Volume 111, Issue 6

June 2025

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Voter model can accurately predict individual opinions in online populations

Antoine Vendeville

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064310 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

The voter model is a widely studied model of opinion dynamics. While its theoretical behavior is well understood, its capability to match empirical observations needed assessing. The author applied the voter model to fine-grained Twitter data collected during the 2017 French presidential election. Using a directed, weighted retweet network where political entities act as zealots with immutable opinions, the authors computed individual equilibrium opinion distributions and found a high correspondence, with over 92.5% accuracy, between the model’s predictions and users’ declared political affiliations. The results adds significantly to the body of evidence for the empirical validity of the voter model.

#AdvancingField #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entropy and singular-value moments of products of truncated random unitary matrices

C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064108 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Products of truncated unitary matrices can be used to study monitored quantum circuits, and this work focuses on the statistics of the singular values of these matrix products. The author finds that in a scaling limit, the first six moments of the squared singular values follow a pattern described by a known special function, and this pattern may hold generally. An application to the von Neumann entropy of a simple model for measurement-induced purification in a monitored quantum circuit is also presented.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

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Systematic analysis of critical exponents in continuous dynamical phase transitions of weak noise theories

Timo Schorlepp and Ohad Shpielberg

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064113 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Dynamical phase transitions are nonequilibrium counterparts of thermodynamic phase transitions. In this work, the authors take advantage of similarities between these transitions to develop a general framework for calculating critical exponents of dynamical phase transitions in weak noise systems. They demonstrate that the critical exponents can be classified into three distinct universality classes, depending on the boundary conditions of the system.

#UniversalBehavior #WellStructured

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El Niño and droughts in Southeast Asia: A stochastic-chaotic modeling approach

Davide Faranda, Yuzuru Sato, Chenyu Dong, Adriano Gualandi, Robin Noyelle, Tommaso Alberti, Berengere Dubrulle, Lucas Fery, Gabriele Messori, Mathieu Vrac, Pradeebane Vaittinada Ayar, Pascal Yiou, and Gianmarco Mengaldo

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064209 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Prolonged dry conditions associated with El Niño events have significant socioeconomic impacts across Southeast Asia, a region already vulnerable to water scarcity. However, the precise relationship between El Niño and these extended dry spells remains unclear, with only a few strong El Niño events triggering severe dry conditions. The authors’ model captures the stochastic dynamics behind this link. By simulating both chaotic and stable climate states, the model illustrates how atmospheric patterns interact with El Niño to produce persistent dry conditions in a nonsystematic way. This understanding is essential for improving drought predictions and preparing effective response strategies as climate change intensifies these events.

#AdvancingField #ElegantVisuals #TimelyTopic

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal features of epidemic and vaccine models

Sourav Chowdhury, Indrani Bose, Suparna Roychowdhury, and Indranath Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064316 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025

In the study of epidemic spreading the Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) model is a classic one. The authors extend the traditional deterministic framework to a stochastic one, including stochastic perturbations as well as the effects of immigration and vaccination. The augmented model reveals noise-induced transitions and a switch between unimodal and bimodal steady-state probability distributions. Additionally, the authors build a vaccination hesitancy model and fit it to real Covid-19 data. Overall, the work combines theoretical analysis with practical relevance.

#AdvancingField #ClearMotivation #TimelyTopic

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport properties of the motor protein UNC-104 are robust and independent of changes in its cargo binding

Amir Shee, Vidur Sabharwal, Sandhya P. Koushika, Amitabha Nandi, and Debasish Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064404 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Combining fluorescent microscopy with theory, this study examines the distribution of cargo-bound UNC-104, a motor protein in $C$ . $e l e g a n s$ neurons. Results show that ubiquitin-like knockdowns enhance cargo binding, but do not alter the axonal distribution or transport properties of the motor protein.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

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Nonlinear continuum description of the E. coli cell wall under high turgor pressure

Octavio Albarrán, Renata Garcés, Giacomo Po, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Jeff D. Eldredge

