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Energy–time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems
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We derive generalizations of the energy-time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems. Using a geometric approach based on the Bures length between mixed quantum states, we obtain explicit expressions for the quantum speed limit time, valid for arbitrary initial and final quantum states and arbitrary driving protocols. Our results establish the fundamental limit on the rate of evolution of generic quantum systems.
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The paper derives generalized energy–time uncertainty relations and quantum speed limit times for driven closed quantum systems using a geometric Bures-length approach. It obtains Mandelstam–Tamm and Margolus–Levitin type bounds valid for arbitrary unitary driving, with mixed-state extensions via purification.
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- A Mandelstam–Tamm-type relation is derived for arbitrary initial and final mixed quantum states and arbitrary time-dependent Hamiltonians, with the time-averaged energy variance \(\Delta E_\tau = (1/\tau)\int_0^\tau dt\,(\langle H_t^2\rangle-\langle H_t\rangle^2)^{1/2}\).
- A Margolus–Levitin-type bound is derived first for pure initial states with ground-state energy set to zero, then extended to mixed states by purification; for arbitrary driving the generalized bound uses the time average of nondiagonal matrix elements \(|\langle \psi_0|H_t U_t|\psi_0\rangle|\).
- The Margolus–Levitin-type bound has prefactor \(4/\pi^2\), which the authors note is smaller than the prefactor \(2/\pi\) obtained numerically in Giovannetti, Lloyd, and Maccone.
- The quantum speed limit time depends strongly on the driving: it is inversely proportional to mean energy or energy spread, can be reduced exponentially if mean energy increases exponentially, can increase if driving decreases energy, and vanishes as \(\hbar \to 0\).
Methods
- Theoretical derivation using the Bures length/angle between density operators, quantum fidelity, the Braunstein–Caves Bures metric, Fisher information, the von Neumann equation, and a triangle-type inequality.
- The Mandelstam–Tamm bound is derived for arbitrary mixed states and arbitrary time-dependent Hamiltonians; the Margolus–Levitin bound assumes an initial pure state and \(E_g=0\), then uses purification for mixed states.
- The appendix treats time-independent and time-dependent Hamiltonians, including the condition \([H_t,H_0]=0\) for one form of the time-dependent bound; no experimental data are analyzed.
Limitations
- Stated: the Margolus–Levitin derivation assumes an initial pure state for simplicity, handles mixed states via purification, and sets the ground-state energy to zero.
- Stated: for time-dependent Hamiltonians, the time-independent-form Margolus–Levitin inequality remains valid only if \([H_t,H_0]=0\) for all \(t\in[0,\tau]\); otherwise a more general expression with nondiagonal matrix elements is required.
- Stated/evident: the derivative of the Bures length may change sign later, requiring care in deriving inequalities, and the paper corrects prior geometric Margolus–Levitin derivations; the work is purely theoretical with no experimental validation reported.
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“They showed that the Krotov algorithm of quantum optimal control theory fails to converge when the duration of the process is chosen below the quantum speed limit time.”
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The paper states on p. 1 that, when the process duration is fixed below the quantum speed limit, optimal control fails to converge. Its Landau–Zener results on p. 2 report that the Krotov algorithm’s infidelity does not converge to zero below that limit. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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“On the other hand, we note that the quantum speed limit time can also be increased when the energy of the system is decreased by the driving [41].”
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The Discussion describes a driven harmonic oscillator being cooled as energy is extracted from it. It does not discuss quantum speed limits or say that extracting energy increases a quantum speed-limit time (searched: quantum speed limit, evolution time, decreased energy). (LLM, conf=0.82)
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“holds true if [ H t , H 0 ] = 0 , ∀ t ∈ [0 , τ ].”
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“Summing up, we have obtained the quantum speed limit time τ QSL , which expresses the generalized energy-time uncertainty relation for arbitrary quantum unitary processes, in the generic form,”
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“Note that Eq. (8) also implies that the Fisher information f t is bounded from above by the variance of the energy of the system.”
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“Equation (11) is a Mandelstam-Tamm uncertainty relation valid for arbitrary initial and final mixed quantum states and arbitrary time-dependent Hamiltonians.”
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“Expression (37) is a generalized Margolus-Levitin uncertainty relation valid for arbitrary angles between initial and final pure states and arbitrary external driving.”
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“In contrast to Eq. (16), the quantum speed limit time (38) depends on the square of the Bures angle.”
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“Our results establish the fundamental limit on the rate of evolution of closed quantum systems.”
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“Our result provides the fundamental limit on the evolution rate of closed quantum systems, in particular quantum computation and information processing devices.”
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“More importantly, the quantum speed limit time is inversely proportional to the energy of the system (mean energy or energy spread).”
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“The generalization to arbitrary mixed quantum states can be done invoking purification and the mean energy becomes E τ = (1 /τ ) ∫ τ 0 dt | tr { ρ 0 H t }| , cf. also appendix.”
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“The above derivation can be extended to arbitrary mixed states by interpreting pure states as purifications of mixed states in an enlarged Hilbert space [35]. Specifically, by choosing the purification that maximizes the fidelity between two density operators, the Margolus-Levitin inequality also applies to the purifications [18].”
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“Equation (30) is the Margolus-Levitin bound for quantum systems evolving under time-independent Hamiltonians, valid for arbitrary angles between initial and final states; it corrects previously published versions [18, 43].”
