Quantum Pontus--Mpemba Effect in Dissipative Quasiperiodic Chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15406v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:25:48 GMT
• Title: Quantum Pontus--Mpemba Effect in Dissipative Quasiperiodic Chains
• Authors: Yefeng Song, Junxiao Chen, Xiangyu Yang, Mingdi Xu, Xiang-Ping Jiang, Lei Pan,
• Abstract summary: We analyze the Pontus-Mpemba effect in one-dimensional chains subject to Markovian dephasing.<n>We show that a properly engineered two-step protocol, in which the system is first steered to a finite temperature intermediate state, yields a strictly shorter overall relaxation time than direct evolution from the same initial configuration.<n>A Liouvillian spectral analysis reveals that the mechanism originates from a redistribution of spectral weight that suppresses overlap with the slowest decay modes, rather than from any modification of the decay spectrum itself.
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• Abstract: We investigate how quasiperiodic spatial structure enables protocol-induced acceleration in open quantum systems by analyzing the Pontus-Mpemba effect in one-dimensional chains subject to Markovian dephasing. The dynamics are governed by a Lindblad superoperator that drives all initial states toward a maximally mixed infinite-temperature steady state, isolating dynamical mechanisms from static equilibrium properties. Considering two representative quasiperiodic models, namely a tight-binding chain with a mosaic potential and its extension with power-law long-range hopping, we show that a properly engineered two-step protocol, in which the system is first steered to a finite temperature intermediate state, yields a strictly shorter overall relaxation time than direct evolution from the same initial configuration. This protocol-induced acceleration persists for both initially localized and extended eigenstates and remains robust in the presence of long-range hopping. A Liouvillian spectral analysis reveals that the mechanism originates from a redistribution of spectral weight that suppresses overlap with the slowest decay modes, rather than from any modification of the decay spectrum itself. Our results establish quasiperiodic chains as a controlled setting for engineering relaxation pathways through Liouvillian spectral structure.

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