Overtaking while approaching equilibrium

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2010-11-16

arxiv.org/abs/1011.3598v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

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A system initially far from equilibrium is expected to take more time to reach equilibrium than a system that was initially closer to equilibrium. The old puzzling observation (also called Mpemba effect) that when a sample of hot water and another sample of cold water are put in a freezer to equilibrate, the hot water sometimes overtakes as they cool, has been highlighted recently. In the extensively studied colossal magnetoresistance manganites, cooling in a magnetic field (H) often results in an inhomogeneous mixture of transformed equilibrium phase and a kinetically arrested non-equilibrium phase which relaxes slowly towards equilibrium at fixed H and temperature (T). Here we show that the magnetization decay rate at the same H and T is larger for the state that was initially farther from equilibrium, and it continues to relax faster even after these have become equal. Our result should help propose an explanation, for Mpemba effect, that does not attribute it to any artifact.

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