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064405 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Bacterial cell walls maintain integrity under high turgor pressure through a covalently linked peptidoglycan network. This study models the $E$ . $c o l i$ cell wall using a hyperelastic framework, suggesting that strain hardening underlies pressure-dependent stiffness and providing insights for further quantitative studies.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #Interdisciplinary

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Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation, reverse electrodialysis, and everything in between

Yoav Green

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064408 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025

The Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz model has long guided transport analysis in nanopores and ion channels. This paper (with a companion paper in Physical Review Letters) revisits the model, showing that its constant electric field assumption leads to inconsistencies. A new self-consistent theory, inspired by reverse electrodialysis, offers a unified framework for ion transport.

#AdvancingField #BiophysicsSpotlight

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Influence of boundary geometry on active patterns

Jigyasa Watwani, Sakshi Pahujani, V. Jemseena, Vishal Vasan, and K. Vijay Kumar

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064409 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Mechanochemical patterns in the actomyosin cortex are known to drive many cellular processes. However, the role of boundary geometry in regulating these patterns remains largely unexplored. This study uses a hydrodynamic model to show how domain curvature and active stress shape distinct spatial patterns in the cortex, consistent with experimental observations in geometrically confined cells.

#Interdisciplinary #TheoryExperiment

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Capacitive response of biological membranes

Jafar Farhadi, Joshua B. Fernandes, Karthik Shekhar, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064412 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

This paper examines the charging dynamics of an impermeable membrane separating two electrolyte solutions when the system is subject to a step change in applied voltage. The authors find that the membrane charging dynamics exhibits two time scales – a fast capacitive time scale and a slow diffusion timescale. The work provides a new perspective on classic voltage-clamp studies in the literature. Recent work suggests that the capacitive timescale may govern charging and discharging of biological membranes in a wide range of scenarios.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClassicProblem

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Relative knot probabilities in confined lattice polygons

E. J. Janse van Rensburg, E. Orlandini, and M. C. Tesi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065406 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Knots in polymers can affect their physical properties. Using Monte Carlo algorithms, the authors examine the relative probabilities of various types of knots in a lattice model of ring polymers confined in a cavity. The results may be relevant for systems such as a biopolymer in a cavity or in a space between membranes.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #ClassicProblem #AdvancingField

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Exploring water's no-man's land

Peter Lunkenheimer, Daniel Reuter, Arthur Schulz, Martin Wolf, and Alois Loidl

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065408 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Investigating water’s controversial glass transition and a possible fragile-strong transition (FST) within its supercooled state is hampered by the inevitable crystallization in a temperature range termed “no-man’s land” (NML). Supercooled water is particularly important because many peculiarities of liquid water may be traced back to the proposed FST. Moreover, glassy water seems to be prevalent in outer space. In this study, the authors explore the NML by extreme broadband dielectric measurements applied to pure water and solutions with a small salt content, quenched to avoid crystallization. They report strong hints of FST in water and address the controversy about its different glass-transition temperatures.

#AdvancingField #WellStructured #OpenDebate

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Far-from-equilibrium complex landscapes

Laura Guislain and Eric Bertin

Phys. Rev. E 111, L062101 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

LETTER

Charging a quantum spin network with superextensive precision

Beatrice Donelli, Stefano Gherardini, Raffaele Marino, Francesco Campaioli, and Lorenzo Buffoni

Phys. Rev. E 111, L062102 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

LETTER

Macroscopic irreversibility in quantum systems: Free expansion in a fermionic chain

Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. E 111, L062103 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (West Antarctica) is more sensitive to climate conditions than to rheological parameters on multidecadal timescales

Olga Sergienko

Phys. Rev. E 111, L062201 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf located In West Antarctica is one of the regions with the fastest rate of climate change. Its climate is affected by oceanic and atmospheric circulations and the ice-shelf interactions with them. In addition to the climate conditions, the ice-shelf behavior also strongly depends on the ice rheological parameters. Using remote-sensing observations, inverse methods and numerical models, this study demonstrates that on multidecadal timescales, climate conditions that determine submarine melting have stronger effects on Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf than its rheological properties.

