{"id":171552,"date":"2023-09-07T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/aristotles-icebreaker-how-quantum-systems-defy-freezing-logic"},"modified":"2023-09-07T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:22:24","slug":"aristotles-icebreaker-how-quantum-systems-defy-freezing-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/aristotles-icebreaker-how-quantum-systems-defy-freezing-logic","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle\u2019s Icebreaker: How Quantum Systems Defy Freezing Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/aristotles-icebreaker-how-quantum-systems-defy-freezing-logic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Aristotle may have been the first to tackle this question that later became known as the <em>Mpemba effect<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon originally referred to the <em>non-monotonic initial temperature dependence<\/em> of the freezing start time, but it has been observed in various systems \u2014 including colloids \u2014 and has also become known as a mysterious relaxation phenomenon that depends on initial conditions.<\/p>\n<p>However, very few have previously investigated the effect in quantum systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does hot water freeze faster than cold water? Aristotle may have been the first to tackle this question that later became known as the Mpemba effect. This phenomenon originally referred to the non-monotonic initial temperature dependence of the freezing start time, but it has been observed in various systems \u2014 including colloids \u2014 and has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}