Volume 114, Issue 3

September 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stability and breakdown of chiral motion in nonreciprocal flocking

Aditya Kumar Dutta, Swarnajit Chatterjee, Matthieu Mangeat, and Raja Paul

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034115 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic theory of pattern formation in a generalized multispecies Vicsek model

Eloise Lardet, Letian Chen, and Thibault Bertrand

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034117 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reduced finite-dimensional model of two-dimensional protein cluster formation

Kevin Chen and Paul C. Bressloff

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034402 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

In neurons, postsynaptic domains are critical protein clusters that trap neurotransmitter receptors to regulate synaptic strength during learning and memory. By reducing a complex reaction-diffusion model to a lower-dimensional system, this study directly links the radii of these interacting clusters to bulk protein concentrations. This mathematical reduction reveals the conditions required for multicluster stability.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: Asymptotic theories and instabilities

Mehrana R. Nejad and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034403 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Active nematic models typically assume fixed layer thickness. A long-wavelength theory shows that evolving thickness couples active stresses to curvature, explaining how internal forces drive tissue invagination.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Context-dependent adaptation in a neural computation

Charles J. Edelson, Sima Setayeshgar, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034408 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

By probing a motion-sensitive neuron in the fly visual system, this work shows that neural responses depend on contrast and vary significantly with their surrounding environment. Incorporating this adaptive structure with memory makes the neuron’s coding more efficient.

#BiophysicsSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Force-extension model of cellular membrane extrusion

Fabio Manca and Stefano Giordano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034409 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

This statistical-mechanical framework elucidates how adhesion and device stiffness govern mechanically induced transitions in cellular membranes. Exact analytical relations explain characteristic experimental signatures like force peaks and plateaus during peeling. A central outcome of the analysis is that the constant-force and constant-extension conditions provide qualitatively different force-extension statistics for the same membrane system.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #Interdisciplinary #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Faster-than-adiabatic cooling of non-neutral plasmas

Jan Bartsch, Alfio Borzì, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, and Giovanni Manfredi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035208 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

This paper proposes an optimal control strategy to cool an antiproton plasma in a time much shorter than that required by an adiabatic process. The authors examine the length and stability of the plasma, in addition to its duration. The work suggests that optimal control techniques may be useful for experiments with plasmas, in particular with antimatter plasmas, which need to be confined and cooled before significant losses and annihilation occur.

#TimelyTopic #TechnicalAdvancement #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Granular clogging across gravities: A unified scaling

Oliver Gaida, Olfa D'Angelo, and Jonathan E. Kollmer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035405 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

This paper presents a predictive framework to scale granular flow from Earth to other gravitational environments, and shows that low gravity dramatically increases the probability of clogging. These findings explain previous contradictory results and establish a foundation for predicting and controlling granular flow in space.

#UniversalBehavior #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth-driven avalanche behavior in bacterial monolayers

Blake Langeslay, Ethan A. Mullen, Gabriel Juarez, and Karin A. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035421 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

This paper models growing bacterial colonies under confinement and reports intermittent pressure drops reminiscent of avalanche behavior. A statistical analysis of these events shows that their scaling exponents are similar to mean-field predictions for avalanches in granular materials, suggesting that a new type of avalanche behavior takes place in bacterial colonies driven by particle growth rather than shearing or compression.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental evidence of grain size-shape correlation effects on the critical-state shear strength of granular media

Quyen Le Van, Carlos Ovalle, Emilien Azéma, Mathieu Renouf, Jonathan Barés, Sylvain Buonomo, and Arcesio Lizcano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035426 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Particle-scale parameters, such as particle size distribution and grain shape, play a relevant role in controlling the collective behavior of granular assemblies. In this paper, a systematic experimental study of granular systems with varying particle sizes and shapes reveals a previously unreported size-shape coupling that affects the shear strength of granular media.

