Researchers discover work fluctuations as a control resource in critical quantum systems, deriving the first saturatable speed limits for boundary CFT protocols—enabling faster driving of quantum impurity and superconducting platforms.

Researchers discover work fluctuations as a control resource in critical quantum systems, deriving the first saturatable speed limits for boundary CFT protocols—enabling faster driving of quantum impurity and superconducting platforms.
Critical quantum systems compress exponentially many measurement outcomes into a single conformal coordinate that predicts remaining entanglement, revealing universal Luttinger-liquid dynamics.