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In classical thermodynamics, the Mpemba effect refers to the counterintuitive observation that hot water can freeze faster than cold water, manifesting as an anomalous crossing of dynamical trajectories. While analogues of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhilong Liu , Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang

The Mpemba effect, in which a hotter system cools faster than a colder one, remains one of the most intriguing anomalies in thermodynamics. Here, we investigate its microscopic origin within the framework of quantum resource theories and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Doruk Can Alyürük , Mahir H. Yeşiller , Vlatko Vedral , Onur Pusuluk

The so-called Mpemba effect, i.e. the observation that the warmer of two otherwise identical systems cools faster when both are refrigerated in the same thermal reservoir, is a hotly debated topic in condensed mater physics and statistical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 A. Gijón , A. Lasanta , E. R. Hernández

The quantum Mpemba effect concerns with anomalous relaxation of quantum states that evolves either under unitary or non-unitary dynamics. In the context of open quantum systems, while most studies focus on quantum states evolving under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pitambar Bagui , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

The Mpemba effect originally referred to the observation that, under certain thermalizing dynamics, initially hotter samples can cool faster than colder ones. This effect has since been generalized to other anomalous relaxation behaviors…

Slow relaxation processes spanning widely separated timescales pose fundamental challenges for probing steady-state properties and engineering functional quantum systems, such as quantum heat engines and quantum computing devices. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ruicheng Bao , Zhonghuai Hou

The quantum Mpemba effect (QME) describes the counterintuitive phenomenon in which a system farther from equilibrium reaches steady state faster than one closer to equilibrium. However, ambiguity in defining a suitable distance measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dongheng Qian , Huan Wang , Jing Wang

The name "Mpemba effect" was given to the finding that "If two systems are cooled, the water that starts hotter may freeze first", confirmed by numerous of observations. Now this paradoxical state-ment obtained a more general form "the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Alexei V. Finkelstein

The quantum Mpemba effect (QMpE) describes an anomalous thermalization phenomenon in which quantum states initially far from equilibrium can approach thermal equilibrium faster than states that begin closer to it. While this effect has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zi-Shen Li , Yuxiang Yang

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 explore the role of activity in the occurrence of the Mpemba effect within a system of an active colloid diffusing in a potential landscape devoid of metastable minimum. The Mpemba effect is characterized by a phenomenon where a hotter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Apurba Biswas , R. Rajesh

The Mpemba effect is a counter-intuitive relaxation phenomenon, where a system prepared at a hot temperature cools down faster than an identical system initiated at a cold temperature when both are quenched to an even colder bath. Such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-03 Israel Klich , Oren Raz , Ori Hirschberg , Marija Vucelja

The Mpemba effect has initially been noticed in macroscopic systems -- namely that hot water can freeze faster than cold water -- but recently its extension to open quantum systems has attracted significant attention. This phenomenon can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Juliane Graf , Janine Splettstoesser , Juliette Monsel

We investigate relaxation-order inversion, known as the quantum Mpemba effect (QME), in a minimal open many-body system called a one-dimensional four-site Bose--Hubbard chain governed by Lindblad dynamics with local number dephasing.…

Passive qubit reset is a key primitive for quantum information processing, whereby qubits are initialized by allowing them to relax to their ground state through natural dissipation, without the need for active control or feedback. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Théo Lejeune , Miha Papič , John Goold , Felix C. Binder , François Damanet , Mattia Moroder

We investigate the quantum Mpemba effect in a dissipative Dicke model, which consists of a spin-1/2 ensemble coupled to a bosonic mode, which in turn is coupled to a bosonic bath. We derive a sufficient criterion for occurrence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Arunabha Das , Paranjoy Chaki , Priya Ghosh , Ujjwal Sen

The quantum Mpemba effect in open quantum systems has been extensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon remains elusive. In this paper, we conduct an analytical investigation of the dissipative dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 J. W. Dong , H. F. Mu , M. Qin , H. T. Cui

The phenomenon where a quantum system can be exponentially accelerated to its stationary state has been referred to as the Quantum Mpemba Effect (QMpE). Due to its analogy with the classical Mpemba effect, hot water freezes faster than cold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 J. Furtado , Alan C. Santos

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

Mpemba effects occur after a sudden quench of control parameters if for ''far'' (or ''hot'') initial states with respect to a final target state, the relaxation time toward the target state is shorter than for ''close'' (or ''cold'')…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Andrea Nava , Reinhold Egger