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Evolving ergodic flows in confined geometry

Akshay Seethamraju, R. Aravinda Narayanan, and V. Meenakshi

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032101 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

LETTER

Strong-coupling phases of conserved growth models are crumpled

Debayan Jana and Abhik Basu

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032102 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

LETTER

Scaling law for subdiffusive-to-diffusive transition time in heterogeneous nonequilibrium systems

Ming-Gen Li, He-Chuan Liu, Ling-Ling Du, Peng-Cheng Li, and Li-Ming Fan

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032103 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

LETTER

Optimizing quantum transport via the quantum Doob transform

Dolores Esteve, Carlos Pérez-Espigares, Ricardo Gutiérrez, and Daniel Manzano

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032104 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Resonant fragility and nonresonant robustness of Floquet eigenstates in kicked spin systems

Jesús A. Segura-Landa, Meenu Kumari, Daniel J. Nader, Sercan Hüsnügil, Ali SaraerToosi, and Sergio Lerma-Hernández

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032201 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

LETTER

Frequency extraction from invariant flows

Derong Xu, Yongjun Li, Yue Hao, and Sergei Nagaitsev

Phys. Rev. E 114, L032202 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Nonequilibrium scaling of drag forces in counterdriven fluid mixtures

Jonas Köglmayr, Florian Sammüller, and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. E 114, L033401 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

LETTER

Absorbing states govern the charging of vibrated grains

Michael R. Swift and Mike I. Smith

Phys. Rev. E 114, L033402 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and random-matrix-theory universality in few-body systems

Jiaozi Wang, Hua Yan, Robin Steinigeweg, and Jochen Gemmer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034101 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Dynamical critical properties of the random-bond three-state Potts model

Zeynep Demir Vatansever, Ulvi Kanbur, Mohammad Sadra Najafi, Muktish Acharyya, and Erol Vatansever

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034102 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Equivalent-neighbor $k$ -core percolation in two dimensions

Qiyuan Shi, Ming Li, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034103 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Factorization of solutions to generalized Feynman-Kac equations for jump-diffusion models

Victor E. Gluzberg and Yuri A. Katz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034104 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Staggering dominolike blast front motion in a one-dimensional cold gas

Taras Holovatch, Yuri Kozitsky, Krzysztof Pilorz, and Yurij Holovatch

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034105 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Nonequilibrium distribution for stochastic thermodynamics

Jean-Luc Garden

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034106 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Anomalous diffusion and ergodicity breaking of subordinated random diffusivity processes in harmonic potential

Xudong Wang, Zhenhai Wang, and Yao Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034107 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Universal correlations in local measurements directly probe effective diffusivity

Omer Granek

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034108 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Waiting-time-based entropy estimators in continuous space without Markovian events

Jonas H. Fritz and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034109 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Taming nonlinear energy diffusion: The case of time-crystal energy condensates

P. I. Hurtado and G. Cortés-Guillén

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034110 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

The authors study a model of heat conduction with a bulk driving mechanism resembling the effect of an external field. They find that they can induce the spontaneous formation of traveling energy condensates that exhibit robust long-range temporal order reminiscent of continuous time crystals.

Quantum field theory approach for multistage chemical kinetics in liquids

Roman V. Li, Oleg A. Igoshin, Evgeny B. Krissinel, and Pavel A. Frantsuzov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034111 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Diffusion disorder in the contact process

Valentin Anfray, Manisha Dhayal, Hong-Yan Shih, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034112 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Anisotropy can make a moving active fluid membrane rough or crumpled

Debayan Jana, Astik Haldar, and Abhik Basu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034113 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Emergent heavy-tailed distributions from a Markovian random walk

Henrique S. Lima and Evaldo M. F. Curado

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034114 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stability and breakdown of chiral motion in nonreciprocal flocking

Aditya Kumar Dutta, Swarnajit Chatterjee, Matthieu Mangeat, and Raja Paul

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034115 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Two intermingled species of active matter can exhibit coherent rotation or disorderly scrambling depending on their mutual interactions.

