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Maximum speed of quantum gate operation

Lev B. Levitin, Tommaso Toffoli, Zachary Walton

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0211167

Abstract

We consider a quantum gate, driven by a general time-dependent Hamiltonian, that complements the state of a qubit and then adds to it an arbitrary phase shift. It is shown that the minimum operation time of the gate is tau = (h/4E)(1+2 theta/pi), where h is Planck's constant, E is the average over time of the quantum-mechanical average energy, and theta is the phase shift modulo pi.

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