M. H. Dos Santos

Preparation-controlled relaxation in an overdamped RLC circuit: A pedagogical route to the spectral Mpemba effect

Can a system with more stored energy cool faster than one with less? An overdamped resistor--inductor--capacitor (RLC) circuit offers a classical, experimentally accessible spectral Mpemba analogue: both states lose energy monotonically, yet the initially higher-energy state can cross below the lower-energy one. The re...