Correlation enhanced autonomous quantum battery charging via structured reservoirs

A. Khoudiri, A. El Allati, Y. Khlifi, K. El Anouz, and Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034116 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic theory of pattern formation in a generalized multispecies Vicsek model

Eloise Lardet, Letian Chen, and Thibault Bertrand

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034117 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Canonical criterion for third-order transitions identified by microcanonical inflection-point analysis

Fangfang Wang, Wei Liu, Kai Qi, Zidong Cui, Ying Tang, and Zengru Di

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034118 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Non-Hermitian symmetry breaking and Lee-Yang theory for quantum $X Y Z$ and clock models

Tian-Yi Gu and Gaoyong Sun

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034119 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Hierarchy in Gilbert's tessellation: Multifractal behavior

E. Consolini, B. Bonanni, and M. Fanfoni

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034120 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Stationary densities in a weakly nonconserving asymmetric exclusion process with finite resources

Sourav Pal and Abhik Basu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034121 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Arbitrary approximations of first-passage-time distributions in general time-continuous stochastic processes

Haowen Chen, Liying Zhou, Jiaqi Teng, Aimin Chen, and Tianshou Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034122 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Gauge anomaly and visible dissipation bounds in active matter

Hai Pham-Van

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034123 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Emergence of Tsallis statistics in Thomas-Fermi theory

Jean H. Y. Passos, Anna L. F. Lucchi, Max Jauregui, and Renio S. Mendes

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034124 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Statistical mechanics of the $N$ -queens problem

Zong-Yue Liu, Hai-Jun Liao, and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034125 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Slow mixing and emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional $Z_{2}$ gauge theory

Charles Stahl, Benedikt Placke, Vedika Khemani, and Yaodong Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034126 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Thermal melting of finite-time bonds

Debbie Zhuang and Dimitrios Fraggedakis

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034127 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Dynamical blockade in SU(1,1) quantum batteries via a neural network

M. Y. Abd-Rabbou, Ahmed A. Zahia, Amr M. Abdallah, and Cong-Feng Qiao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034128 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Diffusion with conserved marginal distributions and information theory in fracton hydrodynamics

Vaibhav Mohanty and Sunghan Ro

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034129 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Stochastic thermodynamics of quantum-induced stochastic dynamics

Pedro Ventura Paraguassú

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034130 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Group-theoretic upper bounds on reconstructability in inverse problems

Isshin Arai and Tomoaki Itano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034131 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Exact interpolation between Fick and Cattaneo diffusion in relativistic kinetic theory

L. Gavassino

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034132 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Phase correlations of a strongly scintillating light wave propagating through a turbulent medium

V. A. Bogachev, I. V. Kolokolov, V. V. Lebedev, A. V. Nemtseva, and F. A. Starikov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034133 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Emergent correlations in the selected link times along optimal paths

Iván Álvarez Domenech, Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, Pedro Córdoba-Torres, and Silvia N. Santalla

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034134 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Evolutionary design of thermodynamic logic gates and their heat emission

Stephen Whitelam

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034135 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Beyond dynamic scaling: Rare events break universality

Ulysse Marquis, Riccardo Gallotti, and Marc Barthelemy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034136 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Evidence of the de Almeida–Thouless transition in three-dimensional spin glasses

L. H. Miranda-Filho and Yuliang Jin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034137 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Lindbladian spectral statistics beyond no-jump Hamiltonians: Roles of recycling and Liouville-space structure

Dingzu Wang, Hao Zhu, Guo-Feng Zhang, and Dario Poletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034138 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Extended-range percolation for neighborhoods of rectangular shape on square lattice

Zhipeng Xun, Dapeng Hao, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034139 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Universal classical and quantum fluctuations in the large deviations of current of noisy quantum systems: Quantum symmetric simple exclusion and inclusion processes

Mathias Albert, Denis Bernard, Tony Jin, Stefano Scopa, and Shiyi Wei

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034140 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Breakdown of linear response induced by velocity-dependent stochastic resetting

Yuto Takeishi and Takuma Akimoto

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034141 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Kinetic temperatures and inertial effects in a nonequilibrium bead-spring model

Jetin E. Thomas and Ramandeep S. Johal

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034142 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Finite-time observability of oscillatory instabilities in synchronous p-bit dynamics

