Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities

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Main Authors: Budiyono, Agung, Deffner, Sebastian
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Published: 2026
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Deffner, Sebastian
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Deffner, Sebastian
contents Any protocol to process quantum information has to conclude with a measurement, aimed at producing a specific set of probabilities of measurement outcomes. In this work, we investigate the time, energy and importantly the genuine quantum resources necessary for transforming a set of measurement probabilities generated by a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM), to a target set of measurement probabilities. To this end, we first show that the speed of measurement probabilities, defined as the average rate of the surprisal of measurement outcomes, is constrained by the genuine quantum fluctuations contained in the measurement probabilities. Interestingly, this quantum speed limit can act as a witness for bipartite quantum correlations by selecting an optimal local projective measurement. Furthermore, we obtain a minimum time to transform an initial measurement probabilities to a target measurement probabilities, and apply this result to analyzing the cost of generating a local athermality in terms of genuine quantum uncertainty.
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spellingShingle Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities
Budiyono, Agung
Deffner, Sebastian
Quantum Physics
Any protocol to process quantum information has to conclude with a measurement, aimed at producing a specific set of probabilities of measurement outcomes. In this work, we investigate the time, energy and importantly the genuine quantum resources necessary for transforming a set of measurement probabilities generated by a positive-operator-valued measure (POVM), to a target set of measurement probabilities. To this end, we first show that the speed of measurement probabilities, defined as the average rate of the surprisal of measurement outcomes, is constrained by the genuine quantum fluctuations contained in the measurement probabilities. Interestingly, this quantum speed limit can act as a witness for bipartite quantum correlations by selecting an optimal local projective measurement. Furthermore, we obtain a minimum time to transform an initial measurement probabilities to a target measurement probabilities, and apply this result to analyzing the cost of generating a local athermality in terms of genuine quantum uncertainty.
title Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23160