[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 …

Microscopic origin of the quantum Mpemba effect in integrable systems

C Rylands, K Klobas, F Ares, P Calabrese… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The highly complicated nature of far from equilibrium systems can lead to a complete
breakdown of the physical intuition developed in equilibrium. A famous example of this is the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Inverse Mpemba effect demonstrated on a single trapped ion qubit

S Aharony Shapira, Y Shapira, J Markov, G Teza… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive phenomena in which a hot system reaches a cold
temperature faster than a colder system, under otherwise identical conditions. Here, we …

Exponentially faster cooling in a colloidal system

A Kumar, J Bechhoefer - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
As the temperature of a cooling object decreases as it relaxes to thermal equilibrium, it is
intuitively assumed that a hot object should take longer to cool than a warm one. Yet, some …

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 …

Quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot with reservoirs

AK Chatterjee, S Takada, H Hayakawa - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the quantum Mpemba effect in a quantum dot coupled to two reservoirs,
described by the Anderson model. We show that the system temperatures starting from two …