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Phys. Rev. A 74, 034301 (2006) [3 pages]

Generalization of the Margolus-Levitin bound

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Bartosz Zieliński and Magdalena Zych
Department of Theoretical Physics II, Institute of Physics, University of Łódź, ulica Pomorska 149/153, 90-236 Łódź, Poland

Received 19 May 2006; published 11 September 2006

The Margolus-Levitin lower bound on the minimal time required for a state to be transformed into an orthogonal state is generalized. It is shown that for some initial states the new bound is stronger than the Margolus-Levitin one.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.74.034301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.74.034301
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 03.65.Xp