Paper appeared in press MARCH 25 2026

• M.R. Walker, S. Bera, and Marija Vucelja. “Effect of dynamics on anomalous thermal relaxations and information exchange” J. Chem. Phys. 164, 124109 (2026)–April. 5th, 2026.

Marija, her other graduate student, and I finished a second project on how the Mpemba effect arises in a linear reaction network and how this shortcut in time to relax can improve the performance of a Maxwell demon and information engine.

• M.R. Walker, S. Bera, and Marija Vucelja. “Effect of dynamics on anomalous thermal relaxations and information exchange” arXiv preprint–Aug. 8th, 2023.

Marija, her other graduate student, and I finished a project on how the Mpemba effect can show up as an optimal transport protocol and minimal dissipation.

• M.R. Walker, S. Bera, and Marija Vucelja. “Optimal transport and anomalous thermal relaxations” arXiv preprint–July. 30th, 2023.

Marija and I put a preprint about the Mpmeba effect on arXiv regarding the Mpemba effect observed in the experiment completed by A. Kumar and J. Bechhoefer. Exponentially faster cooling in a colloidal system. Nature, 584(7819):64–68, 2020.

• M.R. Walker and Marija Vucelja. “Mpemba effect in terms of mean first passage times of overdamped Langevin dynamics on a double-well potential” arXiv preprint–Dec. 14th, 2022.

Marija and I published our first paper about the Mpemba effect in a piecewise const potential.

• M.R. Walker, and M. Vucelja. “Anomalous thermal relaxation of Langevin particles in a piecewise constant potential.”, Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment–Nov. 11th, 2021.