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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

We report two-dimensional simulations of strongly vibrated granular materials without gravity. The coefficient of restitution depends on the impact velocity between particles by taking into account both the viscoelastic and plastic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Sean Mcnamara , Eric Falcon

We present an exactly solvable model of the Mpemba effect in an overdamped Langevin system confined in a two-dimensional radially symmetric bistable potential. The potential is constructed as a piecewise quadratic-logarithmic function that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-02 Hisao Hayakawa , Satoshi Takada

By viewing a velocity gradient in a fluid as an internal disturbance and treating it as a constraint on the wave function of a system, a linear evolution equation for the wave function is obtained from the Lagrange multiplier method. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-13 M. -L. Zhang , D. A. Drabold

We report numerical simulations of strongly vibrated granular materials designed to mimic recent experiments performed both in presence [1] or absence [2] of gravity. We show that a model with impact velocity dependent restitution…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Sean McNamara , Eric Falcon

We study the thermalization dynamics of a quantum system embedded in an incommensurate potential and coupled to a Markovian thermal reservoir. The dephasing induced by the bath drives the system toward an infinite-temperature steady state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Mingdi Xu , Zijun Wei , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Lei Pan

We demonstrate that dissipative state preparation protocols in many-body systems can be substantially accelerated via the quantum Mpemba effect. Our approach exploits weak symmetries to analytically identify a class of simple,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-28 Philipp Westhoff , Sebastian Paeckel , Mattia Moroder

The "Mpemba effect" is the name given to the assertion that hot water freezes quicker than cold water1 or, in a modern and more general form, that the system that is initially more distant from its equilibrium state comes to this state…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Andrei A. Klimov , Alexei V. Finkelstein

Using discrete element simulations based on molecular dynamics, we investigate the mechanical behavior of sheared, dry, frictional granular media in the "dense" and "critical" regimes. We find that this behavior is partitioned between…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-25 Aurélien Rigotti , Véronique Dansereau , Jérôme Weiss

Via molecular dynamics simulations we study ICE formation in the TIP4P/Ice model that is known to describe structure and dynamics in various phases of WATER accurately. For this purpose well equilibrated configurations from different…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-10 Soumik Ghosh , Purnendu Pathak , Sohini Chatterjee , Subir K. Das

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

We examine the structural relaxation of glassy materials at finite temperatures, considering the effect of activated rearrangements and long-range elastic interactions. Our three-dimensional mesoscopic relaxation model shows how the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-20 Gieberth Rodriguez-Lopez , Kirsten Martens , Ezequiel E. Ferrero

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

Energy dissipation in sheared dry and wet granulates is considered in the presence of an externally applied confining pressure. Discrete element simulations reveal that for sufficiently small confining pressures, the energy dissipation is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-26 L. Kovalcinova , S. Karmakar , M. Schaber , A. -L. Schuhmacher , M. Scheel , M. DiMichiel , M. Brinkmann , R. Seemann , L. Kondic

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 derive an analytic expression for the shear viscosity of an ultra-relativistic gas in presence of both elastic $2\to 2$ and inelastic $2\leftrightarrow 3$ processes with isotropic differential cross sections. The derivation is based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-28 Andrej El , Francesco Lauciello , Christian Wesp , Ioannis Bouras , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

The non-equilibrium physics of many-body quantum systems harbors various unconventional phenomena. In this study, we experimentally investigate one of the most puzzling of these phenomena -- the quantum Mpemba effect, where a tilted…

Recent experiments report that slowly-sheared noncolloidal particle suspensions can exhibit unexpected rate($\omega$)-dependent complex viscosities in oscillatory shear, despite a constant relative viscosity in steady shear. Using a minimal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-29 Zhouyang Ge , Raffaella Martone , Luca Brandt , Mario Minale

The dynamic shape relaxation of the two-layer-vesicle is calculated. In additional to the undulation relaxation where the two bilayers move in the same direction, the squeezing mode appears when the gap between the two bilayers is small. At…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 C. -Y. David Lu , Shigeyuki Komura , Kazuhiko Seki

We study the dynamics of the solid to liquid transition for a model material made of elastic particles immersed in a viscous fluid. The interaction between particle surfaces includes their viscous lubrication, a sharp repulsion when they…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Rognon , I. Einav , C. Gay