Naoya Onizawa, Shunsuke Koshita, and Takahiro Hanyu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034143 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Optimal control of a mesoscopic information engine

Emanuele Panizon

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034144 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Exploring the role of connectivity in disordered system

Anjan Daimari, Shivanee Borah, and Diana Thongjaomayum

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034145 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Velocity and force autocorrelations in Brownian dynamics with a Lorentz force

Filippo Faedi and Abhinav Sharma

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034146 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Grand-canonical-like thermalization of quantum many-body scars in kinetically constrained systems

Jia-Wei Wang, Xiang-Fa Zhou, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Wei Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034147 (2026) - Published 30 September, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Thermalization in a nonlinear variant of the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Yagmur Kati, Aleksandra Maluckov, Ana Mancic, and Panayotis Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034201 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Solvable model of noisy coupled oscillators with fully random interactions

Harukuni Ikeda

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034202 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Area-law entanglement in quantum chaotic systems

Chunyin Chen (陈椿尹), Sizhe Yan (闫思哲), and Biao Wu (吴飙)

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034203 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Optimal control of the generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation with energy- and entropy-based objectives

Hiroya Mamori, Yusuke Nabae, and Hiroshi Gotoda

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034204 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Spatial coevolutionary dynamics in population games with environmental feedbacks

Yi Zhong, Chuan Ding, and Xiaojie Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034205 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Coexistence of explosive and driven forms of remote synchronization in star networks

Siyu Huo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034206 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Kinetic energy in random recurrent neural networks

Li-Ru Zhang and Haiping Huang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034207 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

From clustering to global synchrony: Higher-order interactions reshape ecological network dynamics

Arzoo Narang and Partha Sharathi Dutta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034208 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Robust method to identify chimera states

S. Nirmala Jenifer, Riccardo Muolo, Paulsamy Muruganandam, and Timoteo Carletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034209 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Synchronization enhancement by dissipative coupling

Xiangshan Zeng (曾祥山), Jiongjie Wang (王炯杰), and Jiang Xiao (萧江)

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034210 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Spectral form factor and power spectrum for trapped interacting rotating bosons: Crossover from integrability to quantum chaos

Mohd Talib and M. A. H. Ahsan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034211 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Perturbation and asymptotic coefficient of restitution for the Hunt-Crossley collision under an external potential field

Zijian Liang and Hanbin Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034212 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Scrambling at the genesis of chaos

Thomas R. Michel, Mathias Steinhuber, Juan Diego Urbina, and Peter Schlagheck

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034213 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Emergent Wigner-Dyson statistics and self-attention-inspired prediction in driven Bose-Hubbard chains

Chen-Huan Wu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034214 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Prolonged chaotic transients for parametric noise-induced critical transitions: Formation mechanism and scaling law

Han Su and Yuan Yue

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034215 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Phase-locked excitations in Klein-Gordon systems

L. Friedland and A. G. Shagalov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034216 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Interaction process of exploding dissipative solitons

Orazio Descalzi and Helmut R. Brand

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034217 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Computation of slow manifolds using the isostable coordinate system

Dan Wilson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034218 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Finite-size effects in nonlinear mean-field coupled Kuramoto oscillators

Aman Mishra, V. K. Chandrasekar, and D. V. Senthilkumar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034219 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Manifold dimension identification for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation via a spectral convolutional autoencoder

Zi-Fei Meng, Yuquan Wang, Peng-Nan Sun, Boo Cheong Khoo, and A-Man Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034220 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Phase transitions in three-dimensional Kuramoto model under nonlinear mean-field coupling

Aman Mishra, V. K. Chandrasekar, and D. V. Senthilkumar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034221 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Sticky eigenstates in systems with sharply divided phase space

Hua Yan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034222 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Self-propulsion in the one-dimensional swarmalator model

Kevin P. O'Keeffe

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034223 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Role of asymmetric time delay and its structure in one-dimensional swarmalators

Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo, Gourab Kumar Sar, and Timoteo Carletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034224 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Instability of solutions in a mass-conserving reaction diffusion system

R. Marangell, J. J. Wylie, and B. H. Bradshaw-Hajek

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034225 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Quantum system reliability: A phase-encoded interference framework for interdependent and interconnected systems

S. Hooman Ghasemi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034301 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Community detection with the canonical ensemble

Rudy Arthur

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034302 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Nonlinear model reduction of complex networks via spectral submanifolds

Kaviya Bhaskaran, Shobhit Jain, and Mingwu Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034303 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Hidden higher-order vulnerabilities in simplicial complexes revealed by fixed-index spectral robustness

Kaiming Luo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034304 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Order parameter for morphodynamic transitions in braided rivers: A stochastic compositional framework

Samuele De Bartolo and Carlo De Michele

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034305 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Efficiency-fragility discontinuity: Dual thresholds and the deceptive safety zone in critical infrastructure networks

Paul F. Magoulick

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034306 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Introduction to random rule-based chemical networks

Jérémie Unterberger

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034307 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Inertial synchronization of networked oscillators in arbitrary dimensions

Kirill Kovalenko, Xiangfeng Dai, Fanshu Fang, Zerong Guo, Haoran Liu, Federico Botta, Charo I. del Genio, Stefano Boccaletti, and Simona Olmi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034308 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Emergence of contagious cooperation in community-structured networks

Vicente Vargas-Panesso, Nicanor Quijano, and Luis Felipe Giraldo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034309 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Multivariate stochastic coupling in unknown complex systems: Informative randomness in deterministic brain-body communication

Andrea Scarciglia, Vincenzo Catrambone, Claudio Bonanno, and Gaetano Valenza

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034310 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Emergence of generic first-passage-time distributions for large Markovian networks

Julian B. Voits and Ulrich S. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034311 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Curvature in infectious disease network: A metric for vaccination and control

Sara Najem

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034312 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Analytical framework for the approximate master equation

Yu Takiguchi and Takehisa Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034313 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Anomalous scaling in redirection networks

Harrison Hartle, P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner, and Yuanzhao Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034314 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Articulation points in multiplex networks

Artem Vergazov, Saeed Osat, and Vladimir V. Palyulin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034315 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Emergence of cooperation in nonlinear higher-order public goods games

Jaume Llabrés, Onkar Sadekar, Federico Malizia, and Federico Battiston

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034316 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Biological Physics

Frenet frame analysis of protein geometry: Hints for secondary structure assignments

M. Prados, M. D. Hernández, and F. de Soto

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034401 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reduced finite-dimensional model of two-dimensional protein cluster formation

Kevin Chen and Paul C. Bressloff

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034402 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thin active nematohydrodynamic layers: Asymptotic theories and instabilities

Mehrana R. Nejad and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034403 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TechnicalAdvancement

Game played by tandem-running ants: Hint of procedural rationality

Joy Das Bairagya, Udipta Chakraborti, Sumana Annagiri, and Sagar Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034404 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Information retention by synaptic learning rules in stochastic spiking neural networks

Rich Pang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034405 (2026) - Published 9 September, 2026

Dominance switching between substrate adhesion and curvature in directional collective cell migration

Bing Qi, Jianwen Li, Xinxin Lv, Xi-Qiao Feng, and Jing Du

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034406 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Limits of optimal decoding under synaptic coarse-tuning

Ori Hendler, Ronen Segev, and Maoz Shamir

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034407 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Context-dependent adaptation in a neural computation

Charles J. Edelson, Sima Setayeshgar, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034408 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Force-extension model of cellular membrane extrusion

Fabio Manca and Stefano Giordano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034409 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #Interdisciplinary #TechnicalAdvancement

Cell-cell adhesion as a double-edged sword in tissue fluidity

Anh Q. Nguyen, Pradip K. Bera, Jacob Notbohm, and Dapeng Bi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034410 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Growth bistability in small bacterial populations exposed to antibiotics

B. Ledoux and D. Lacoste

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034411 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

