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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 Mpemba effect is a counter-intuitive phenomena in which a hot system reaches a cold temperature faster than a colder system, under otherwise identical conditions. Here we propose a quantum analog of the Mpemba effect, on the simplest…

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

Various exotic phenomena emerge in non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems. The Mpemba effect, denoting the situation where a hot system freezes faster than the colder one, is a counterintuitive non-equilibrium phenomenon that has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-13 Wei-Xuan Chang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Zi-Xiang Li

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 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

The long time accumulation of the \textit{random} actions of a single particle "reservoir" on its coupled system can transfer some temperature information of its initial state to the coupled system. This dynamic process can be referred to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jie-Qiao Liao , H. Dong , C. P. Sun

Temperature is a deceptively simple concept that still raises deep questions at the forefront of quantum physics research. The observation of thermalisation in completely isolated quantum systems, such as cold-atom quantum simulators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-09 Mark T. Mitchison , Archak Purkayastha , Marlon Brenes , Alessandro Silva , John Goold

Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jerome Lloyd , Dmitry A. Abanin

We study the relaxation of a quantum system towards the thermal equilibrium using tools developed within the context of quantum information theory. We consider a model in which the system is a qubit, and reaches equilibrium after several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Nicolas Gisin , Vladimir Buzek

In this work, we show how Gibbs or thermal states appear dynamically in closed quantum many-body systems, building on the program of dynamical typicality. We introduce a novel perturbation theorem for physically relevant weak system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Arnau Riera , Christian Gogolin , Jens Eisert

We consider the question of thermalization for isolated quantum systems after a sudden parameter change, a so-called quantum quench. In part icular we investigate the pre-requisites for thermalization focusing on the statistical properties…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-10 G. Biroli , C. Kollath , A. Laeuchli

We experimentally study the ergodic dynamics of a 1D array of 12 superconducting qubits with a transverse field, and identify the regimes of strong and weak thermalization with different initial states. We observe convergence of the local…

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

Emulating thermal observables on a digital quantum computer is essential for quantum simulation of many-body physics. However, thermalization typically requires a large system size due to incorporating a thermal bath, whilst limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-12 H. Perrin , T. Scoquart , A. I. Pavlov , N. V. Gnezdilov

We investigate a nonequilibrium quantum thermometry protocol in which an ensemble of qubits, acting as temperature probes, is weakly coupled to a macroscopic thermal bath. The temperature of the bath, the parameter of interest, is encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Enrico Trombetti , Marco Malitesta , Marco Pezzutto , Stefano Gherardini

The problem of simulating the thermal behavior of quantum systems remains a central open challenge in quantum computing. Unlike well-established quantum algorithms for unitary dynamics, \emph{provably efficient} algorithms for preparing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Dominik Hahn , Ryan Sweke , Abhinav Deshpande , Oles Shtanko

Developing protocols for preserving information in quantum systems is a central quest for implementing realistic quantum computation. In this regard, the quantum Zeno effect has emerged as a widely utilized technique to safeguard classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Guilherme Zambon , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

Thermalization in closed quantum systems can be explained either by means of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis or the concept of canonical typicality. Both concepts are based on quantum mechanical formalism such as spectral…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-08-11 Jayson G. Cosme , Oleksandr Fialko