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Long-range correlations under temperature gradients: A molecular dynamics study of simple fluids

Hiroyoshi Nakano and Kazuma Yokota

Phys. Rev. E 111, L063401 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Fluctuations of dynamical observables in linear diffusions with time delay: A Riccati-based approach

M. L. Rosinberg, G. Tarjus, and T. Munakata

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064101 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Transverse collective excitations in liquids: Is the phonon theory of liquid thermodynamics correct?

Taras Bryk and Giancarlo Ruocco

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064102 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Integrability versus chaos in the steady state of many-body open quantum systems

Josef Richter, Lucas Sá, and Masudul Haque

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064103 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Universal tail of the probability density function of the intensity of light propagating in a turbulent medium

I. V. Kolokolov and V. V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064104 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Driven Lorentz gas model in the discrete time domain

Dan Shafir, Alessio Squarcini, Stanislav Burov, and Thomas Franosch

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064105 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

One-way catalysis in a solvable lattice model

Sara Mahdavi, Yann Sakref, and Olivier Rivoire

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064106 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Precision bounds for multiple currents in open quantum systems

Saulo V. Moreira, Marco Radaelli, Alessandro Candeloro, Felix C. Binder, and Mark T. Mitchison

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064107 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entropy and singular-value moments of products of truncated random unitary matrices

C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064108 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Expansion into the vacuum of stochastic gases with long-range interactions

P. L. Krapivsky and Kirone Mallick

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064109 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025

Rapid state-recrossing kinetics and slow escape kinetics in non-Markovian systems

Qingyuan Zhou, Artur Bakaev, Laura Lavacchi, Roland R. Netz, and Benjamin A. Dalton

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064110 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025

Vibrating sandpiles: An example of systems with directionality transition

J. Cheraghalizadeh, N. Arghand, and M. N. Najafi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064111 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Optimal number of agents in a collective search and when to launch them

Hugues Meyer and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064112 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Systematic analysis of critical exponents in continuous dynamical phase transitions of weak noise theories

Timo Schorlepp and Ohad Shpielberg

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064113 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

#UniversalBehavior #WellStructured

Family-Vicsek scaling in classical nucleation theory

Vladimir G. Dubrovskii

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064114 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Relaxation behavior near the first-order phase transition line

Xiaobing Li, Ranran Guo, Mingmei Xu, Jinghua Fu, Lizhu Chen, Yu Zhou, and Yuanfang Wu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064115 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Ancilla measurement-based quantum Otto engine using double-pair spin architecture

S. R. Rathnakaran and Asoka Biswas

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064116 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Entanglement-assisted charging of quantum batteries within optomechanical framework

Abbas Shokri, Esfandyar Faizi, and Mohammad B. Arjmandi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064117 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Resonant diffusion of Debye Brownian oscillators in weakly tilted periodic potentials

Lin Miao, He-Chuan Liu, Jing-Xue Sun, Peng-Cheng Li, Jing-Dong Bao, and Ming-Gen Li

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064118 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Simulating work extraction in a dinuclear quantum battery using a variational quantum algorithm

Lucas Q. Galvão, Ana Clara das Neves, Maron F. Anka, and Clebson Cruz

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064119 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Stochastic thermodynamics of a two-dimensional model of transistors

Jiayin Gu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064120 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Competition between shape anisotropy and deformation in the ordering and close packing properties of quasi-one-dimensional hard superellipse fluids

Sakineh Mizani, Martin Oettel, Péter Gurin, and Szabolcs Varga

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064121 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Role of random interaction connection in the order transition of active matter based on the Vicsek model

Ruizhi Jin and Kejun Dong

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064122 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Interactive anisotropic walks in two dimensions generated from a three-state opinion dynamics model

Surajit Saha and Parongama Sen

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064123 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Effective description of Taylor dispersion in strongly corrugated channels

Arthur Alexandre, Thomas Guérin, and David S. Dean

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064124 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Machine-learning study of phase transitions in Ising, Blume-Capel, and Ising-metamagnet models

