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The study of symmetry restoration has recently emerged as a fruitful means to extract high-level information on the relaxation of quantum many-body systems. However, while the restoration of internal symmetries has been investigated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Molly Gibbins , Adam Gammon-Smith , Bruno Bertini

The Mpemba effect is a thermodynamic anomaly in which a system farther away in temperature from equilibrium thermalizes before one that is initially closer. The effect has been experimentally observed across a wide range of systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-06 Ido Avitan , Roee Factor , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Through an exact analysis, we show the existence of Mpemba effect in an anisotropically driven inelastic Maxwell gas, a simplified model for granular gases, in two dimensions. Mpemba effect refers to the couterintuitive phenomenon of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-23 Apurba Biswas , V. V. Prasad , R. Rajesh

The "Mpemba effect" is the name given to the assertion that hot water freezes quicker than cold water1 or, in a modern and more general form, that the system that is initially more distant from its equilibrium state comes to this state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Andrei A. Klimov , Alexei V. Finkelstein

In this Letter we pose the question of whether a many-body quantum system with a full set of conserved quantities can relax to an equilibrium state, and, if it can, what the properties of such state are. We confirm the relaxation hypothesis…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-09-11 Marcos Rigol , Vanja Dunjko , Vladimir Yurovsky , Maxim Olshanii

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

Quantum state preparation can be strikingly counterintuitive: the fastest route to a target state need not start from the apparently closest initial condition. We uncover such a quantum Mpemba effect in the dynamical generation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Zhenyu Xiao , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuo Liu

Non-equilibrium dynamics in non-Hermitian systems has attracted significant interest, particularly due to the skin effect and its associated anomalous phenomena. Previous studies have primarily focused on initial states with a definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Sibo Guo , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Zi-Xiang Li

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

We review the recent progress in the understanding of the relaxation of isolated near-integrable quantum many-body systems. Focusing on prethermalization and universal dynamics following a quench, we describe the experiments with ultracold…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-07-05 Tim Langen , Thomas Gasenzer , Jörg Schmiedmayer

The Mpemba effect and its inverse can be understood as a result of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In polymers, changes of state are generally non-equilibrium processes. However, the Mpemba effect has been rarely reported in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-28 Jinghua Liu , Jingqing Li , Binyuan Liu , Ian W. Hamley , Shichun Jiang

A particle with finite initial velocity in a disordered potential comes back and in average stops at the original location. This phenomenon dubbed 'quantum boomerang effect' (QBE) has been recently observed in an experiment simulating the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-11 Flavio Noronha , Tommaso Macrì

The Mpemba effect, an example of anomalous thermal relaxations, occurs when a system prepared at a hot temperature overtakes an identical system prepared at a warm temperature and cools down faster to the environment's temperature. We study…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-10 Saikat Bera , Matthew R. Walker , Marija Vucelja

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

We investigate Krylov state complexity as a probe of the quantum Mpemba effect in quantum spin chains. For models without global $U(1)$ symmetry, Krylov complexity exhibits clear Mpemba-like crossings, consistent with conventional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Mohsen Alishahiha , Mohammad Javad Vasli

For quicker formation of ice, before inserting inside a refrigerator, heating up of a body of water can be beneficial. We report first observation of a counterpart of this intriguing fact, referred to as the Mpemba effect (ME), during…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-07 Nalina Vadakkayil , Subir K. Das

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

Understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of extended quantum systems after the trigger of a sudden, global perturbation (quench) represents a daunting challenge, especially in the presence of interactions. The main difficulties stem from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexandre Faribault , Pasquale Calabrese , Jean-Sebastien Caux

Complex and even non-monotonic responses to external control can be found in many thermodynamic systems. In such systems, non-equilibrium shortcuts can rapidly drive the system from an initial state to a desired final state. One example is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-28 Supraja S. Chittari , Zhiyue Lu

The classical Mpemba effect is the counterintuitive phenomenon where hotter water freezes faster than colder water due to the breakdown of Newton's law of cooling after a sudden temperature quench. The genuine nonequilibrium post-quench…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Marco Peluso , Reinhold Egger , Andrea Nava