[HTML][HTML] The physics behind water irregularity

CQ Sun, Y Huang, X Zhang, Z Ma, B Wang - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
The notion of asymmetrical Hydrogen Bond (O: HO) Cooperativity and Polarizability (HBCP)
has enabled exploration of the core physics behind irregularities of water and ice …

Observing the quantum Mpemba effect in quantum simulations

LK Joshi, J Franke, A Rath, F Ares, S Murciano… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The nonequilibrium physics of many-body quantum systems harbors various unconventional
phenomena. In this Letter, we experimentally investigate one of the most puzzling of these …

Symmetry restoration and quantum Mpemba effect in symmetric random circuits

S Liu, HK Zhang, S Yin, SX Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Entanglement asymmetry, which serves as a diagnostic tool for symmetry breaking and a
proxy for thermalization, has recently been proposed and studied in the context of symmetry …

Entanglement asymmetry and quantum Mpemba effect in two-dimensional free-fermion systems

S Yamashika, F Ares, P Calabrese - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The quantum Mpemba effect is the counterintuitive nonequilibrium phenomenon wherein
the dynamic restoration of a broken symmetry occurs more rapidly when the initial state …

Thermodynamics of the quantum mpemba effect

M Moroder, O Culhane, K Zawadzki, J Goold - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We investigate the quantum Mpemba effect from the perspective of nonequilibrium quantum
thermodynamics by studying relaxation dynamics of quantum systems coupled to a …

Observation of quantum strong Mpemba effect

J Zhang, G Xia, CW Wu, T Chen, Q Zhang, Y Xie… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
An ancient and counterintuitive phenomenon known as the Mpemba effect (water can cool
faster when initially heated up) showcases the critical role of initial conditions in relaxation …

Mpemba effects in nonequilibrium open quantum systems

X Wang, J Wang - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
The Mpemba effect was originally referred to as the faster icing of a higher-temperature
system than a lower-temperature system, and was later generalized to anomalous decays of …

Perspectives on a Few Puzzles in Phase Transformations: When Should the Farthest Reach the Earliest?

SK Das - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
We briefly review the facts concerning two important aspects of phase transitions, namely,
critical and coarsening phenomena. A discussion of the universal features, highlighting the …

Relaxation shortcuts through boundary coupling

G Teza, R Yaacoby, O Raz - Physical review letters, 2023 - APS
When a hot system cools down faster than an equivalent cold one, it exhibits the Mpemba
effect (ME). This counterintuitive phenomenon was observed in several systems including …

Inducing and optimizing Markovian Mpemba effect with stochastic reset

DM Busiello, D Gupta, A Maritan - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
A hot Markovian system can cool down faster than a colder one: this is known as the
Mpemba effect. Here, we show that a non-equilibrium driving via stochastic reset can induce …