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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

In classical thermodynamics, the Mpemba effect refers to the counterintuitive observation that hot water can freeze faster than cold water, manifesting as an anomalous crossing of dynamical trajectories. While analogues of this phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhilong Liu , Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang

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

Anomalous thermal relaxation is ubiquitous in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. An emblematic example of this is the Mpemba effect, where an initially ``hot'' system cools faster than an initially ``cooler'' one. This effect has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Ivan Medina , Oisín Culhane , Felix C. Binder , Gabriel T. Landi , John Goold

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

As fully fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of solving useful problems remain a distant goal, we anticipate an era of "early fault tolerance" where limited error correction is available. We propose a framework for designing early…

Understanding the noise characteristics of quantum processors is crucial when achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, typical qubit designs are often studied under the Markovian approximation, which does not fully capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chun-Tse Li , Jingming Tan , Vasil Gucev , Daniel Lidar

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

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

Quantum state designs, by enabling an efficient sampling of random quantum states, play a quintessential role in devising and benchmarking various quantum protocols with broad applications ranging from circuit designs to black hole physics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Naga Dileep Varikuti , Soumik Bandyopadhyay

Inherent symmetry of a quantum system may protect its otherwise fragile states. Leveraging such protection requires testing its robustness against uncontrolled environmental interactions. Using 47 superconducting qubits, we implement the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 Xiao Mi , Michael Sonner , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Kenneth W. Lee , Brooks Foxen , Rajeev Acharya , Igor Aleiner , Trond I. Andersen , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Abraham Asfaw , Juan Atalaya , Ryan Babbush , Dave Bacon , Joseph C. Bardin , Joao Basso , Andreas Bengtsson , Gina Bortoli , Alexandre Bourassa , Leon Brill , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Benjamin Chiaro , Roberto Collins , Paul Conner , William Courtney , Alexander L. Crook , Dripto M. Debroy , Sean Demura , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Catherine Erickson , Lara Faoro , Edward Farhi , Reza Fatemi , Leslie Flores , Ebrahim Forati , Austin G. Fowler , William Giang , Craig Gidney , Dar Gilboa , Marissa Giustina , Alejandro Grajales Dau , Jonathan A. Gross , Steve Habegger , Matthew P. Harrigan , Jeremy Hilton , Markus Hoffmann , Sabrina Hong , Trent Huang , Ashley Huff , William J. Huggins , Lev B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Justin Iveland , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Dvir Kafri , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Tanuj Khattar , Seon Kim , Alexei Kitaev , Paul V. Klimov , Andrey R. Klots , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , J. M. Kreikebaum , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Kim-Ming Lau , Joonho Lee , Lily Laws , Wayne Liu , Aditya Locharla , Erik Lucero , Orion Martin , Jarrod R. McClean , Matt McEwen , Bernardo Meurer Costa , Kevin C. Miao , Masoud Mohseni , Shirin Montazeri , Alexis Morvan , Emily Mount , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Michael Newman , Thomas E. O'Brien , Alex Opremcak , Andre Petukhov , Rebecca Potter , Chris Quintana , Nicholas C. Rubin , Negar Saei , Daniel Sank , Kannan Sankaragomathi , Kevin J. Satzinger , Christopher Schuster , Michael J. Shearn , Vladimir Shvarts , Doug Strain , Yuan Su , Marco Szalay , Guifre Vidal , Benjamin Villalonga , Catherine Vollgraff-Heidweiller , Theodore White , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Juhwan Yoo , Adam Zalcman , Yaxing Zhang , Ningfeng Zhu , Hartmut Neven , Sergio Boixo , Anthony Megrant , Yu Chen , Julian Kelly , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Dmitry A. Abanin , Pedram Roushan

We consider the evolution of open quantum systems coupled to one or more Gaussian environments. We demonstrate that such systems can be described by a Markovian quantum master equation (MQME) up to a correction that decreases exponentially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Johannes Agerskov , Frederik Nathan

The interplay between symmetries and entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of an intense multidisciplinary research effort. Here we introduce a setting where these questions can be characterised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Alessandro Foligno , Pasquale Calabrese , Bruno Bertini

The Mpemba effect, in which a system initially farther from equilibrium relaxes faster than a closer one, is often associated with nonlinear or far-from-equilibrium dynamics. We show that this effect can arise entirely within the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Philippe Ben-Abdallah

Quantum error mitigation has been proposed as a means to combat unwanted and unavoidable errors in near-term quantum computing without the heavy resource overheads required by fault tolerant schemes. Recently, error mitigation has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Yihui Quek , Daniel Stilck França , Sumeet Khatri , Johannes Jakob Meyer , Jens Eisert

The quantum Mpemba effect (ME) in Markovian systems is conventionally explained by a smaller overlap between the initial state and the slowest decay mode (SDM). Such state, initially farther away from equilibrium or steady state, relaxes…

In the current Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum era, noise is widely regarded as the primary obstacle to achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, certain stages of the quantum computing pipeline can, in fact, benefit from this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Sameer Dambal , Yu Zhang , Eric R Bittner , Pavan Hosur

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

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

When a system thermalizes it loses all local memory of its initial conditions. This is a general feature of open systems and is well described by equilibrium statistical mechanics. Even within a closed (or reversible) quantum system, where…

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