MesoMem: A mesoscale membrane model based on an additive potential

Pietro Sillano, Siewert J. Marrink, and Timon Idema

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034412 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Polarized neutrons for the study of individual and collective fast dynamics in proteins

Agathe Nidriche, Jacques Ollivier, J. Ross Stewart, and Judith Peters

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034413 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Avalanche assemblies in arbitrary connection topologies

Maik Schünemann, Marc Kesseböhmer, and Udo Ernst

Phys. Rev. E 114, 034414 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Strong wave turbulence in strongly local large- $N$ theories

Vladimir Rosenhaus and Daniel Schubring

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035101 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Formation of magnetic particle clusters in shear thinning fluids: A first approach

Daniela Dávalos Ruedas, R. E. Moctezuma, and J. Rodrigo Vélez-Cordero

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035102 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Diode effect of a rarefied binary gas mixture flowing through a long conical capillary

Mingming Gu, Zilong Deng, and Yongping Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035103 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Time-dependent pore-network modeling of Ostwald ripening in porous media

Ademola Isaac Adebimpe, Sajjad Foroughi, Branko Bijeljic, and Martin J. Blunt

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035104 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Optimizing injection protocols in Hele-Shaw displacements: A trade-off between swept area and injection time

Anna Luiza M. B. Mattos, Rafael M. Oliveira, Pedro H. A. Anjos, and Eduardo O. Dias

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035105 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Quantum reconnection of an inclined vortex ring with a straight vortex line: Energy distribution and geometric analysis

Martina Luise, Nicola Sansonetto, and Simone Zuccher

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035106 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Plasma Physics

Laser induced fluorescence of singly ionized atomic iodine: Measurements in the plasma source of an electric propulsion device

Romain Pioch, Marie-Alix Sagnimorte, Benjamin Esteves, and Cyril Drag

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035201 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Finite dissipation anomaly in collisionless plasma turbulence

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Subash Adhikari, Yan Yang, and William H. Matthaeus

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035202 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Configuration path integral Monte Carlo with atomic orbitals

Jingwei Xing and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035203 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Nonlinear sensitivity and kinetic breakdown of dust-acoustic rogue waves in binary dusty plasmas

Fei-Yun Ding, Fei-Fei Li, Juan-Fang Han, and Wen-Shan Duan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035204 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Effects of nonideal conditions on resonantly enhanced betatron radiation in a plasma undulator

Xinyang Liu, Yuhui Xia, Letian Liu, Zhiyan Yang, Zewei Xu, Zhuo Pan, Xuezhi Wu, Xueqing Yan, Chen Lin, and Xinlu Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035205 (2026) - Published 4 September, 2026

Characterizing the temporal evolution of Biermann-battery-driven magnetic reconnection in laser-ablated plasmas

T. Morita et al.

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035206 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Acceleration and deceleration of ion beam due to Cherenkov interaction with ion-acoustic waves

A. A. Shelkovoy and S. A. Uryupin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035207 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Faster-than-adiabatic cooling of non-neutral plasmas

Jan Bartsch, Alfio Borzì, Paul-Antoine Hervieux, and Giovanni Manfredi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035208 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

#TimelyTopic #TechnicalAdvancement #ClearMotivation

Kinetic gating of a rheological inversion in a dusty-plasma vortex-lobe pair

Adrian Scurtu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035209 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Plasmon-enhanced proton acceleration by extended planar resonant nanoantennas

K. Zsukovszki, I. Papp, and L. P. Csernai

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035210 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

Near-wall pathways of anomalous electron transport in Hall thrusters revealed by three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations

Zhe Liu, Zhongping Zhao, and Yinjian Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035211 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Cone-guided phase-space control of laser-driven proton beams

S. Chintalwad and David J. Stark

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035212 (2026) - Published 22 September, 2026

Nonthermal electron acceleration and transition probability density in turbulent wakefields driven by an intense laser pulse

Yao-Li Liu and Yasuhiro Kuramitsu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035213 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Leveling of MHD turbulence imbalance in shear flows

