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The Mpemba effect is a phenomenon in which an initially hotter sample cools sooner. In this paper, we show the emergence of a non-monotonic Mpemba-like effect in a molecular binary mixture immersed in a viscous gas. Namely, a crossover in…

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How do isolated quantum systems approach an equilibrium state? We experimentally and theoretically address this question for a prototypical spin system formed by ultracold atoms prepared in two Rydberg states with different orbital angular…

Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Matthew Gerry , Michael J. Kewming , Dvira Segal

The kinetics of relaxation in quantum systems induced by anomalous fluctuating noise is studied in detail. In this study two processes are considered, as examples: (1) relaxation in two-level system caused by external noise with slowly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Shushin

Time-delayed quantum feedback is a fast and efficient method to control and stabilize few and many-body quantum systems. However, a proper understanding of such systems stays opaque due to the non-Markovian nature of the feedback protocol.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-06 Xin H. H. Zhang , S. H. L. Klapp , A. Metelmann

Random fluctuations caused by environmental noise can lead to decoherence in quantum systems. Exploring and controlling such dissipative processes is both fundamentally intriguing and essential for harnessing quantum systems to gain…

The finite parts of a large, locally interacting many-body system prepared out-of-equilibrium eventually equilibrate. Characterising the underlying mechanisms of this process and its timescales, however, is particularly hard as it requires…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Katja Klobas , Colin Rylands , Bruno Bertini

We study relaxation times, also called mixing times, of quantum many-body systems described by a Lindblad master equation. We in particular study the scaling of the spectral gap with the system length, the so-called dynamical exponent,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-30 Marko Znidaric

The Empemba effect (ME) is investigated in the context of ubiquitous quantum oscillating and two-level systems (TLS) using a novel approach (DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad97f1). Exact reduced density matrices for various initial states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fardin Kheirandish , Narges Cheraghpour , Adam Moradian

We analytically demonstrate that strong system-bath coupling separates the relaxation dynamics of a dissipative quantum system into two distinct regimes: a short-time dynamics that, as expected, accelerates with increasing coupling to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Brett Min , Matthew Gerry , Dvira Segal

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

Achieving rapid and stable energy storage in quantum batteries (QBs) remains a key challenge, particularly under strong system-environment coupling where non-Markovian effects become prominent. While most previous studies focus on weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Shun-Cai Zhao , Yi-Fan Yang , Ni-Ya Zhuang

Coupling a many-body-localized system to a dissipative bath necessarily leads to delocalization. Here, we investigate the nature of the ensuing relaxation dynamics and the information it holds on the many-body-localized state. We formulate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-20 Mark H Fischer , Mykola Maksymenko , Ehud Altman

We study the Mpemba effect on a non-equilibrium Markov chain that mimics the run and tumble motion of an active particle in a discrete energy landscape. The broken detailed balance, rendered by the activity, gives rise to a unique anomalous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-28 Apurba Biswas , Arnab Pal

Dissipative quantum algorithms for state preparation in many-body systems are increasingly recognised as promising candidates for achieving large quantum advantages in application-relevant tasks. Recent advances in algorithmic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Štěpán Šmíd , Richard Meister , Mario Berta , Roberto Bondesan

The relaxation mechanisms of a quantum nanomagnet are discussed in the frame of linear response theory. We use a spin Hamiltonian with a uniaxial potential barrier plus a Zeeman term. The spin, having arbitrary $S$, is coupled to a bosonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Zueco , J. l. Garcia-Palacios

We consider Markovian open quantum systems subject to stochastic resetting, which means that the dissipative time evolution is reset at randomly distributed times to the initial state. We show that the ensuing dynamics is non-Markovian and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-05 Gabriele Perfetto , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Estimating transition rates in open quantum systems is hampered by computing-resource demands that grow rapidly with system size. We present a quantum-simulation framework that enables efficient estimation by recasting the transition rate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Robson Christie , Kyunghyun Baek , Jeongho Bang , Jaewoo Joo

In this paper, we theoretically propose a method to simulate the longitudinal relaxation of a single qubit by coupling it to an auxiliary qubit. In order to mimic the finite-temperature relaxation, we utilize the Hamiltonian-ensemble…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-07 Congwei Lu , Wanting He , Jun Wang , Haibo Wang , Qing Ai

Slowing down of the relaxation of the fluctuations around equilibrium is investigated both by stochastic simulations and by analysis of Master equation of reversible reaction networks consisting of resources and the corresponding products…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Akinori Awazu , Kunihiko Kaneko