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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 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

While entanglement is believed to be an important ingredient in understanding quantum many-body physics, the complexity of its characterization scales very unfavorably with the size of the system. Finding super-sets of the set of separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Cécilia Lancien , Otfried Gühne , Ritabrata Sengupta , Marcus Huber

One characterization of a chaotic system is the quick delocalization of quantum information (fast scrambling). One therefore expects that in such a system a state quickly becomes locally indistinguishable from its perturbations. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuya O. Nakagawa , Gábor Sárosi , Tomonori Ugajin

We present the modified relative entropy of entanglement (MRE) in order to both improve the computability for the relative entropy of entanglement and avoid the problem that the entanglement of formation seems to be greater than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 An Min Wang

We study numerically and analytically isolated interacting quantum systems that are taken out of equilibrium instantaneously (quenched). The probability of finding the initial state in time, the so-called fidelity, decays fastest for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-09 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Manan Vyas , Lea F. Santos

An analytical prediction is established of how an isolated many-body quantum system relaxes towards its thermal long-time limit under the action of a time-independent perturbation, but still remaining sufficiently close to a reference case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-25 Lennart Dabelow , Peter Reimann

The Mpemba effect denotes an anomalous relaxation phenomenon where a system initially at a hot temperature cools faster than a system that starts at a less elevated temperature. We introduce an isothermal analog of this effect for a system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-02 Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert

The quantum Pontus-Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which a quantum system relaxes faster through a two-step evolution protocol than through a single, unquenched relaxation. This work proposes its realization in cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Stefano Longhi

Most of our intuition about the behavior of physical systems is shaped by observations at or near thermal equilibrium. However, even a thermal quench can lead to states far from thermal equilibrium, where counterintuitive, anomalous effects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-11 Gianluca Teza , John Bechhoefer , Antonio Lasanta , Oren Raz , Marija Vucelja

Quantum Mpemba effect describes an anomalous phenomenon of accelerated relaxation which is of fundamental interest in the field of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. Conventional theories on this phenomenon strongly rely on the Born-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

The entanglement evolution after a quantum quench became one of the tools to distinguish integrable versus chaotic (non-integrable) quantum many-body dynamics. Following this line of thoughts, here we propose that the revivals in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-01 Ranjan Modak , Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

The Mpemba and Kovacs effects are two notable memory phenomena observed in nonequilibrium relaxation processes. In a recent study [Phys.~Rev.~E \textbf{109}, 044149 (2024)], these effects were analyzed within the framework of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Andrés Santos

We demonstrate a surprising connection between pure steady state entanglement and relaxation timescales in an extremely broad class of Markovian open systems, where two (possibly many-body) systems $A$ and $B$ interact locally with a common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Pocklington , Aashish A. Clerk

In this thesis we present new results relevant to two important problems in quantum information science: the development of a theory of entanglement and the exploration of the use of controlled quantum systems to the simulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-21 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

We present a relaxation-based method to bound expectation values on the steady state of dissipative many-body quantum systems described by master equations of the Lindblad form. Instead of targeting to represent the entire state, we promote…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Miguel Frías Pérez , Antonio Acín

The entanglement spectrum of the reduced density matrix contains information beyond the von Neumann entropy and provides unique insights into exotic orders or critical behavior of quantum systems. Here, we show that strongly disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-10-14 Maksym Serbyn , Alexios A. Michailidis , Dmitry A. Abanin , Z. Papić

An universal approximation technique for analysis of different characteristics of states of composite infinite-dimensional quantum systems is proposed and used to prove general results concerning the properties of correlation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 M. E. Shirokov

The area law for entanglement entropy fundamentally reflects the complexity of quantum many-body systems, demonstrating ground states of local Hamiltonians to be represented with low computational complexity. While this principle is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-21 Donghoon Kim , Tomotaka Kuwahara

The precise characterization of dynamics in open quantum systems often presents significant challenges, leading to the introduction of various approximations to simplify a model. One commonly used strategy involves Markovian approximations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhao-Ming Wang , S. L. Wu , Mark S. Byrd , Lian-Ao Wu