arXiv · 2605.16935
Exact Entanglement-Depth Speed Frontier for Complete Quantum Charging
Abstract
Complete quantum charging provides a sharp setting in which to ask how much multipartite entanglement is forced by speed itself. For a closed \(N\)-qubit battery evolving from \(\ket{\downarrow}^{\otimes N}\) to \(\ket{\uparrow}^{\otimes N}\) under a time-independent Hamiltonian, we exactly solve the pure-state depth-constrained speed problem. If the realized trajectory has entanglement depth at most \(k\), then the largest possible QSL-normalized rate \(\eta=\tau_{\rm QSL}/T\) is \(\eta_{\max}(k)=\lceil N/k\rceil^{-1/2}\). Conversely, an observed rate \(\eta\) certifies trajectory entanglement depth at least \(\bigl\lceil N/\lfloor \eta^{-2}\rfloor\bigr\rceil\). The mechanism is block orthogonalization: under a fixed product partition, complete charging forces all blocks to orthogonalize simultaneously, and the quantum speed limit converts this counting constraint into the speed bound. Balanced cluster-flip evolutions saturate the bound, establishing an exact integer staircase frontier. Thus fast complete charging cannot be explained by many small independently charging blocks; in particular, crossing the threshold \(\eta>1/\sqrt2\) certifies, for \(N>1\), the generation of genuine \(N\)-partite entanglement.
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Wenlong Sun, Gang Lu, Yuanfeng Jin. 2026-05-16. Exact Entanglement-Depth Speed Frontier for Complete Quantum Charging. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16935
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