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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…

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A magnetic field was recently shown to enhance field-parallel heat conduction in a strongly correlated plasma whereas cross-field conduction is reduced. Here we show that in such plasmas, the magnetic field has the additional effect of…

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Transport properties, such as viscosity and thermal conduction, of the hot intergalactic plasma in clusters of galaxies, are largely unknown. While for laboratory plasmas these characteristics are derived from the gas density and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-18 I. Zhuravleva , E. Churazov , A. A. Schekochihin , S. W. Allen , A. Vikhlinin , N. Werner

A spinning gas, heated adiabatically through axial compression, is known to exhibit a rotation-dependent heat capacity. However, as equilibrium is approached, a new effect is identified here wherein the temperature does not grow…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-19 V. I. Geyko , N. J. Fisch

We explore the effects of anisotropic thermal conduction, anisotropic pressure, and magnetic field strength on the hot accretion flows around black holes by solving the axisymmetric, steady-state magnetohydrodynamic equations. The…

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Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS) is a central collective phenomenon in active matter, theoretically established in the overdamped regime. We discover that the dynamical origin of MIPS is fundamentally altered by inertia, which…

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In striking contrast to equilibrium systems, inertia can profoundly alter the structure of active systems. Here, we demonstrate that driven systems can exhibit effective equilibrium-like states with increasing particle inertia, despite…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-23 Ahmad K. Omar , Katherine Klymko , Trevor GrandPre , Phillip L. Geissler , John F. Brady

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…

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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

We address the problem of the so-called ``granular gases'', i.e. gases of massive particles in rapid movement undergoing inelastic collisions. We introduce a class of models of driven granular gases for which the stationary state is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Puglisi , V. Loreto , U. Marini Bettolo Marconi , A. Vulpiani

Nature's most powerful high-energy sources are capable of accelerating particles to high energy and radiate it away on extremely short timescales, even shorter than the light crossing time of the system. It is yet unclear what physical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Luca Comisso , Lorenzo Sironi

We use hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy clusters and groups to study the effect of pre-heating on the entropy structure of the ICM. Our simulations account for non-gravitational heating of the gas either by imposing a minimum entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Borgani , A. Finoguenov , S. T. Kay , T. J. Ponman , V. Springel , P. Tozzi , G. M. Voit

We study fluidized granular gases in a stationary state determined by the balance between an external driving and the bulk dissipation. The two considered situations are inspired by recent experiments, where the gravity plays a major role…

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We study a dilute granular gas immersed in a thermal bath made of smaller particles with masses not much smaller than the granular ones in this work. Granular particles are assumed to have inelastic and hard interactions, losing energy in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Alberto Megías , Andrés Santos

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

Disordered granular systems, at temperatures where charging effects are important, are studied, by means of an effective medium approximation. The intragrain charging energy leads to insulating behavior at low temperatures, with a well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. P. Arovas , F. Guinea , C. Herrero , P. San Jose

Galaxy interactions can disturb gas in galactic discs, compress it, excite it, and enhance star formation. An intriguing system likely consisting of two interacting galaxies overlapping on the line-of-sight was previously studied through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Anaëlle Halle , Barbara Mazzilli Ciraulo , Daniel Maschmann , Anne-Laure Melchior , Françoise Combes

A binary fluid mixture in contact with lateral particle reservoirs is considered. By imposing different particle concentrations in these reservoirs, the system can be maintained under controlled non-equilibrium conditions. Previous…

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