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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

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

Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems has attracted increasing attention owing to a variety of intriguing phenomena absent in equilibrium physics. A prominent example is the quantum Mpemba effect, where subsystem symmetry is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

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 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

An accurate experimental investigation on the Mpemba effect (that is, the freezing of initially hot water before cold one) is carried out, showing that in the adiabatic cooling of water a relevant role is played by supercooling as well as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Esposito , R. De Risi , L. Somma

The quantum Mpemba effect is the counter-intuitive non-equilibrium phenomenon wherein the dynamic restoration of a broken symmetry occurs more rapidly when the initial state exhibits a higher degree of symmetry breaking. The effect has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-19 Shion Yamashika , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

Via molecular dynamics simulations we study ICE formation in the TIP4P/Ice model that is known to describe structure and dynamics in various phases of WATER accurately. For this purpose well equilibrated configurations from different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Soumik Ghosh , Purnendu Pathak , Sohini Chatterjee , Subir K. Das

The quantum Mpemba effect (ME) in Markovian systems is conventionally explained by a smaller overlap between the initial state and the slowest decay mode (SDM). Such state, initially farther away from equilibrium or steady state, relaxes…

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

The Quantum Mpemba Effect (QME) -- the counter-intuitive phenomenon where states further from equilibrium can relax faster than those closer to it -- challenges standard expectations of quantum thermalization. In this work, we introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

Understanding relaxation dynamics in open quantum systems is a central problem in nonequilibrium quantum physics. Here we investigate the quantum Mpemba effect in the spin-boson model. In the weak-coupling Markovian regime we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. Chirico , G. Di Bello , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

We study the thermalization dynamics of a quantum system embedded in an incommensurate potential and coupled to a Markovian thermal reservoir. The dephasing induced by the bath drives the system toward an infinite-temperature steady state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Mingdi Xu , Zijun Wei , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Lei Pan

We present results from Molecular Dynamics simulations of the thermal glass transition in a dense polymer melt. In previous work we compared the simulation data with the idealized version of mode coupling theory (MCT) and found that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Christoph Bennemann , Wolfgang Paul , J"org Baschnagel , Kurt Binder

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

Anomalous thermalization, particularly the crossings of temperature trajectories from different initial states termed Mpemba crossings (MPCs), have intrigued scientists for decades. While recent studies in quantum systems suggest that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Xuanhua Wang , Jie Su , Jin Wang

Quantum thermodynamics is a promising route to unambiguous detections of Majorana bound states. Being fundamentally different from quantum transport, this approach reveals unique Majorana thermodynamic behavior and deepens our insight into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Sergey Smirnov

The historical Mpemba effect involves a first-order phase transition. This has prompted the experimental realization of microscopic proxies in the form of a colloidal particle trapped in an asymmetric double well, for which the Mpemba…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yue Liu , Tan Van Vu , Raphaël Chétrite , Frédéric van Wijland , Hisao Hayakawa

Two conducting quantum systems coupled only via interactions can exhibit the phenomenon of Coulomb drag, in which a current passed through one layer can pull a current along in the other. However, in systems with particle-hole symmetry --…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-16 William Berdanier , Thomas Scaffidi , Joel E. Moore

Understanding the thermal conductivity of polymers under high-pressure conditions is essential for a range of applications, from aerospace and deep-sea engineering to common lubricants. However, the complex relationship between pressure,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-12 Otavio Higino Moura de Alencar , James Mu , Marcus Müller , Debashish Mukherji
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