Quantum speed limits: from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to optimal quantum control

S Deffner, S Campbell - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
One of the most widely known building blocks of modern physics is Heisenberg's
indeterminacy principle. Among the different statements of this fundamental property of the …

Attosecond chronoscopy of photoemission

R Pazourek, S Nagele, J Burgdörfer - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
Recent advances in the generation of well-characterized subfemtosecond laser pulses have
opened up unpredicted opportunities for the real-time observation of ultrafast electronic …

30 years in: Quo vadis generalized uncertainty principle?

P Bosso, GG Luciano, L Petruzziello… - Classical and Quantum …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
According to a number of arguments in quantum gravity, both model-dependent and model-
independent, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is modified when approaching the Planck …

Unifying quantum and classical speed limits on observables

LP García-Pintos, SB Nicholson, JR Green… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
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 …

Complex absorbing potentials

JG Muga, JP Palao, B Navarro, IL Egusquiza - Physics Reports, 2004 - Elsevier
We review the construction and use of complex potentials in reactive scattering and other
molecular collisions to calculate continuum quantities (such as state-to-state transition …

Tunneling time, the Hartman effect, and superluminality: A proposed resolution of an old paradox

HG Winful - Physics Reports, 2006 - Elsevier
The issue of tunneling time is replete with controversy and paradoxes. The controversy
stems from the fact that many tunneling time definitions seem to predict superluminal …

What will it take to observe processes in'real time'?

SR Leone, CW McCurdy, J Burgdörfer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Even for simple systems, the interpretations of new attosecond measurements are
complicated and provide only a glimpse of their potential. Nonetheless, the lasting impact …

Attosecond science and the tunnelling time problem

AS Landsman, U Keller - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The question of how long it takes a particle to tunnel through a potential barrier has been a
subject of intense theoretical debate for the last 80 years. In this decade of attosecond …

Quantum speed limits across the quantum-to-classical transition

B Shanahan, A Chenu, N Margolus, A Del Campo - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Quantum speed limits set an upper bound to the rate at which a quantum system can evolve.
Adopting a phase-space approach, we explore quantum speed limits across the quantum-to …

[BOOK][B] The problem of time

E Anderson - 2017 - Springer
This book concerns the foundations of Quantum Gravity, in particular from a conceptual point
of view. It provides a self-contained introduction to this topic, resting on particular features of …