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We explore the role of exceptional points and complex eigenvalues on the occurrence of the quantum Mpemba effect. To this end, we study a two-level driven dissipative system subjected to an oscillatory electric field and dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

Closed chaotic quantum systems relax after a quench into a Gibbs ensemble. At late times, the relaxation speed is determined by their conservation laws and hydrodynamics. As a result, there exist pairs of initial states which thermalize to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Thomas Martin Müller , Silvia Pappalardi , Rosario Fazio

Quantum many-body scarred systems exhibit atypical dynamical behavior, evading thermalization and featuring periodic state revivals. In this Letter, we investigate the impact of projective measurements on the dynamics in the scar subspace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the effect of conditional null measurements on a quantum system and find a rich variety of behaviors. Specifically, quantum dynamics with a time independent $H$ in a finite dimensional Hilbert space are considered with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 Quancheng Liu , Klaus Ziegler , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

Entanglement asymmetry -- used here as a direct probe of symmetry restoration -- provides a sharp diagnostic of post-quench dynamics. We test this idea in the complex Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev model with a conserved U(1) charge. Using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge

Measurement plays a quintessential role in the control of quantum systems. Beyond initialization and readout which pertain to projective measurements, weak measurements in particular, through their back-action on the system, may enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Yunzhao Wang , Kyrylo Snizhko , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen , Kater Murch

Many systems, when initially placed far from equilibrium, exhibit surprising behavior in their attempt to equilibrate. Striking examples are the Mpemba effect and the cooling-heating asymmetry. These anomalous behaviors can be exploited to…

We examine the physical manifestations of exceptional points and passage times in a two-level system which is subjected to quantum measurements and which admits a non-Hermitian description. Using an effective Hamiltonian acting in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Thilagam

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

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

We study the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of entanglement fluctuations in the $\nu=1$ Quantum Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process, a free-fermion chain with hopping amplitudes that are stochastic in time but homogeneous in space. Previous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-11 Angelo Russotto , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese , Vincenzo Alba

The Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive physical phenomenon where a hot system cools faster than a warm one. In recent years, theoretical analyses of the Mpemba effect have been developed for microscopic systems and experimentally verified.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-12 Tan Van Vu , Hisao Hayakawa

The current revolution in quantum technologies relies on the ability to isolate, coherently control, and measure the state of quantum systems. The act of measurement in quantum mechanics, however, is naturally invasive as the measurement…

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

Entanglement asymmetry is a quantity recently introduced to measure how much a symmetry is broken in a part of an extended quantum system. It has been employed to analyze the non-equilibrium dynamics of a broken symmetry after a global…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Sara Murciano , Filiberto Ares , Israel Klich , Pasquale Calabrese

Understanding how symmetry constrains dissipative relaxation in open quantum many-body systems remains a central challenge in nonequilibrium physics. Here we uncover a symmetry-selective Liouvillian mechanism that protects an isolated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Zijun Wei , Mingdi Xu , Yefeng Song , Yangqian Yan , Lei Pan

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

We generalize the classical thermal Mpemba effect (where an initially hot system relaxes faster to the final equilibrium state than a cold one) to open quantum systems coupled to several reservoirs. We show that, in general, two different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-07 Andrea Nava , Reinhold Egger

The Mpemba effect refers to the surprising observation where, under certain conditions, a far-from-equilibrium state can relax toward equilibrium faster than a state closer to equilibrium. A paradigmatic example is provided by the curious…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

Entanglement asymmetry is a measure that quantifies the degree of symmetry breaking at the level of a subsystem. In this work, we investigate the entanglement asymmetry in $\widehat{su}(N)_k$ Wess-Zumino-Witten model and discuss the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-03 Harunobu Fujimura , Soichiro Shimamori