Vasanth Kumar Babu and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064125 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium critical dynamics of the three-dimensional Heisenberg model with random cubic anisotropy

A. Astillero and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064126 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Generation of non-Maxwell-Boltzmann energy distributions during thermalization of interacting baths

Roberto Onofrio and Bala Sundaram

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064127 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Viscosity as the product of its ideal low-concentration value and a thermodynamic function

L. Marchioni, M. A. Di Muro, and M. Hoyuelos

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064128 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Nonstationary critical phenomena: Expanding the critical point

Richard E. Spinney and Richard G. Morris

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064129 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

$1 / f$ noise in the Ising model

Rahul Chhimpa and Avinash Chand Yadav

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064130 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Steady state and relaxation dynamics of run-and-tumble particles in contact with a heat bath

R. K. Singh and Oded Farago

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064131 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Localized fermions on the triangular lattice with Ising-like interactions

Lubomíra Regeciová and Konrad Jerzy Kapcia

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064132 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Trends in spatial correlations, two-phase coexistence, and criticality in a class of type-2 Schloegl models for autocatalysis

Da-Jiang Liu, Zheren Shen, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064134 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Theory of irreversibility in quantum many-body systems

Takato Yoshimura and Lucas Sá

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064135 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Impact of environmental stochastic fluctuations on the red-king effect in interspecific mutualism

Hui Zhang, Yi Tao, and Cong Li

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064201 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Chaotic magnetization dynamics in magnetic Duffing oscillator

Ryo Tatsumi, Takahiro Chiba, Takashi Komine, and Hiroaki Matsueda

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064202 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Dynamics of ring solitons in an expanding cloud of a Bose-Einstein condensate

A. M. Kamchatnov, B. I. Suleimanov, and E. N. Tsoy

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064203 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Classical periodic orbits in extended phase space for spherical harmonic oscillator with spin-orbit coupling

Ken-ichiro Arita

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064204 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

Permutation entropy for the characterization of the attractive Hamiltonian mean-field model

Melissa G. Fuentealba, Danilo M. Rivera, and Roberto E. Navarro

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064205 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

Anticipating synchronization in electrochemical systems

R. Vidal, J. Escalona, M. Rivera, A. Flores-Rosas, Fernando Montoya, Tanushree Roy, and P. Parmananda

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064206 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

Tightly self-trapped modes and vortices in three-dimensional bosonic condensates with electromagnetically induced gravity

Zibin Zhao, Guilong Li, Huanbo Luo, Bin Liu, Gui-hua Chen, Boris A. Malomed, and Yongyao Li

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064207 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Robust methods to detect coupling among nonlinear dynamic time series

Timothy Sauer and George Sugihara

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064208 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

El Niño and droughts in Southeast Asia: A stochastic-chaotic modeling approach

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064209 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #ElegantVisuals #TimelyTopic

Multicircular static patterns in swarmalator systems: Radii and stability

Udo Schilcher, Marcus Schref, and Christian Bettstetter

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064210 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Bifurcations and resonances in a birhythmic Hindmarsh-Rose neuron model with different spikes

Jinyi Chen and Lijuan Ning

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064211 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

Families of discrete breathers on a nonlinear kagome lattice

Andrew Hofstrand

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064212 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Universal phase transition and scalings of phase oscillators with partial adaptive coupling

Wenhan Xu and Can Xu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064213 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Characterization of the chaotic phase in the tilted Bose-Hubbard model

Pilar Martín Clavero and Alberto Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064214 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Nondegenerate Akhmediev breathers arising from the instability of three-wave resonant interaction

Yu-Han Wu, Yang Ren, and Ming-Liang Hu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064215 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Geometrical representation of dynamical symmetries in ordinal pattern analysis of time series

Ben Ansbacher, Andrés Aragoneses, and Arjendu K. Pattanayak

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064216 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Turbulence spreading and anomalous diffusion on combs

Alexander V. Milovanov, Alexander Iomin, and Jens Juul Rasmussen

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064217 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Parrondo's paradox in space-inhomogeneous quantum walks

