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We study a one-dimensional quasiperiodic tight-binding model with simultaneous off-diagonal (hopping) and diagonal (onsite) modulations. Using the inverse participation ratio and the wave-packet centroid, we construct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-27 Ao Zhou , Feng Lu , Shujie Cheng , Gao Xianlong

We study the warming process of a semi-infinite cylindrical Ising lattice initially ordered and coupled at the boundary to a heat reservoir. The adoption of a proper microcanonical dynamics allows a detailed study of the time evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Elena Agliari , Mario Casartelli , Alessandro Vezzani

We show that there are two distinct mechanisms that can cause the symmetry-restoration Mpemba effect in spin chains with \textit{weakly broken} integrability, such that the asymptotic equilibration is diffusive, but the lifetime of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Adam J. McRoberts

The properties of phase-separated systems, e.g. manganites, close to a I order phase transition between charge-ordered insulator and ferromagnetic metal, are usually described by the percolation picture. We argue that the correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Khomskii , D. Khomskii

The glass transition GT is usually thought of as a structural arrest that occurs during the cooling of a liquid, or sometimes a plastic crystal, trapping a metastable state of the system before it can recrystallize to stabler forms1. This…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shuai Wei , Isabella Gallino , Ralf Busch , C. Austen Angell

When a magnetic field is forced to evolve on a time scale $\tau_{ev}$, as by footpoint motions driving the solar corona or non-axisymmetric instabilities in tokamaks, the magnetic field lines undergo large-scale changes in topology on a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Allen Boozer

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

A perturbed system relaxes towards an equilibrium given by a minimum in the potential energy landscape. This often occurs by thermally activated jumps over metastable states. The corresponding dynamics is named creep and follows Arrhenius'…

The quantum Mpemba effect (QMpE) describes an anomalous thermalization phenomenon in which quantum states initially far from equilibrium can approach thermal equilibrium faster than states that begin closer to it. While this effect has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zi-Shen Li , Yuxiang Yang

The paper studies the spatial variation of the magnetization in a nonconducting magnetic sample with an excess number of magnons in comparison to the equilibrium. The phenomenon is considered using the Landau-Lifshits equation with…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-16 V. I. Sugakov

The Empemba effect (ME) is investigated in the context of ubiquitous quantum oscillating and two-level systems (TLS) using a novel approach (DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad97f1). Exact reduced density matrices for various initial states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fardin Kheirandish , Narges Cheraghpour , Adam Moradian

The historical Mpemba effect involves a first-order phase transition. This has prompted the experimental realization of microscopic proxies in the form of a colloidal particle trapped in an asymmetric double well, for which the Mpemba…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yue Liu , Tan Van Vu , Raphaël Chétrite , Frédéric van Wijland , Hisao Hayakawa

In equilibrium, the number of conduction electrons in a solid substance depends on the conformation of the atoms in the substance. When a magnetic field is applied, it takes time for the system to come to a new equilibrium with a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-06 Zeev Vager

We show that temperature of a current (I = 20 mA) carrying manganite (Nd0.5Ca0.5Mn0.93Ni0.07O3) in presence of a magnetic field (H) decreases abruptly as much as deltaT = 45 K (7 K) accompanied by a step like decrease in magnetoresistance…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Rebello , R. Mahendiran

Prethermalization of the equation of state and the kinetic temperature to their equilibrium values occurs on time scales dramatically shorter than the thermal equilibration time. This is a crucial ingredient for the understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Berges , S. Borsanyi , C. Wetterich

Equations describing plasma equilibria are derived from the total energy of the system. The MHD equilibrium is shown to hold even for systems where the magnetic field may locally vanish. Through conservation of helicity, confinement is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 John Hedditch

Complex and even non-monotonic responses to external control can be found in many thermodynamic systems. In such systems, non-equilibrium shortcuts can rapidly drive the system from an initial state to a desired final state. One example is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-28 Supraja S. Chittari , Zhiyue Lu

Hysteresis in cycling through first-order phase transitions in vortex matter, akin to the well-studied phenomenon of supercooling of water, has been discussed in literature. Hysteresis can be seen while varying either temperature T or…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Chaddah , S. B. Roy

Molecular dynamics simulations are performed for a supercooled simple liquid with changing the system size from N=108 to $10^4$ to examine possible finite-size effects. Although almost no systematic deviation is detected in the static pair…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Kang Kim , Ryoichi Yamamoto

Magnetic refrigeration exploits the magnetocaloric effect which is the entropy change upon application and removal of magnetic fields in materials, providing an alternate path for refrigeration other than the conventional gas cycles. While…