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In the 1960s, Tanzanian student Erasto Mpemba and his teacher published an article with the title "Cool" in the journal Physics Education (Mpemba, E. B. - Osborne, D. G.: Cool?. In: Physics Education, vol.4, 1969, pp. 172-175.). In this…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-05 Marek Balazovic , Boris Tomasik

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

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 present results of a simulation study of inelastic hard-disks vibrated in a vertical container. An Event-Driven Molecular Dynamics method is developed for studying the onset of convection. Varying the relevant parameters (inelasticity,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniela Paolotti , Alain Barrat , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Andrea Puglisi

Effect of small additive molecules on the structural relaxation of polymer melts is investigated via molecular dynamics simulations. At a constant external pressure and a fixed number concentration of added molecules, the variation of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-30 Elias M. Zirdehi , Fathollah Varnik

Ergodicity-breaking and slow relaxation are intriguing aspects of nonequilibrium dynamics both in classical and in quantum settings. These phenomena are typically associated with phase transitions, e.g. the emergence of metastable regimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Federico Carollo , Antonio Lasanta , Igor Lesanovsky

The quantum Mpemba effect in open quantum systems has been extensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon remains elusive. In this paper, we conduct an analytical investigation of the dissipative dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 J. W. Dong , H. F. Mu , M. Qin , H. T. Cui

In order to understand the long known anomalies in the composition dependence of diffusion and viscosity of binary mixtures, we introduce here two new models and carry out extensive molecular dynamic simulations. In these models, the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arnab Mukherjee , Goundla Srinivas , Biman Bagchi

When a cup of hot coffee is suddenly put into a cold environment, it cools down as a function of time $t$ until the internal temperature $T_\text{int}$ of the coffee equals the external ambient temperature $T_\text{ext}$. This instantaneous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-14 Hartmut Löwen

Quantum Mpemba effect occurs when a quantum system, residing far away from the steady state, relaxes faster than a relatively nearer state. We look for the presence of this highly counterintuitive effect in the relaxation dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-29 Pitambar Bagui , Arijit Chatterjee , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

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

We investigate memory effects in the spin-boson model using a recently proposed measure for non-Markovian behavior based on the information exchange between an open system and its environment. Employing the numerical exact multilayer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Sebastian Wenderoth , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Michael Thoss

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of entanglement fluctuations in the $\nu=1$ Quantum Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process, a free-fermion chain with hopping amplitudes that are stochastic in time but homogeneous in space. Previous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Angelo Russotto , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Vincenzo Alba

The interplay between symmetries and entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of an intense multidisciplinary research effort. Here we introduce a setting where these questions can be characterised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Alessandro Foligno , Pasquale Calabrese , Bruno Bertini

This letter highlights the entropy exchange phenomenon in a coupled binary inter-correlating system following Haldane's non-linear statistical correlation. A unique coupling between a classical and a quantum-like system at the marginal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Projesh Kumar Roy

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

The multivariable theory of nucleation [N. V. Alekseechkin, J. Chem. Phys. 124, 124512 (2006)] is applied to the droplet nucleation in a supersaturated single-component vapor; the droplet volume V, temperature T, and volume change rate…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nikolay V. Alekseechkin

Despite the fact that the theory of mixtures has been part of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and engineering for a long time, it is far from complete. While it is well formulated and tested in the case of mechanical equilibrium (where only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-01 Petr Vágner , Michal Pavelka , Jürgen Fuhrmann , Václav Klika

We studied the miscibility of two dipolar quantum gases in the limit of zero temperature. The system under study is composed by a mixture of two Bose gases with dominant dipolar interaction in a two-dimensional harmonic confinement. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-23 Sergi Pradas , Jordi Boronat

Recently, interesting non-monotonic time evolution has been pointed out in the experiments by J\"onsson, {\it et al.} and Jonsson {\it et.al.} and also in the numerical simulation by Takayama and Hukushima where the magnetic susceptibility…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-08-13 Seiji Miyashita , Shu Tanaka , Masaki Hirano