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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

We introduce a continuous time model of many-body quantum dynamics based on infinitesimal random unitary operations, combined with projective measurements. We consider purification dynamics in this model, where the system is initialized in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Sebastian Leontica , Max McGinley

Realistic quantum mechanical systems are always exposed to an external environment. The presence of the environment often gives rise to a Markovian process in which the system loses information to its surroundings. However, many quantum…

The manipulation of quantum "resources" such as entanglement, coherence and magic states lies at the heart of quantum science and technology, empowering potential advantages over classical methods. In practice, a particularly important kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 Kun Fang , Zi-Wen Liu

We consider the qubit-qutrit model of self-contained quantum refrigerator and observe the quantum Mpemba effect in its cooling. In this system, the qutrit acts as the refrigerator while the qubit is to be cooled. The entire system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Sayan Mondal , Ujjwal Sen

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

Hyperentanglement is a promising resource in quantum information processing, especially for increasing the channel capacity of long-distance quantum communication. Hyperentanglement purification is an important method to obtain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Bao-Cang Ren , Fang-Fang Du , Fu-Guo Deng

Ergodicity-breaking and slow relaxation are intriguing aspects of nonequilibrium dynamics both in classical and in quantum settings. These phenomena are typically associated with phase transitions, e.g. the emergence of metastable regimes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Federico Carollo , Antonio Lasanta , Igor Lesanovsky

Purification is a tool that allows to represent mixed quantum states as pure states on enlarged Hilbert spaces. A purification of a given state is not unique and its entanglement strongly depends on the particular choice made. Moreover, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-08 Johannes Hauschild , Eyal Leviatan , Jens H. Bardarson , Ehud Altman , Michael P. Zaletel , Frank Pollmann

The Mpemba effect is a fingerprint of the anomalous relaxation phenomenon wherein an initially hotter system equilibrates faster than an initially colder system when both are quenched to the same low temperature. Experiments on a single…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Apurba Biswas , R. Rajesh , Arnab Pal

Inspired by responses to the work (arXiv:1310.6514), we solved the one-dimensional, nonlinear Fourier initial and boundary condition problem using the finite element method. Examination of all possible parameters reveals the following: 1.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Xi Zhang , Yongli Huang , Zengsheng Ma , Chang Q Sun

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 thermodynamic process involves manipulating and controlling quantum states to extract energy or perform computational tasks with high efficiency. There is still no efficientgeneral method to theoretically quantify the effect of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ming-Xing Luo

Motivated by recent work showing that a quantum error correcting code can be generated by hybrid dynamics of unitaries and measurements, we study the long time behavior of such systems. We demonstrate that even in the "mixed" phase, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Lukasz Fidkowski , Jeongwan Haah , Matthew B. Hastings

We consider using Hamiltonian feedback control to increase the speed at which a continuous measurement purifies (reduces) the state of a quantum system, and thus to increase the speed of the preparation of pure states. For a measurement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-15 Joshua Combes , Kurt Jacobs

Non-Hermitian boundaries commonly take place in many open quantum systems locally coupled to a surrounding environment. Here, we reveal a type of non-Hermitian effect induced by non-Hermitian boundaries, the non-Hermitian proximity effect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-04 Deguang Wu , Jiasong Chen , Wei Su , Rui Wang , Baigeng Wang , D. Y. Xing

Quantum state purification, which operates not by identifying and correcting specific errors but by repeatedly projecting multiple noisy copies onto special subspaces, provides a syndrome-free alternative to quantum error correction.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Xing-Chen Guo , Benchi Zhao , Xin Wang

Entanglement and coherence are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power near future quantum technologies, such as quantum computation, quantum communication and quantum metrology. Yet, their quantification, rather than…

Pure states are fundamental for the implementation of quantum technologies, and several methods for the purification of the state of a quantum system S have been developed in the past years. In this letter we present a new approach, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raffaele Romano

The Empemba effect (ME) is investigated in the context of ubiquitous quantum oscillating and two-level systems (TLS) using a novel approach (DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad97f1). Exact reduced density matrices for various initial states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fardin Kheirandish , Narges Cheraghpour , Adam Moradian
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