Volume 114, Issue 5 (partial)

November 2026

Browse Issues:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anisotropic diffusion in a layer of varying thickness

Pavol Kalinay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054104 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

In order to describe diffusion of a particle in a thin layer of varying thickness, the author uses a mapping procedure originally derived for one-dimensional channels to obtain an effective two-dimensional equation. The resulting description of diffusion in such a confined geometry can be useful for systems like particles moving in thin films and particle separators.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental demonstration of beam-driven wakefield acceleration in laser-plasma filament

M. Galletti, L. Verra, A. Biagioni, M. Carillo, L. Crincoli, R. Demitra, G. Di Pirro, G. Parise, R. Pompili, F. Stocchi, F. Villa, A. Zigler, and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

This paper reports an experimental demonstration of beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration in which the plasma is produced by laser filamentation of low-pressure nitrogen inside a capillary. Results demonstrate that filament-generated plasmas are a viable plasma source offering operational reproducibility.

#TimelyTopic #TheoryExperiment

LETTERS

Plasma Physics

LETTER

Ultrastrong quantum squeezing mediated by plasma waves

Kenan Qu and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. E 114, L053201 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Mechanics, Interfaces, and Films

LETTER

Stretching and bending of very thick elastic beams

Shiheng Zhao (赵世恒) and Pierre A. Haas

Phys. Rev. E 114, L053501 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Seismic entropic analysis based on magnitudes and time intervals

Eugenio E. Vogel, D. Pastén, and G. Saravia

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Lévy walks with permanent immobilization characterized by non-normalized flight time distribution

Heyu Yuan and Xudong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Maximum entropy models of neuronal populations at and off criticality

T. S. A. N. Simões, F. Lombardi, D. Plenz, H. J. Herrmann, and L. de Arcangelis

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054103 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anisotropic diffusion in a layer of varying thickness

Pavol Kalinay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054104 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Enhanced dumbbell diffusion in a periodic potential by the elevator effect

B. A. Kiang and H. Schiessel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054105 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Noise-driven velocity selection in persistent reaction random walks: Renormalization theory and numerical validation

D. C. Bitang Á Ziem

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054106 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Impact of quenched disorder and multiphoton interaction on the dynamics of a quantum battery

Azam Mirzaei, Hamid Reza Baghshahi, and Mohammad Javad Faghihi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054107 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Negative quasiprobability trajectories for Bell-diagonal states under local decoherence

Qing Yu, Kun Zhang, Yang-Yang Chen, and Xiao-Hui Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054108 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Advantages of small-view visually aligned active particles in competing for nutrient resources

Maoping Zhang and Weirong Zhong

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054109 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Scaling of long-range loop-erased random walks

Tianning Xiao, Xianzhi Pan, Zhijie Fan, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054110 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Exact amplitude relations for diffusion-limited aggregation

Thomas C. Halsey

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054111 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Scaling behavior of bifurcation delay in coupled oscillators with unequal time scales

Deepak Rawat, Awadhesh Prasad, and Suresh Kumarasamy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Composite gap solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with an asymmetric bichromatic superlattice and spatially modulated nonlinearity

Tongyu Wu and Tianfu Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054202 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Complex spacing ratio statistics in the partially open asymmetric quantum baker map

Leonardo Ermann, Pablo Sesin, Alejandro M. F. Rivas, Pablo Bergamasco, and Gabriel G. Carlo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054203 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Recurrent behavior in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice

Guo Deng, Andrea Pezzi, Genghong Lin, and Miguel Onorato

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054204 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Universal features in atmospheric particulate matter dynamics

Suchismita Banerjee, Koyena Ghosh, Urna Basu, and Banasri Basu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054205 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Hysteretic synchronization transitions induced by adaptive phase frustration

Junyi Zheng, Changgui Gu, Jiangsheng Wang, and Yuxuan Song

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054206 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Machine learning prediction of explosive death in coupled oscillator networks

Zhonghua Zhang, Liang Wang, Xinyi Li, Ludovico Minati, Michael Small, Stefano Boccaletti, and Wei Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054207 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Human population dynamics as a Bayesian inverse transport problem

Chong Qi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054301 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Noise color shapes power grid stochastic responses

Longxin Yang and Xiaozhu Zhang (张潇竹)

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054302 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Mass media interventions and social reinforcements drive rumor propagation

Yafang Dong, Liang'an Huo, Matjaž Perc, and Stefano Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054303 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Percolation transition of strongly connected clusters in finite dimensions and on complete graphs

Qi Wang and Ming Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054304 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Long-range social pressure and the evolution of cooperation in multiplex networks

María Pereda and Gabrielle Muller

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054305 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Framework for proto-immunity in open chemical reaction networks

Yannick De Decker

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054306 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Ecological networks of viable species with degree-dependent interaction

Hae Seong Lee, Deok-Sun Lee, Sang Hoon Lee, Samir Suweis, and Hye Jin Park

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054307 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Biological Physics

Theory of semidiscontinuous DNA replication

Janani G and Deepak Bhat

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Autotaxis of a run-and-tumble agent via reinforcement learning

Ramesh Pramanik, Shradha Mishra, and Sakuntala Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054402 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Multiagent rendezvous in fluid flows via reinforcement learning

Bocheng Li, Jingran Qiu, and Lihao Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Ultrahigh tensile strength of water confined in carbon nanotubes: Mechanism and relevance to long-distance water transport in tall trees

Si-Qi Yu, Xiao-Yan Zhou, and Hang-Jun Lu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Plasma Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental demonstration of beam-driven wakefield acceleration in laser-plasma filament

M. Galletti, L. Verra, A. Biagioni, M. Carillo, L. Crincoli, R. Demitra, G. Di Pirro, G. Parise, R. Pompili, F. Stocchi, F. Villa, A. Zigler, and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

#TimelyTopic #TheoryExperiment