Mpemba effect and super-accelerated thermalization in the damped quantum harmonic oscillator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.09589v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:00:20 GMT
• Title: Mpemba effect and super-accelerated thermalization in the damped quantum harmonic oscillator
• Authors: Stefano Longhi,
• Abstract summary: Mpemba effect implies that non-equilibrium states can relax more rapidly when they are further from equilibrium. We show a quantum manifestation of the Mpemba effect in a simple and paradigmatic model of open quantum systems. In particular, one can find a broad class of far-from-equilibrium distributions that relax to equilibrium faster than any other initial thermal state.
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• Abstract: The behavior of systems far from equilibrium is often complex and unpredictable, challenging and sometimes overturning the physical intuition derived from equilibrium scenarios. One striking example of this is the Mpemba effect, which implies that non-equilibrium states can sometimes relax more rapidly when they are further from equilibrium. Despite a rich historical background, the precise conditions and mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain unclear. Recently, there has been growing interest in investigating Mpemba-like effects within quantum systems. In this work, we explore a quantum manifestation of the Mpemba effect in a simple and paradigmatic model of open quantum systems: the damped quantum harmonic oscillator, which describes the thermalization process of a bosonic mode in contact with a thermal bath at finite temperature $T$. By means of an exact analytical analysis of the relaxation dynamics, we demonstrate that any initial distribution of populations with a mean excitation number exactly equal to the mean number of quanta in the thermal equilibrium state displays an accelerated relaxation to equilibrium, leading to a pronounced Mpemba effect. In particular, one can find a broad class of far-from-equilibrium distributions that relax to equilibrium faster than any other initial thermal state with a temperature $T'$ arbitrarily close to $T$. Thermalization becomes even faster when the initial out-of-equilibrium population distribution matches the first $r$ moments of the equilibrium distribution. In this scenario, the relaxation rate increases linearly with $r$, resulting in a super-accelerated thermalization process.

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