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Under certain conditions, it takes a shorter time to cool a hot system than to cool the same system initiated at a lower temperature. This phenomenon - the "Mpemba Effect" - is well known in water, and has recently been observed in other…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-28 Zhiyue Lu , Oren Raz

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

We introduce the notion of the mixed state projected ensemble (MSPE), a collection of mixed states describing a local region of a quantum many-body system, conditioned upon measurements of the complementary region which are incomplete. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Xie-Hang Yu , Wen Wei Ho , Pavel Kos

Quantum simulation of molecular electronic structure is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing. However, achieving chemically accurate predictions for strongly correlated systems requires quantum phase estimation (QPE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Shota Kanasugi , Riki Toshio , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima

Quantum computing devices require exceptional control of their experimental parameters to prepare quantum states and simulate other quantum systems. Classical optimization procedures used to find such optimal control parameters, have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Matthew Duschenes , Juan Carrasquilla , Raymond Laflamme

We develop a framework for describing the effects of systematic state preparation error in quantum-enhanced atom interferometry on sensing performance. We do this in the context of both spin-squeezed and non-Gaussian states for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Joshua Goldsmith , Joseph Hope , Simon Haine

We explore the robustness of universal dynamical scaling behavior in a quantum system near criticality with respect to initialization in a large class of states with finite energy. By focusing on a homogeneous XY quantum spin chain in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shusa Deng , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

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

Noise and errors are inevitable parts of any practical implementation of a quantum computer. As a result, large-scale quantum computation will require ways to detect and correct errors on quantum information. Here, we present such a quantum…

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

The quicker freezing of hotter water, than a colder sample, when quenched to a common lower temperature, is referred to as the Mpemba effect (ME). While this counter-intuitive fact remains a surprize since long, efforts have begun to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-08 Sohini Chatterjee , Soumik Ghosh , Nalina Vadakkayil , Tanay Paul , Sanat K. Singha , Subir K. Das

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

Starting from the Quantum-Phase-Estimate (QPE) algorithm, a method is proposed to construct entangled states that describe correlated many-body systems on quantum computers. Using operators for which the discrete set of eigenvalues is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 D. Lacroix

We consider open quantum systems whose dynamics is governed by a time-independent Markovian Lindblad Master equation. Such systems approach their stationary state on a timescale that is determined by the spectral gap of the generator of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Simon Kochsiek , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

The Lindblad form guarantees complete positivity of a Markovian quantum master equation (QME). However, its microscopic derivation for a quantum system weakly interacting with a thermal bath requires several approximations, which may result…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Jae Sung Lee , Joonhyun Yeo

The so-called Mpemba effect, i.e. the observation that the warmer of two otherwise identical systems cools faster when both are refrigerated in the same thermal reservoir, is a hotly debated topic in condensed mater physics and statistical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 A. Gijón , A. Lasanta , E. R. Hernández

We study the conditions under which a Mpemba-like effect emerges in granular gases of inelastic and rough hard disks driven by a class of thermostats characterized by the splitting of the noise intensity into translational and rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Alberto Megías , Andrés Santos

Generating quantum data by learning the underlying quantum distribution poses challenges in both theoretical and practical scenarios, yet it is a critical task for understanding quantum systems. A fundamental question in quantum machine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

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