8–12 Dec 2025
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Mpemba effect in bistable continuous potentials

8 Dec 2025, 14:40
20m
Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)

Panasonic Auditorium, Yukawa Hall

Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
Short Talk Monday

Speaker

Hisao Hayakawa (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Description

The Mpemba effect is a counterintuitive phenomenon in which an initially hot material cools down faster than an initially warm material.
After the confirmation of this effect in an experiment in 2020, it became a hot subject in non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
In this talk, I will present an exact solution of the heat relaxation of a particle in a one-dimensional double-well potential.
I will also extend this analysis to a particle in a two-dimensional double-well potential, if I have time.

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