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“Equation (38) generalizes the Margolus-Levitin-type bound introduced by Giovannetti, Lloyd and Maccone for time-independent systems [15] (note that the numerical prefactor 4 /π 2 in Eq. (38) is smaller than the prefactor 2 /π obtained numerically in Ref. [15]).”
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“As a consequence, the minimal quantum evolution time from initial to final state can be estimated from below by”
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“where E τ = (1 /τ ) ∫ τ 0 dt |〈 ψ 0 | H t | ψ 0 〉| is the time-averaged mean energy with respect to the initial state.”
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“In general, the instantaneous eigenbasis of H t is time-dependent. As a result, the estimations in Eqs. (25)-(27) do not necessarily hold true.”
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“Note that d t L is positive at short times, since L is initially zero (0 ≤ L ≤ π/ 2). However, the derivative may change sign later on, and special care should be taken when deriving inequalities (this fact seems not have been noticed by Jones and Kok [18]).”
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“The quantum speed limit time gives the fundamental limit on the rate of evolution of quantum systems [20, 21, 22].”
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“According to Braunstein and Caves, the Bures metric for two infinitesimally close density operators, ρ ′ = ρ + dρ , is [37] (see also Ref. [38]),”
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“The quantum speed limit time, therefore, strongly depends on the driving protocol: the more energy is pumped into a system and the more it is distributed among different states, the faster the system can evolve.”
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“Wootters' statistical distance is the only Riemannian metric, up to a constant factor, which is invariant under all unitary transformations.”
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“The Bures length (3) has been shown to be a natural generalization of Wootters' statistical distance for arbitrary mixed quantum states [37].”
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“However, as discussed by e.g. Landau and Lifshitz [42], if a classical system is driven so rapidly that the driving frequency becomes comparable to the typical transition frequency between quantum states, quantum effects can no longer be neglected and have hence to be taken into account.”
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“We first remark, as one might expect, that the quantum speed limit time is reduced when the Bures length between initial and final states is smaller, indicating that the closer the two states, the less time is needed to go from one state to the other.”
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“Whereas τ QSL is determined by the initial energy in the time-independent case, it is set by the time-averaged mean energy or energy variance in the case of driven quantum systems.”
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“Due to the unitary dynamics the system then remains in a pure state at all times.”
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“Specifically, we derive the quantum speed limit time for generic mixed states with arbitrary angle and for arbitrary timedependent unitary driving.”
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For the Margolus-Levitin bound, the driven quantum system starts in a pure state.
“For simplicity, and without loss of generality, we assume that the driven quantum system starts in a pure state ρ 0 = | ψ 0 〉〈 ψ 0 | .”
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The ground state energy is set to zero, E_g = 0.
“We additionally set the ground state energy to zero, E g = 0 [14].”
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The time evolution of the quantum system obeys the time-dependent Schrödinger equation.
“The time evolution of the quantum system obeys the time-dependent Schr¨ odinger equation,”
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The system's Hamiltonian is driven by arbitrary time-dependent parameters during time τ.
“In the following, we consider quantum systems whose Hamiltonians H t are driven by arbitrary timedependent parameters during time τ .”
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“The usual QSL is tight for unitary dynamics of pure states [3].However, it becomes rather loose for mixed states.”
From Tight, robust, and feasible quantum speed limits for open dynamics (2019) · cites this paper as [3]
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“The distance term in many QSLs requires the square root of the initial and final states, thus the solution of the eigenvalue problem for the initial state ρ and final state σ [3,30,33,48].”
From Tight, robust, and feasible quantum speed limits for open dynamics (2019) · cites this paper as [3]
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“For isolated systems it quickly became clear that the Bures angle (25) would do the job [66,67]”
From Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control (2017) · cites this paper as [67]
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“Since ℓ constitutes the shortest path connecting quantum states, the statistical distance (67) serves as the natural choice to define the maximal quantum speed [60,67,75,76,117].”
From Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control (2017) · cites this paper as [67]
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“Hence, the relation to the quantum speed limit becomes apparent, since loosely speaking the quantum speed limit time sets a lower bound on the action E τ QSL /2 [67].”
From Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control (2017) · cites this paper as [67]
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“Such infinitely powerful driving, however, would be in conflict with so-called quantum speed limits which bound the evolution time by the inverse mean energy (Margolus and Levitin 1998), or, alternatively, its variance (Mandelstam and Tamm 1945) and apply to time-dependent unitary evolution between any two quantum states (Deffner and Lutz 2013).”
From Quantacell: powerful charging of quantum batteries (2015) · cites this paper as Deffner and Lutz 2013
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§ Energy-time uncertainty relation for driven quantum systems · p. 2
“∆ E = ( 〈 H 〉 2 -〈 H 2 〉 ) 1 / 2”
§ 1. Mandelstam-Tamm bound · p. 4
“∆ E τ = (1 /τ ) ∫ τ 0 dt ( 〈 H 2 t 〉 -〈 H t 〉 2 ) 1 / 2”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Deffner, S., & Lutz, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Augsburg (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Deffner, Sebastian
- Venue
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Publisher
- IOP Publishing
- Published
- 2013-07-29
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 33
- Pages
- 335302
- ISSN
- 1751-8113 (ISSN-L)
- 1751-8121
- OpenAlex
- W2161551823
- Semantic Scholar
- 856d66591e01e1d5d7aeb0c7c06e0cfdec753e28
- Cited by
- 199
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 8.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
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- Locations
- Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (publishedVersion)
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
- Funders
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Keywords
- time-energy uncertainty relation, driven quantum systems, quantum speed limit, mixed quantum states, closed quantum systems, quantum state evolution
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