Quantum Mpemba Effect: Controlled Cooling ⚡ экспресс
Original: "A General Strategy for Realizing Mpemba Effects in Open Quantum Systems"
Physicists have found a way to speed up or slow down the approach of quantum systems to equilibrium by temporarily increasing energy loss in specific couplings.
Links in the knowledge graph 1
Usually hot things cool slower, but the Mpemba effect breaks that rule: sometimes hot water freezes faster. Now physicists have found a way to control this 'anomaly' in the quantum world—by briefly altering the friction inside the system. This will enable more precise control of quantum computers.
🎯 The Mpemba effect, discovered by a schoolboy in the 20th century, was described by Aristotle: in the 4th century BC, he noted that the people of Pontus heated water before freezing to make ice form faster.