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cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Slow is fast: raising barriers to accelerate thermal relaxation

Yubo Wang, Zhiyue Lu

The paper shows that, contrary to intuition, temporarily raising some kinetic barriers can speed up a system’s return to equilibrium by exploiting non‑commuting dynamics that rotat…