Quantum asymmetry and coherence are genuinely quantum resources that are essential to realize quantum advantage in information technologies. However, all quantum processes are fundamentally constrained by quantum speed limits, which raises the question of the corresponding bounds on the rate of consumption of asymmetry and coherence. In the present work, we derive a formulation of the quantum speed limit for observables in terms of the trace-norm asymmetry of the time-dependent quantum state relative to the observable. This quantum speed limit can be directly observed in experiment through weak-value measurement and provides a lower bound to the quantum Fisher information about the parameter conjugate to the observable. It can be further related to quantum coherence relative to the eigenbasis of the observable. We obtain a complementary relation for the speeds of three mutually unbiased observables for a single qubit. As an application, we derive a notion of a quantum thermodynamic speed limit.

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• Quantum control
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