Physicists have developed a new theoretical framework which unifies a wide array of seemingly unrelated "Mpemba effects": ...

The genuine quantum Mpemba effect in a many-qubit system manifests at different timescales. Credit: Physical Review Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.140404 Initially investigating out of ...

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? On its face this idea seems like it should be ridiculously simple to test, and even easier to intuit, but this question has in fact had physicists arguing ...

Heating up Physicists have shown that a colder trapped-ion qubit can warm-up faster than a hotter qubit. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Evgenia-Fux) The inverse Mpemba ...

It sounds like one of the easiest experiments possible: Take two cups of water: one hot, one cold. Place both in a freezer and note which one freezes first. Common sense suggests that the colder water ...

Then the experiment #3 proceeds to demonstrate mpemba effect on water that froze through the frost in the fridge. Then the experiment #8 had shown that if you use different waters, you can make mpemba ...

Illustration of the quantum strong Mpemba effect. Credit: Springer Nature Limited. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54303-0. In a new Nature Communications study ...

The question I have is - under which conditions would you say that the experiment shows the reasoning wrong, instead of experiment itself having been 'done wrong'? For example - if you do something as ...

Researchers have just described the existence of the paradoxical Mpemba effect within quantum systems. Initially investigating out of pure curiosity, the discovery has bridged the gap between ...

Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? On its face this idea seems like it should be ridiculously simple to test, and even easier to intuit, but this question has in fact had physicists arguing ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have just described the existence of the paradoxical Mpemba effect within quantum systems. Initially investigating out of pure curiosity, the discovery has ...