Zbigniew Walczak and Jarosław H. Bauer

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064218 (2025) - Published 25 June, 2025

Transitions to synchronization in adaptive multilayer networks with higher-order interactions

Richita Ghosh, Md Sayeed Anwar, Dibakar Ghosh, Jürgen Kurths, and Manish Dev Shrimali

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064219 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Networks and Complex Systems

Alternative expression of message passing on networks

Peter Mann and Simon Dobson

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064301 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Graph-based descriptors for condensed matter

An Wang and Gabriele C. Sosso

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064302 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

Analysis of a voter model with an evolving number of opinion states

Jeehye Choi, Byungjoon Min, and Tobias Galla

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064303 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Differential migration in a finite-island model and the evolution of cooperation

Dhaker Kroumi and Sabin Lessard

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064304 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Semianalytical solution of SEIR-like models of epidemic spreading

Ian Sa Pacheco, Carlos A. M. Carvalho Junior, and Daniel A. Stariolo

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064305 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Approximation for return time distributions of random walks on sparse networks

Erik Hormann, Renaud Lambiotte, and George T. Cantwell

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064306 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Decoding fairness: A reinforcement learning perspective

Guozhong Zheng, Jiqiang Zhang, Xin Ou, Shengfeng Deng, and Li Chen

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064307 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Evidence of replica symmetry breaking under the Nishimori conditions in epidemic inference on graphs

Alfredo Braunstein, Louise Budzynski, Matteo Mariani, and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064308 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Higher-order evolutionary dynamics with game transitions

Yi-Duo Chen, Zhi-Xi Wu, and Jian-Yue Guan

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064309 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Voter model can accurately predict individual opinions in online populations

Antoine Vendeville

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064310 (2025) - Published 17 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #ClearMotivation

Behavior of Ising spins and ecological oscillators on dynamically rewired small-world networks

Davi Arrais Nobre, Karen C. Abbott, Jonathan Machta, and Alan Hastings

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064311 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Effect of preferential node deletion on the structure of networks that evolve via preferential attachment

Barak Budnick, Ofer Biham, and Eytan Katzav

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064312 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Coarsening in the persistent voter model: Analytical results

R. G. de Almeida, Jeferson J. Arenzon, F. Corberi, W. G. Dantas, and L. Smaldone

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064313 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Emergence of network communities driven by local rules

Alexei Vazquez

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064314 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025

Network-driven vaccination strategies for preventing rebound dynamics in metapopulation epidemic control

Piergiorgio Castioni and Alex Arenas

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064315 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal features of epidemic and vaccine models

Sourav Chowdhury, Indrani Bose, Suparna Roychowdhury, and Indranath Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064316 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #ClearMotivation #TimelyTopic

Biological Physics

Destabilization of water molecules by terahertz electric fields affects sodium ion blockage in the Kv1.2 channel

Xiaofei Zhao, Wen Ding, Hongguang Wang, Yongdong Li, and Chunliang Liu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064401 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Metastability in networks of stochastic integrate-and-fire neurons

Siddharth Paliwal, Gabriel Koch Ocker, and Braden A. W. Brinkman

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064402 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Evolution of complexity and the transition to biochemical life

Praful Gagrani and David Baum

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064403 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport properties of the motor protein UNC-104 are robust and independent of changes in its cargo binding

Amir Shee, Vidur Sabharwal, Sandhya P. Koushika, Amitabha Nandi, and Debasish Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064404 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear continuum description of the E. coli cell wall under high turgor pressure

Octavio Albarrán, Renata Garcés, Giacomo Po, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Jeff D. Eldredge

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064405 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

#BiophysicsSpotlight #Interdisciplinary

Thermodynamics of a voltage-gated potassium channel

Jia-Zeng Wang, PengKun Hu, YueYing Zheng, and YuMei Li

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064406 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Effects of fiber spatial distribution and relative orientation on the percolation and mechanics of stochastic fiber networks: A model of peptide hydrogels

Amir Hossein Namdar, Nastaran Zoghi, Aline Miller, Alberto Saiani, and Tom Shearer

