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Loosely speaking, the Mpemba effect appears when hotter systems cool sooner or, in a more abstract way, when systems further from equilibrium relax faster. In this paper, we investigate the Mpemba effect in a molecular gas with nonlinear…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-05-31 Alberto Megías , Andrés Santos , Antonio Prados

The highly complicated nature of far from equilibrium systems can lead to a complete breakdown of the physical intuition developed in equilibrium. A famous example of this is the Mpemba effect, which states that non-equilibrium states may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-03 Colin Rylands , Katja Klobas , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Sara Murciano , Bruno Bertini

I suggest that the origin of the Mpemba effect (the freezing of hot water before cold) is freezing-point depression by solutes, either gaseous or solid, whose solubility decreases with increasing temperature so that they are removed when…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 J. I. Katz

The Mpemba effect is a fingerprint of the anomalous relaxation phenomenon wherein an initially hotter system equilibrates faster than an initially colder system when both are quenched to the same low temperature. Experiments on a single…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Apurba Biswas , R. Rajesh , Arnab Pal

For quicker formation of ice, before inserting inside a refrigerator, heating up of a body of water can be beneficial. We report first observation of a counterpart of this intriguing fact, referred to as the Mpemba effect (ME), during…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-07 Nalina Vadakkayil , Subir K. Das

We demonstrate the quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot coupled to two reservoirs, described by the Anderson model. We show that the system temperatures starting from two different initial values (hot and cold), cross each other at finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-25 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

When a hot system cools down faster than an equivalent cold one, it exhibits the Mpemba Effect. This counterintuitive phenomenon was observed in several systems including water, magnetic alloys and polymers. In most experiments the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-07 Gianluca Teza , Ran Yaacoby , Oren Raz

We review the Mpemba effect, where intially hot water freezes faster than initially cold water. While the effect appears impossible at first sight, it has been seen in numerous experiments, was reported on by Aristotle, Francis Bacon, and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Monwhea Jeng

Despite extensive research, the fundamental physical mechanisms underlying the Mpemba effect, a phenomenon where a substance cools faster after initially being heated, remain elusive. Although historically linked with water, the Mpemba…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-26 Andrés Santos

The phenomenon where a quantum system can be exponentially accelerated to its stationary state has been referred to as the Quantum Mpemba Effect (QMpE). Due to its analogy with the classical Mpemba effect, hot water freezes faster than cold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 J. Furtado , Alan C. Santos

The Mpemba effect refers to the surprising observation where, under certain conditions, a far-from-equilibrium state can relax toward equilibrium faster than a state closer to equilibrium. A paradigmatic example is provided by the curious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

The Mpemba effect occurs when two samples at different initial temperatures evolve in such a way that the temperatures cross each other during the relaxation towards equilibrium. In this paper we show the emergence of a Mpemba-like effect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-17 Rubén Gómez González , Nagi Khalil , Vicente Garzó

Most of our intuition about the behavior of physical systems is shaped by observations at or near thermal equilibrium. However, even a thermal quench can lead to states far from thermal equilibrium, where counterintuitive, anomalous effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gianluca Teza , John Bechhoefer , Antonio Lasanta , Oren Raz , Marija Vucelja

The Mpemba effect, in which a system initially farther from equilibrium relaxes faster than a closer one, is often associated with nonlinear or far-from-equilibrium dynamics. We show that this effect can arise entirely within the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Philippe Ben-Abdallah

The Mpemba effect denotes an anomalous relaxation phenomenon where a system initially at a hot temperature cools faster than a system that starts at a less elevated temperature. We introduce an isothermal analog of this effect for a system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-02 Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert

The behavior of systems far from equilibrium is often complex and unpredictable, challenging and sometimes overturning the physical intuition derived from equilibrium scenarios. One striking example of this is the Mpemba effect, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Stefano Longhi

We investigate the Mpemba effect in a dilute sheared granular gas with a velocity-dependent restitution coefficient. Using kinetic theory based on Grad's moment method, we analyze the relaxation dynamics following a sudden change in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-19 Makoto R. Kikuchi , Yuria Kobayashi , Satoshi Takada

We explore the role of activity in the occurrence of the Mpemba effect within a system of an active colloid diffusing in a potential landscape devoid of metastable minimum. The Mpemba effect is characterized by a phenomenon where a hotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Apurba Biswas , R. Rajesh

We report anomalous heating in a colloidal system, the first observation of the inverse Mpemba effect, where an initially cold system heats up faster than an identical warm system coupled to the same thermal bath. For an overdamped,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Avinash Kumar , Raphael Chetrite , John Bechhoefer

The Mpemba effect has initially been noticed in macroscopic systems -- namely that hot water can freeze faster than cold water -- but recently its extension to open quantum systems has attracted significant attention. This phenomenon can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Juliane Graf , Janine Splettstoesser , Juliette Monsel