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The quantum Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which a state initially farther from equilibrium relaxes more rapidly than one that starts nearer to equilibrium. In the context of finite-dimensional quantum batteries…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Triyas Sapui , Tanoy Kanti Konar , Aditi Sen De

In this paper we provide an analytical investigation of the entanglement dynamics of moving qubits dissipating into a common and (in general) non-Markovian environment for both weak and strong coupling regimes. We first consider the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Sare Golkar , Mohammad K Tavassoly , Alireza Nourmandipour

The possibility of maintaining entanglement in a quantum system at finite, even high, temperatures -- the so-called `hot entanglement' -- has obvious practical interest, but also requires closer theoretical scrutiny. Since quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , B. L. Hu

We investigate temperature quenches across the reentrant phase transition of the antiferromagnetic Ising model in a magnetic field and show that the strong direct and inverse Mpemba effects arise when quenches terminate in the paramagnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Kristian Blom , Doron Benyamin , Uwe Thiele , Oren Raz , Aljaz Godec

Entanglement is essential in quantum information science. Typically, the inevitable coupling between quantum systems and environment inhibits entanglement from being created between long-distance subsystems and being maintained for a long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Yuebing Zhou , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Despite decades of research, the Mpemba Effect challenges scientists, prompting further investigation and refinement of existing hypotheses. This work uses optical tools such as thermography to analyze and study the Mpemba effect on drops.…

There is an increasing interest in the role of macroscopic environments to our understanding of the basics of quantum theory. The knowledge of the implications of the quantum theory to other theories, especially to the statistical mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper

We report anomalous heating in a colloidal system, the first observation of the inverse Mpemba effect, where an initially cold system heats up faster than an identical warm system coupled to the same thermal bath. For an overdamped,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-28 Avinash Kumar , Raphael Chetrite , John Bechhoefer

Two non--interacting quantum systems which couple to a common environment with many degrees of freedom initially in thermal equilibrium can become entangled due to the indirect interaction mediated through this heat bath. I examine here the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Daniel Braun

Thermodynamics of quantum systems out-of-equilibrium is very important for the progress of quantum technologies, however, the effects of many body interactions and their interplay with temperature, different drives and dynamical regimes is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. H. Skelt , K. Zawadzki , I. D'Amico

We study, from a thermodynamic perspective, the equilibrium states of a qubit interacting with an arbitrary environment of dimension N>>2. We show that even in presence of memory about the initial state, in some cases the qubit can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Andrés Vallejo , Alejandro Romanelli , Raul Donangelo

Rigorous derivations of the approach of individual elements of large isolated systems to a state of thermal equilibrium, starting from arbitrary initial states, are exceedingly rare. This is particularly true for quantum mechanical systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Stephan De Bievre , Marco Merkli , Paul E. Parris

We show that in a linear quantum machine, a driven quantum system that evolves while coupled with thermal reservoirs, entanglement between the reservoir modes is unavoidably generated. This phenomenon, which occurs at sufficiently low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Milton Aguilar , Nahuel Freitas , Juan Pablo Paz

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 heat flow between a quantum system and its reservoir is analyzed when initially both are in a separable thermal state and asymptotically approach a correlated equilibrium. General findings are illustrated for specific systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Joachim Ankerhold , Jukka P. Pekola

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 D. M. Valente , A. O. Caldeira

In this work we suggest a simple theoretical solution of the Mpemba effect in full agreement with known experimental data. This solution follows simply as an especial approximation (linearization) of the usual heat (transfer) equation,…

General Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 Vladan Pankovic , Darko V. Kapor

Entanglement asymmetry has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing symmetry breaking in quantum many-body systems. In this Letter, we explore how symmetry is dynamically broken through the lens of entanglement asymmetry in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Hui Yu , Zi-Xiang Li , Shi-Xin Zhang

We study two two-level atomic quantum systems (qubits) placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding walls. While at thermal equilibrium the two-qubit dynamics is characterized by not entangled steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Bruno Bellomo , Mauro Antezza

In closed quantum many-body systems, initially localized information spreads throughout the system and becomes highly complex. This phenomenon, known as information scrambling, is closely related to entropy growth and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Yuke Zhang , Zeyu Liu , Shuo Zhang , Langxuan Chen , Pengfei Zhang