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064407 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation, reverse electrodialysis, and everything in between

Yoav Green

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064408 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #BiophysicsSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of boundary geometry on active patterns

Jigyasa Watwani, Sakshi Pahujani, V. Jemseena, Vishal Vasan, and K. Vijay Kumar

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064409 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

#Interdisciplinary #TheoryExperiment

Multiparameter optimal control of $F_{1}$ -ATPase

W. Callum Wareham and David A. Sivak

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064410 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Impact of terahertz waves in altering C2AB binding to lipid bilayers: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Hao-Tian Hao, Chen Chen, Yu-Qiang Ma, and Hong-Ming Ding

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064411 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Capacitive response of biological membranes

Jafar Farhadi, Joshua B. Fernandes, Karthik Shekhar, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064412 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClassicProblem

Dependencies of liquid-gel phase transition temperature and area per lipid on lipid type: Analytic theory

Boris Kheyfets and Sergei Mukhin

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064413 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Droneflies combine passive and active wing pitch modulation under unilateral wing damage

Jinjing Hao (郝金晶), Jianghao Wu (吴江浩), Jiedong Guo (郭介东), and Yanlai Zhang (张艳来)

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064414 (2025) - Published 18 June, 2025

Finite-size scaling of survival statistics in metapopulation models

Alice Doimo, Giorgio Nicoletti, Davide Bernardi, and Prajwal Padmanabha

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064415 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Closed-form eigenvalues of randomly segmented tridiagonal quasi-Toeplitz matrices: Random Rouse block copolymer

S. S. Ashwin

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064416 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Optimizing phage strategies in competitive boom-bust environments

Oskar Struer Lund and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064417 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Dynamic landscapes and statistical limits on growth during cell fate specification

Gautam Reddy

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064418 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Motivated by developmental processes in biology, this study extends a classical optimal transport framework to processes that include growth. One key result presented here is the derivation of an analog of the Benamou-Brenier theorem, which identifies the conditions under which the transport map is described by stochastic dynamics on a potential landscape. The author exploits a mathematical connection between stochastic control theory, optimal transport and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The framework can be used to find a potential landscape that describes the map from any (non-degenerate) initial distribution over cell states (of arbitrary dimensionality) to any target distribution in a finite time.

Modeling of neuronal hyperexcitability modulated by Aβ-mediated astrocyte dysfunction

YuPeng Li, XiaoLi Yang, Hao Yang, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. E 111, 064419 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Fluid Dynamics

Turbulent-nonturbulent interfaces in spatially developing compressible turbulent boundary layers

Feng Liu, Ze Yang, Pengfei Lv, Hantao Liu, Jian Fang, and Yi Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065101 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Dynamics of active paths during two-phase flow through the capillary fiber bundle model

Anjali Vajigi and Subhadeep Roy

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065102 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

In-phase and antiphase synchronization of undulatory swimmers in the inertial regime

Zichen Liu, Bowen Zhu, and Gaojin Li

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065103 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Exploratory study of liquid-metal response to rapid variation of applied magnetic field

Ivan Smolyanov and Oleg Zikanov

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065104 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

Electrical response of nanofluidic systems subjected to viscosity gradients

Ramadan Abu-Rjal, Zuzanna S. Siwy, and Yoav Green

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065105 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Molecular simulation of the initial stages of drop coalescence

Aaditya U. Joshi, Osman A. Basaran, and David S. Corti

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065106 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Capillary-pressure saturation relation derived from the pore morphology method

Fernando Alonso-Marroquin and Martin P. Andersson

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065107 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Enskog and Enskog-Vlasov equations with a modified correlation factor and their H theorem

Shigeru Takata and Aoto Takahashi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065108 (2025) - Published 30 June, 2025

Plasma Physics

Modeling of experimentally observed two-dimensional precursor solitons in a dusty plasma by the forced Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation

Ajaz Mir, Pintu Bandyopadhyay, Madhurima Choudhury, Krishan Kumar, and Abhijit Sen

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065201 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Optimization of passive superconductors for shaping stellarator magnetic fields

