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The essence of the Mpemba effect is that non-equilibrium systems may relax faster the further they are from their equilibrium configuration. In the quantum realm, this phenomenon arises in the dynamics of closed systems, where it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Xhek Turkeshi , Pasquale Calabrese , Andrea De Luca

The Mpemba effect, where a state prepared farther from equilibrium relaxes faster to equilibrium than one prepared closer, has a quantum counterpart where relaxation is resolved by conserved charge. However, the fate of the quantum Mpemba…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Han-Ze Li , Ching Hua Lee , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang , Jian-Xin Zhong

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

Non-equilibrium dynamics have become a central research focus, exemplified by the counterintuitive Mpemba effect where initially hotter systems can cool faster than colder ones. Studied extensively in both classical and quantum regimes,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Hui Yu , Shuo Liu , Shi-Xin Zhang

The highly complicated nature of far from equilibrium systems can lead to a complete breakdown of the physical intuition developed in equilibrium. A famous example of this is the Mpemba effect, which states that non-equilibrium states may…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-03 Colin Rylands , Katja Klobas , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Sara Murciano , Bruno Bertini

One of the manifestations of the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) is that a tilted ferromagnet exhibits faster restoration of the spin-rotational symmetry after a quantum quench when starting from a larger tilt angle. This phenomenon has…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Shion Yamashika , Filiberto Ares

Entanglement asymmetry, which serves as a diagnostic tool for symmetry breaking and a proxy for thermalization, has recently been proposed and studied in the context of symmetry restoration for quantum many-body systems undergoing a quench.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang

Monitoring a quantum system can profoundly alter its dynamical properties, leading to nontrivial emergent phenomena. In this work, we demonstrate that dynamical measurements strongly influence the evolution of symmetry in many-body quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Giuseppe Di Giulio , Xhek Turkeshi , Sara Murciano

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,…

Symmetry plays a fundamental role in many-body systems, both in and out of equilibrium. The quantum Mpemba effect (QME) - a phenomenon where systems initially farther from equilibrium can thermalize faster - can be understood in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Andrew Hallam , Matthew Yusuf , Aashish A. Clerk , Ivar Martin , Zlatko Papić

The study of symmetry restoration has recently emerged as a fruitful means to extract high-level information on the relaxation of quantum many-body systems. However, while the restoration of internal symmetries has been investigated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Molly Gibbins , Adam Gammon-Smith , Bruno Bertini

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

Recently, a novel probe to study symmetry breaking, known as entanglement asymmetry, has emerged and has been utilized to explore how symmetry is dynamically restored following quantum quenches. Interestingly, it has been shown that, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-27 Filiberto Ares , Vittorio Vitale , Sara Murciano

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 Mpemba effect, where a hotter system can equilibrate faster than a cooler one, has long been a subject of fascination in classical physics. In the past few years, significant theoretical and experimental progress has been made in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-10 Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Sara Murciano

We study the local relaxation of closed quantum systems through the relative entropy between the reduced density matrix and its long time limit. We show, using analytic arguments combined with numerical checks, that this relative entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-29 Filiberto Ares , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

The Mpemba effect refers to the anomalous relaxation of a quantum state that, despite being initially farther from equilibrium, relaxes faster than a closer counterpart. Detecting such a quantum Mpemba effect typically requires full…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-03 Pitambar Bagui , Arijit Chatterjee , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

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

The behavior of systems far from equilibrium is often complex and unpredictable, challenging and sometimes overturning the physical intuition derived from equilibrium scenarios. One striking example of this is the Mpemba effect, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Stefano Longhi

The quantum Mpemba effect (QME) is a phenomenon observed in many-body systems where initial systems configurations farther from equilibrium can be observed to equilibrate faster than configurations that are closer to it. By considering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Matthew Mackinnon , Mauro Paternostro
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