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The counterintuitive Mpemba effect, wherein a hotter system cools faster, critically lacks a general macroscopic theory. Here, starting from linear irreversible thermodynamics, we formulate a generalized Newton's cooling law,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yun-Qian Lin , Z. C. Tu , Yu-Han Ma

Featuring memory of past inputs is a fundamental requirement for machine learning models processing time-dependent data. In quantum reservoir computing, all architectures proposed so far rely on Markovian dynamics, which, as we prove,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Antonio Sannia , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

The quantum Pontus-Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which a quantum system relaxes faster through a two-step evolution protocol than through a single, unquenched relaxation. This work proposes its realization in cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Stefano Longhi

We study the consequences of adopting the memory dependent, non-Markovian, physics with the memory-less over-damped approximation usually employed to investigate Brownian particles. Due to the finite correlation time scale associated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Eduardo dos S. Nascimento , Welles A. M. Morgado

Memory effect of non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems is often believed to be beneficial for quantum information processing. In this work, we employ an experimentally controllable two-photon open system, with one photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Zhen-Yu Xu , Chen Liu , Shunlong Luo , Shiqun Zhu

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

We study the applicability of collisional models for non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems. By allowing interactions between the separate environmental degrees of freedom in between collisions we are able to construct a collision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Silvan Kretschmer , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

We deduce a class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations which describe a system in a composite bipartite environment, consisting of a Markovian reservoir and additional stationary unobserved degrees of freedom that modulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian A. Budini , Henning Schomerus

Non-Markovian effects are important in modeling the behavior of open quantum systems arising in solid-state physics, quantum optics as well as in study of biological and chemical systems. The non-Markovian environment is often approximated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rahul Trivedi , Daniel Malz , J. Ignacio Cirac

The quantum jump approach allows to characterize the stochastic dynamics associated to an open quantum system submitted to a continuous measurement action. In this paper we show that this formalism can consistently be extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-03 Adrian A. Budini

We investigate memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics on superconducting quantum processors provided by IBM Quantum. We use a collision-model approach to implement suitable single- and two-qubit dynamics with a gate-based quantum circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Charlotte Bäcker , Krishna Palaparthy , Walter T. Strunz

The quantum Pontus-Mpemba effect (QPME) is a counterintuitive phenomenon wherein a quantum system relaxes more rapidly through a two-step evolution protocol than through direct evolution under a symmetric Hamiltonian alone. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Hui Yu , Jiangping Hu , Shi-Xin Zhang

We address memory effects in the dynamics of a two-level open quantum system interacting with a classical fluctuating field via dipole interaction. In particular, we study the backflow of information for a field with a Lorentzian spectrum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Samaneh Hesabi , Davood Afshar , Matteo G. A. Paris

We analyse the dynamics of metastable Markovian open quantum systems by unravelling their average dynamics into stochastic trajectories. We use quantum reset processes as examples to illustrate metastable phenomenology, including a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-08 Calum A. Brown , Katarzyna Macieszczak , Robert L. Jack

The Mpemba Effect can be studied with Markovian dynamics in a non-equilibrium thermodynamics framework. The Markovian Mpemba Effect can be observed in a variety of systems including the Ising model. We demonstrate that the Markovian Mpemba…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-26 Felipe Amorim , Joey Wisely , Nathan Buckley , Christiana DiNardo , Daniel Sadasivan

Non-Markovian evolution of an open quantum system can be induced by the memory effects of a reservoir. Although a reservoir with stronger memory effects may seem like it should cause stronger non-Markovian effects on the system of interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Tiantian Ma , Yusui Chen , Tian Chen , Samuel R. Hedemann , Ting Yu

We find analytically the complete set of eigenvalues and eigenvectors associated with Metropolis dynamics on a complete graph. As an application, we use this information to study a counter-intuitive relaxation phenomenon, called the Mpemba…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Israel Klich , Marija Vucelja

Memory (non-Markovian) effect is found to be able to accelerate quantum evolution [S. Deffner and E. Lutz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 010402 (2013)]. In this work, for an atom in a structured reservoir, we show that the mechanism for the speedup…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-09 Zhen-Yu Xu , Shunlong Luo , W. L. Yang , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

We demonstrate the existence, as well as determine the conditions, of a Mpemba effect - a counterintuitive phenomenon where a hotter system equilibrates faster than a cooler system when quenched to a cold temperature - in anisotropically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-14 Apurba Biswas , V. V. Prasad , R. Rajesh

We investigate the steady state properties arising from the open system dynamics described by a memoryless (Markovian) quantum collision model, corresponding to a master equation in the ultra-strong coupling regime. By carefully assessing…