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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

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

Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems has attracted increasing attention owing to a variety of intriguing phenomena absent in equilibrium physics. A prominent example is the quantum Mpemba effect, where subsystem symmetry is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

Monitoring a quantum system can profoundly alter its dynamical properties, leading to nontrivial emergent phenomena. In this work, we demonstrate that dynamical measurements strongly influence the evolution of symmetry in many-body quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Giuseppe Di Giulio , Xhek Turkeshi , Sara Murciano

The traditional Mpemba effect refers to an anomalous cooling phenomenon when an initial hotter system cools down faster than an initial warm system. Such counterintuitive behavior has been confirmed and explored across phase transitions in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-05 Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen

Local relaxation after a quench in 1-D quantum many-body systems is a well known and very active problem with rich phenomenology. Except for pathological cases, the local relaxation is accompanied by the local restoration of the symmetries…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-14 Konstantinos Chalas , Filiberto Ares , Colin Rylands , Pasquale Calabrese

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 Mpemba effect refers to systems whose thermal relaxation time is a non-monotonic function of the initial temperature. Thus, a system that is initially hot cools to a bath temperature more quickly than the same system, initially warm. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Raphaël Chétrite , Avinash Kumar , John Bechhoefer

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…

Recently, the entanglement asymmetry emerged as an informative tool to understand dynamical symmetry restoration in out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems after a quantum quench. For integrable systems the asymmetry can be understood…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Fabio Caceffo , Sara Murciano , Vincenzo Alba

Understanding relaxation dynamics in open quantum systems is a central problem in nonequilibrium quantum physics. Here we investigate the quantum Mpemba effect in the spin-boson model. In the weak-coupling Markovian regime we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 P. Chirico , G. Di Bello , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

Harnessing non-Markovian effects has emerged as a resource for quantum control, where a structured environment can act as a quantum memory. We investigate the quench dynamics from specific initial states to equilibrium steady states in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 YuanDong Wang

We demonstrate the quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot coupled to two reservoirs, described by the Anderson model. We show that the system temperatures starting from two different initial values (hot and cold), cross each other at finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-25 Amit Kumar Chatterjee , Satoshi Takada , Hisao Hayakawa

The counterintuitive Mpemba effect, wherein a hotter system cools faster, critically lacks a general macroscopic theory. Here, starting from linear irreversible thermodynamics, we formulate a generalized Newton's cooling law,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Yun-Qian Lin , Z. C. Tu , Yu-Han Ma

The quantum Mpemba effect is the counter-intuitive non-equilibrium phenomenon wherein the dynamic restoration of a broken symmetry occurs more rapidly when the initial state exhibits a higher degree of symmetry breaking. The effect has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-19 Shion Yamashika , Filiberto Ares , Pasquale Calabrese

We demonstrate that open quantum systems exhibiting dynamical phase transitions (DPTs) allow for efficient protocols implementing the Pontus-Mpemba effect. The relaxation speed-up toward a predesignated target state is tied to the existence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Andrea Nava , Reinhold Egger , Bidyut Dey , Domenico Giuliano

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

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

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

Random fluctuations caused by environmental noise can lead to decoherence in quantum systems. Exploring and controlling such dissipative processes is both fundamentally intriguing and essential for harnessing quantum systems to gain…

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