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Closed chaotic quantum systems relax after a quench into a Gibbs ensemble. At late times, the relaxation speed is determined by their conservation laws and hydrodynamics. As a result, there exist pairs of initial states which thermalize to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Thomas Martin Müller , Silvia Pappalardi , Rosario Fazio

Observation of the quantum Mpemba effect has spurred much interest in its enabling conditions and its relation to the classical counterpart. Here, we consider weakly open many-body quantum systems initialized in different thermal states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Iris Ulčakar , Rustem Sharipov , Gianluca Lagnese , Zala Lenarčič

A system initially far from equilibrium is expected to take more time to reach equilibrium than a system that was initially closer to equilibrium. The old puzzling observation (also called Mpemba effect) that when a sample of hot water and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-18 P. Chaddah , S. Dash , Kranti Kumar , A. Banerjee

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

The quantum Mpemba effect refers to the phenomenon of a quantum system in an initial state, far away from equilibrium, relaxing much faster than a state comparatively nearer to equilibrium. We experimentally demonstrate that this highly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Arijit Chatterjee , Sakil Khan , Sachin Jain , T S Mahesh

The quicker freezing of hotter water, than a colder sample, when quenched to a common lower temperature, is referred to as the Mpemba effect (ME). While this counter-intuitive fact remains a surprize since long, efforts have begun to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-08 Sohini Chatterjee , Soumik Ghosh , Nalina Vadakkayil , Tanay Paul , Sanat K. Singha , Subir K. Das

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

The Mpemba effect originally referred to the observation that, under certain thermalizing dynamics, initially hotter samples can cool faster than colder ones. This effect has since been generalized to other anomalous relaxation behaviors…

The classical Mpemba effect is the counterintuitive phenomenon where hotter water freezes faster than colder water due to the breakdown of Newton's law of cooling after a sudden temperature quench. The genuine nonequilibrium post-quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Marco Peluso , Reinhold Egger , Andrea Nava

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Tanmay Bhore , Lei Su , Ivar Martin , Aashish A. Clerk , Zlatko Papić

Coherence is an inherently quantum property that deeply affects microscopic processes, including thermalization phenomena. A striking example is the quantum Mpemba effect (QME), in which a system can exhibit anomalous relaxation,…

The Mpemba effect and its inverse can be understood as a result of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In polymers, changes of state are generally non-equilibrium processes. However, the Mpemba effect has been rarely reported in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-28 Jinghua Liu , Jingqing Li , Binyuan Liu , Ian W. Hamley , Shichun Jiang

Despite decades of research, the Mpemba Effect challenges scientists, prompting further investigation and refinement of existing hypotheses. This work uses optical tools such as thermography to analyze and study the Mpemba effect on drops.…

The time evolution of a homogeneous bidisperse granular suspension is studied in the context of the Enskog kinetic equation. The influence of the surrounding viscous gas on the solid particles is modeled via a deterministic viscous drag…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-24 Rubén Gómez González , Vicente Garzó

Unlike most of the research on the Mpemba effect which has focused on verifying the observation that warm water freezes faster than cold water, our work quantitatively investigates the rates at which hot and cold water cool and the point at…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Andrew Wang , Monica Chen , Yanni Vourgourakis , Antonio Nassar

We investigate the quantum Mpemba effect from the perspective of non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics by studying relaxation dynamics of quantum systems coupled to a Markovian heat bath, which are described by Davies maps. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Mattia Moroder , Oisín Culhane , Krissia Zawadzki , John Goold

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 investigate temperature quenches across the reentrant phase transition of the antiferromagnetic Ising model in a magnetic field and show that the strong direct and inverse Mpemba effects arise when quenches terminate in the paramagnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Kristian Blom , Doron Benyamin , Uwe Thiele , Oren Raz , Aljaz Godec

We consider the qubit-qutrit model of self-contained quantum refrigerator and observe the quantum Mpemba effect in its cooling. In this system, the qutrit acts as the refrigerator while the qubit is to be cooled. The entire system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sayan Mondal , Ujjwal Sen

Many systems, when initially placed far from equilibrium, exhibit surprising behavior in their attempt to equilibrate. Striking examples are the Mpemba effect and the cooling-heating asymmetry. These anomalous behaviors can be exploited to…