Mariami Kavtaradze, George Mamatsashvili, George Chagelishvili, and Elene Uchava

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035214 (2026) - Published 24 September, 2026

Impact of ion-electron collisions on nonlocal ion heat conduction, viscous stress, and diffusion

Nicholas Mitchell, David Chapman, and Grigory Kagan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035215 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026

Inference of thermodynamic conditions in convergent high-energy-density-physics experiments

E. A. Smith, J. J. Ruby, D. A. Chin, D. T. Bishel, M. E. Signor, T. E. Evans, K. N. Lofton, N. V. Kabadi, J. R. Rygg, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035216 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Learnability window in gated recurrent neural networks

Lorenzo Livi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035301 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Semidefinite programming for quantum channel learning

Mikhail Gennadievich Belov, Victor Victorovich Dubov, Vadim Konstantinovich Ivanov, Alexander Yurievich Maslov, Olga Vladimirovna Proshina, and Vladislav Gennadievich Malyshkin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035302 (2026) - Published 10 September, 2026

GPU-accelerated sequential Monte Carlo for Bayesian spectral analysis

Tomohiro Nabika, Yui Hayashi, and Masato Okada

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035303 (2026) - Published 11 September, 2026

Stabilizing generative adversarial networks with adaptive noise injection

Yamin Zhang, Fabing Duan, François Chapeau-Blondeau, and Derek Abbott

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035304 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Better together: Cross and joint covariances enhance signal detectability in undersampled data

Arabind Swain, Sean Alexander Ridout, and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035305 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Random matrix theory reveals that analyzing joint or cross-covariance matrices detects shared signals between high-dimensional variables earlier than standard individual self-covariances under heavy sampling noise.

Digital-analog concept for superconducting perceptron-like neural networks

Andrey E. Schegolev, Vsevolod I. Ruzhickiy, Georgy I. Gubochkin, Alexander S. Ionin, Ivan A. Nazhestkin, Mikhail Y. Fominskii, Lyudmila V. Filippenko, Igor I. Soloviev, Maxim V. Tereshonok, and Nikolay V. Klenov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035306 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

Lattice Boltzmann methods with anisotropic equilibrium distributions

Benjamin Kellers, Julius Weinmiller, Arnulf Latz, and Timo Danner

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035307 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Discovering interpretable low-dimensional dynamics using maximum entropy

Michael C. Chung, Tarran Mohan, Purushottam D. Dixit, and Juan Guan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035308 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Liquid and solid layers in a thermal deep-learning machine

Gang Huang, Lai Shun Chan, Hajime Yoshino, Ge Zhang, and Yuliang Jin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035309 (2026) - Published 28 September, 2026

Time-nonlocal internal-variable LB-PF model for continuous nucleation during dendritic solidification

Borui Zhao and Dongke Sun

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035310 (2026) - Published 29 September, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Collective turns in spinless flocks

Joao Lizárraga and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035401 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Mechanisms leading to axial segregation of bidisperse particles in rotating tumblers

Umberto D'Ortona, Richard M. Lueptow, and Nathalie Thomas

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035402 (2026) - Published 1 September, 2026

Diffuse-interface theory of active nematic interfaces: Transport mechanisms and modal structure

Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Mykola Tasinkevych, and Margarida M. Telo da Gama

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035403 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Evolutionary chemical learning in dimerization networks

Alexei V. Tkachenko, Bortolo Matteo Mognetti, and Sergei Maslov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035404 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Granular clogging across gravities: A unified scaling

Oliver Gaida, Olfa D'Angelo, and Jonathan E. Kollmer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035405 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

#UniversalBehavior #ClearMotivation

Correlated disorder suppresses solitary-wave attenuation in Hertzian chains

Leopoldo R. Gómez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035406 (2026) - Published 2 September, 2026

Phase separation kinetics of two-temperature induced phase transition at low density: Cluster growth by ballistic agglomeration

Nayana Venkatareddy, Partha Sarathi Mondal, Shradha Mishra, and Prabal K. Maiti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035407 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Intruder dynamics in granular media under localized surface loading

