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The Mpemba effect, where a system initially farther from equilibrium relaxes faster than one closer to equilibrium, has been extensively studied in classical systems and recently explored in quantum settings. While previous studies of the…

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We study the effects of spacetime noncommutativity on the nonequilibrium dynamics of particles in a thermal bath. We show that the noncommutative thermal bath does not suffer from any further IR/UV mixing problem in the sense that all the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Chong-Sun Chu , Chiu Man Ho

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 D. M. Valente , A. O. Caldeira

A particle driven by an external force in a molecular crowding environment - a quiescent bath of other particles, makes their spatial distribution inhomogeneous: the bath particles accumulate in front of the biased particle (BP) and are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-08 Carlos Mejia-Monasterio , Gleb Oshanin

We study the thermodynamic properties of binary Bose mixtures, by developing a beyond mean-field Popov theory which properly includes the effects of quantum and thermal fluctuations in both the density and spin channels. Results for key…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-08 Miki Ota , Stefano Giorgini

The Mpemba effect, where a state farther from equilibrium relaxes faster than one closer to it, is a striking phenomenon in both classical and quantum systems. In open quantum systems, however, the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yaru Liu , Yucheng Wang

We investigate the quantum Mpemba effect in the relaxation of open quantum systems whose effective dynamics is described by Davies maps. We present a class of unitary transformations built from permutation matrices that, when applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emerson Lima Caldas , Diego Paiva Pires

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting self-propelled semi-flexible polymers in contact with a thermal bath. Our intention is to model complex systems of biological interest. We find that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-05-06 Davide Loi , Stefano Mossa , Leticia F. Cugliandolo

We consider the demixing of a binary fluid mixture, under gravity, which is steadily driven into a two phase region by slowly ramping the temperature. We assume, as a first approximation, that the system remains spatially isothermal, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. E. Cates , J. Vollmer , A. Wagner , D. Vollmer

We present the derivation of kinetic formulas modeling the microscopic interaction of a charged particle withing a molecular gas under effect of thermal motion. Both elastic and inelastic processes are taken in account. The results were…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Michele Renda , Iulia Stefania Trandafir

Here we investigate how local properties of particles in a thermal bath influence the thermodynamics of the bath. We utilize nanothermodynamics, based on two postulates: that small systems can be treated self-consistently by coupling to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ralph V. Chamberlin , Michael R. Clark , Vladimiro Mujica , George H. Wolf

We present a Monte Carlo approach to incorporating the effect of thermal fluctuations in field theories of polymeric fluids. This method is applied to a field-theoretic model of a ternary blend of AB diblock copolymers with A and B…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Dominik Düchs , Venkat Ganesan , Glenn H. Fredrickson , Friederike Schmid

Two defect particles that couple to a harmonic chain, acting as common reservoir, can become entangled even when the two defects do not directly interact and the harmonic chain is effectively a thermal reservoir for each individual defect.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 Endre Kajari , Alexander Wolf , Eric Lutz , Giovanna Morigi

We consider a binary fluid mixture, which lies in the one-phase region near the demixing critical point, and study its transport through a capillary tube linking two large reservoirs. We assume that short-range interactions cause…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-21 Youhei Fujitani , Shunsuke Yabunaka

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 hydrodynamic conservation equations and constitutive relations for a binary granular mixture composed of smooth, nearly elastic, hard spheres with non-equipartition energies and different mean velocities are derived. This research is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-28 Yanpei Chen , Yifeng Mei , Wei Wang

Local relaxation after a quench in 1-D quantum many-body systems is a well known and very active problem with rich phenomenology. Except for pathological cases, the local relaxation is accompanied by the local restoration of the symmetries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-14 Konstantinos Chalas , Filiberto Ares , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

We address two central open problems in the theory of anomalous Mpemba-like relaxations: their extension beyond one spatial dimension and their consistent formulation in the thermodynamic limit. Our framework is the antiferromagnetic Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Emilio Pomares , Víctor Martín-Mayor , Antonio Lasanta , Gabriel Álvarez

We investigate the quantum Mpemba effect in a dissipative Dicke model, which consists of a spin-1/2 ensemble coupled to a bosonic mode, which in turn is coupled to a bosonic bath. We derive a sufficient criterion for occurrence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Arunabha Das , Paranjoy Chaki , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

By means of extensive equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations we have investigated, the behavior of the interfacial tension $\gamma$ of two immiscible symmetrical Lennard-Jones fluids. This quantity is studied as function of reduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-15 Enrique Diaz-Herrera , José Alejandre , Guillermo Ramírez-Santiago , F. Forstmann