01577nas a2200157 4500008004100000245006300041210006300104260001300167520107800180100003201258700002401290700002101314700002201335700002501357856003701382 2021 eng d00aUnifying Quantum and Classical Speed Limits on Observables0 aUnifying Quantum and Classical Speed Limits on Observables c8/9/20213 a
The presence of noise or the interaction with an environment can radically change the dynamics of observables of an otherwise isolated quantum system. We derive a bound on the speed with which observables of open quantum systems evolve. This speed limit divides into Mandalestam and Tamm's original time-energy uncertainty relation and a time-information uncertainty relation recently derived for classical systems, generalizing both to open quantum systems. By isolating the coherent and incoherent contributions to the system dynamics, we derive both lower and upper bounds to the speed of evolution. We prove that the latter provide tighter limits on the speed of observables than previously known quantum speed limits, and that a preferred basis of \emph{speed operators} serves to completely characterize the observables that saturate the speed limits. We use this construction to bound the effect of incoherent dynamics on the evolution of an observable and to find the Hamiltonian that gives the maximum coherent speedup to the evolution of an observable.
1 aGarcĂa-Pintos, Luis, Pedro1 aNicholson, Schuyler1 aGreen, Jason, R.1 adel Campo, Adolfo1 aGorshkov, Alexey, V. uhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04261