E. M. Franklin, B. Darbois Texier, A. Seguin, D. D. Carvalho, and Y. Bertho

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035408 (2026) - Published 3 September, 2026

Pattern formation and stick-slip dynamics in binary particle assemblies with rotating drives

C. Reichhardt and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035409 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Physical signatures of supercritical fluid boundaries

Sha Jin, Xinyang Li, Xue Fan, Matteo Baggioli, and Yuliang Jin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035410 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Theory of $β$ relaxation beyond mode-coupling theory: A microscopic treatment

Corentin C. L. Laudicina, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, and Grzegorz Szamel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035411 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Critical scaling for dense granular flow between parallel plates near jamming

Michio Otsuki, Kenta Hayashi, and Kiwamu Yoshii

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035412 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Inferring surface slip in active colloids from flow fields using physics-informed neural networks

Parvin Bayati and Stewart A. Mallory

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035413 (2026) - Published 8 September, 2026

Attraction-induced cluster fragmentation and local alignment in active particle systems

Sota Shimamura, Nen Saito, and Shuji Ishihara

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035414 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Shear-induced pressure localization in granular materials of nonspherical particles

Huzaif Rahim, Sudeshna Roy, and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035415 (2026) - Published 14 September, 2026

Slow glassy dynamics and fragile-to-strong crossover in supercooled aqueous magnesium perchlorate solutions: The effect of Martian solutes

P. La Francesca, L. Lupi, and P. Gallo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035416 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Polar chiral active matter as a motile, disordered Josephson array: Information supercurrents and Goldstone spin waves

Magnus F Ivarsen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035417 (2026) - Published 15 September, 2026

Activity-enhanced ordering in fluctuation-induced first-order transitions

Suvendra K. Sahoo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035418 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Stochastic model and optimal controls of an active tracking particle with information processing

Tai Han and Fanlong Meng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035419 (2026) - Published 16 September, 2026

Inertial and crowding influence of drift reversal in chiral fluids

Ze-long Gao, Rui-xue Guo, Jia-jian Li, and Bao-quan Ai

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035420 (2026) - Published 17 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth-driven avalanche behavior in bacterial monolayers

Blake Langeslay, Ethan A. Mullen, Gabriel Juarez, and Karin A. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035421 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #AdvancingField

Local elastic perturbation of colloidal suspensions near the colloidal glass transition

Piotr Habdas, Rachel E. Courtland, and Eric R. Weeks

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035422 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Flexible simulation framework for polymer-attenuated Coulombic self-assembly

Philipp Höllmer, Nicole Smina, John P. Marquardt, Michael S. Chen, Steven van Kesteren, Stefano Sacanna, and Glen M. Hocky

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035423 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Permeability of deforming soft particle packs

Jérémie Vasseur, Fabian B. Wadsworth, Jingwei Zhang, and Yan Lavallée

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035424 (2026) - Published 18 September, 2026

Asymmetry-induced chiral dynamics in coupled self-propelled robots: Spinning and circular motion

Priyanka, Nitin Kumar, and Harsh Soni

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035425 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental evidence of grain size-shape correlation effects on the critical-state shear strength of granular media

Quyen Le Van, Carlos Ovalle, Emilien Azéma, Mathieu Renouf, Jonathan Barés, Sylvain Buonomo, and Arcesio Lizcano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035426 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation

Ordered interfacial assembly of rough microellipsoids

Md Anisur Rahman and Peter J. Beltramo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035427 (2026) - Published 21 September, 2026

Mechanical desorption of a multiblock copolymer chain end-grafted to an impenetrable flat surface

Alexey A. Polotsky

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035428 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

Melting of colloidal crystal in a two-dimensional periodic substrate: Switch from a single crossover to two-stage melting

Akhilesh M P and Toby Joseph

Phys. Rev. E 114, 035429 (2026) - Published 23 September, 2026

COMMENTS

Comment on “Lightning as a natural source of synchrotron radiation of x-ray and gamma-ray photons”

M. L. Shmatov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 037201 (2026) - Published 25 September, 2026