The Mpemba effect — the counterintuitive phenomenon where a hotter system can freeze more rapidly than a cooler one — challenges conventional thermodynamic principles and stimulates ongoing inquiry. Using molecular dynamics simulations, this study demonstrates the Mpemba effect during ice formation in the TIP4P/Ice model, as well as for a similar transition in a Lennard-Jones model, and investigates the roles of metastability and critical fluctuations
- Soumik Ghosh
- Purnendu Pathak
- Subir K. Das