Alan A. Kaptanoglu, Matt Landreman, and Michael C. Zarnstorff

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065202 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Distributively induced quasispherical implosion for fusion

Shu-Chao Duan, Shao-Tong Zhou, Gang-Hua Wang, Ming-Xian Kan, Qiang Xu, Bo Xiao, Hai-Bin Ou, Long Xie, and Qiang Wang

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065203 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Generation and transport of fast electrons under a nonuniform magnetic field produced by a coil target

Zhi-Wei Wang, Tie-Huai Zhang, and Wei-Min Wang

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065204 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

Mechanistic insights into air discharge mode transition: Revealing the indispensible roles of $N_{2} (v)$ and $N_{2} O_{5}$

Santu Luo, Dingxin Liu, Wang Xi, Renwu Zhou, Mingyan Zhang, Rusen Zhou, Xiaohua Wang, Mingzhe Rong, and Kostya (Ken) Ostrikov

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065205 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Influence of plasma screening on high-density inverse bremsstrahlung absorption

D. Turnbull, R. K. Follett, M. Sherlock, D. J. Strozzi, J. Katz, D. Cao, N. R. Shaffer, K. Aytekin, D. H. Edgell, L. Stanton, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065206 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

Characterization of electrostatic discharge currents in electron-charged polymethyl methacrylate as a proxy for natural compact intracloud discharges

Kathryn M. Sturge, Noah Hoppis, Brian L. Beaudoin, Ariana M. Shearin, Ethan T. Basinger, Bryson C. Clifford, Jack R. FitzGibbon, Emily H. Frashure, James E. Krutzler, Abraham A. Levitan, Patrick O'Shea, Holly J. Wilson, and Timothy W. Koeth

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065207 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Highly compressed spin-singlet Be at a million Kelvin

M. W. C. Dharma-wardana and Dennis D. Klug

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065208 (2025) - Published 13 June, 2025

Recombination effects in laser-driven acceleration of heavy ions

S. Morris, D. O. Gericke, S. Fritzsche, J. Machado, J. P. Santos, and M. Afshari

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065209 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Amplification of Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses in plasma by copropagating Gaussian pulses

Guoqing Yang, Min Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Huanyu Song, Suming Weng, Ping Li, Tongpu Yu, and Zhengming Sheng

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065211 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Lagrangian approach to reconnection and topology change

Amir Jafari

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065212 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Landau damping oscillations in very weakly collisional plasma

Evgeny V. Polyachenko and Ilia G. Shukhman

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065213 (2025) - Published 20 June, 2025

Comprehensive modeling of microscale gas breakdown under extremely high electric field

Jiandong Chen and Yangyang Fu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065214 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Experimental quantification of strongly coupled clusters in two-dimensional complex plasmas to understand cluster to continuum transitions

Ravi Kumar, Saikat C. Thakur, Edward Thomas, Jr., and Ranganathan Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065215 (2025) - Published 24 June, 2025

Separation of bidispersed microspheres in dusty plasma ratchet experiments

Ting-yu Yao, Ji-xu Gao, Miao Tian, Shun-xin Zhang, Fu-cheng Liu, Bao-quan Ai, Yan Feng, and Ya-feng He

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065216 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Application of the moving boundary truncated grid method to semiconductor device simulations in the framework of the Boltzmann–Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook equation

Ming-Yu Li, Chun-Yaung Lu, and Chia-Chun Chou

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065301 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Augmented physics-informed Hamiltonian networks for dynamical systems under external interactions

Yuting Li, Yong Li, and Hongkun Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065302 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Noise balance and stationary distribution of stochastic gradient descent

Liu Ziyin, Hongchao Li, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065303 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Coarse-grained force fields via rotational entropy corrections to free-energy landscapes of diffusing molecules

J. M. Hall and M. G. Guenza

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065304 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Solution of the singular Dirac equation using mapped trigonometric functions

Haimei Shi and Zhigang Sun

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065305 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

Input-dependence in quantum reservoir computing

Rodrigo Martínez-Peña and Juan-Pablo Ortega

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065306 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Advanced deep architecture pruning using single-filter performance

Yarden Tzach, Yuval Meir, Ronit D. Gross, Ofek Tevet, Ella Koresh, and Ido Kanter

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065307 (2025) - Published 11 June, 2025

Mass correction approach to reduce the droplet spontaneous shrinkage in free-energy-based lattice Boltzmann method

Cheng Peng, Xuming Li, Chunhua Zhang, Xin Wen, and Hao Liu

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065308 (2025) - Published 12 June, 2025

Sequential spin-logic algorithmics for Ising machines

Laura Michel, Marco Rogier, and Frédéric Lechenault

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065309 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Lattice Boltzmann model for immiscible three-phase flows with phase change

Guang Yang, Hangyu Chen, and Moran Wang

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065310 (2025) - Published 16 June, 2025

Machine learning approach to fast thermal equilibration

Diego Rengifo and Gabriel Téllez

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065311 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Kernel shape renormalization explains output-output correlations in finite Bayesian one-hidden-layer networks

P. Baglioni, L. Giambagli, A. Vezzani, R. Burioni, P. Rotondo, and R. Pacelli

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065312 (2025) - Published 23 June, 2025

Lattice Boltzmann method featuring nonmaterial enthalpy for solid-liquid phase change in noncondensable gas

Zheng Dai (代铮), Zhongyi Wang (王忠义), Junhao Zhu (朱俊豪), Xiaohu Chen (陈小虎), and Qing Li (李庆)

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065313 (2025) - Published 26 June, 2025

Physics-based discovery of governing equations from scarce and noisy data

Liang Wang, Tingwei Ji, Yunzhe Huang, Hongjie Zhou, and Fangfang Xie

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065314 (2025) - Published 27 June, 2025

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Dynamical regimes of thermally convective emulsions

Francesca Pelusi, Andrea Scagliarini, Mauro Sbragaglia, Massimo Bernaschi, and Roberto Benzi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065401 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Motion of a microswimmer in a lattice of obstacles: Effect of thermal fluctuations

Margam Ramprasad, Shubhadeep Mandal, and Pallab Sinha Mahapatra

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065402 (2025) - Published 2 June, 2025

Microswimmer separation in complex confining geometries

Ian P. Madden and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065403 (2025) - Published 3 June, 2025

Modeling colloidal interactions using structural data: Insights from coated silica dispersions

Ph. Germain, A. Ayadim, and S. Amokrane

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065404 (2025) - Published 5 June, 2025

Fragmentation of granular droplets on impact

B. Darbois Texier and J.-F. Fuentealba

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065405 (2025) - Published 6 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relative knot probabilities in confined lattice polygons

E. J. Janse van Rensburg, E. Orlandini, and M. C. Tesi

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065406 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

#SoftMatterSpotlight #ClassicProblem #AdvancingField

Analytical modeling and decoupling of humidity effects in nanomechanical sensing based on sorption kinetics and viscoelastic stress relaxation

Meng-Qun Feng, Kosuke Minami, Yingcheng Zhou, and Genki Yoshikawa

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065407 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exploring water's no-man's land

Peter Lunkenheimer, Daniel Reuter, Arthur Schulz, Martin Wolf, and Alois Loidl

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065408 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

#AdvancingField #WellStructured #OpenDebate

Role of compressional dynamics in setting the scale-dependent rheology of granular flows: An explanation for the emergence of thin layer stability

Christopher Harper, Josef Dufek, and Eric C. P. Breard

Phys. Rev. E 111, 065409 (2025) - Published 10 June, 2025

COMMENTS

Comment on “Noise amplification precedes extreme epileptic events on human EEG”

Juan L. P. Soto and Alexandre S. Emygdio

Phys. Rev. E 111, 066301 (2025) - Published 4 June, 2025

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical large deviations of linear diffusions [Phys. Rev. E 107, 054111 (2023)]

Johan du Buisson and Hugo Touchette

Phys. Rev. E 111, 069901 (2025) - Published 9 June, 2025