Volume 112, Issue 3

September 2025

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: DCOMP's 2025 Rahman and Metropolis Awards

Koblar Alan Jackson and André Schleife

Phys. Rev. E 112, 030001 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonequilibrium dynamics of hard spheres in the fluid, crystalline, and glassy regimes

Matthew Kafker and Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034103 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

This paper addresses nonequilibrium dynamics of hard spheres in fluid, crystalline, and glassy regimes. Relaxation from two classes of perturbations are considered in detail. The authors introduce a hard-sphere causal graph that encapsulates metrics of equilibrium and nonequilibrium physics of hard-sphere systems, which can be useful in analyzing these systems.

#AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Percolation in the two-dimensional Ising model

Tao Chen, Jinhong Zhu, Wei Zhong, Sheng Fang, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034118 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

The authors consider percolation on a square-lattice Ising model by constructing clusters from pairs of parallel spins within an extended range beyond nearest neighbors. At the Ising criticality, they observe two percolation transitions as the probability $p$ of placing a bond increases: starting from a disordered phase, the system enters into a stable critical phase that persists over a wide range of $p$ , and then develops long-ranged percolation order.

#UniversalBehavior #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active matter under cyclic stretch: Modeling microtubule alignment and bundling

Takumi Tagaki, Seiya Nishikawa, and Shuji Ishihara

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034405 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

A model of self-propelled particles that incorporates elastic energy from cyclic substrate stretching successfully reproduces experimentally observed microtubule alignment at specific angles, as well as banded aggregation patterns. It also provides insight into how general active matter systems respond to cyclic mechanical stimuli.

#Interdisciplinary #BiophysicsSpotlight #BroadlyAccessible

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-dependent transport coefficients in two-dimensional cellular aggregates

Subhadip Chakraborti and Vasily Zaburdaev

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034406 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

A two-dimensional hydrodynamics framework for bacterial cell aggregation is used to derive bulk diffusivity and conductivity from microscopic parameters and cell density. This work quantifies a density-dependent transport slowdown during colony formation and provides analytical tools for quantifying hydrodynamic transport in experimental systems involving cellular aggregation.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #BroadlyAccessible

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near-critical gene expression in embryonic boundary precision

Michael Vennettilli, Krishna P. Ramachandran, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034410 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

The authors show that precise hunchback (Hb) gene boundaries in $D r o s o p h i l a$ $m e l a n o g a s t e r$ form when the system is weakly bistable and Hb protein diffusion is optimal. This balance sharpens boundaries while limiting noise, elucidating boundary design principles for embryonic development and pattern formation.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #WellStructured

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Feedback between microscopic activity and macroscopic dynamics drives excitability and oscillations in mechanochemical matter

Tim Dullweber, Roman Belousov, and Anna Erzberger

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034411 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

In this paper on shape-changing matter (with a companion paper in Physical Review Letters), an analytically tractable model reveals how feedback between surface signaling and geometry drives multistability, symmetry-breaking, excitability, and self-sustained oscillations – uncovering universal characteristics in soft active materials shaped by mechanochemical signals.

#Interdisciplinary #UniversalBehavior

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical generation of quasistationary plasma electromagnetic structures for particle collimation with petawatt picosecond lasers

Ph. Korneev, N. D. Bukharskii, I. V. Kochetkov, M. Ehret, Y. Abe, K. F. F. Law, S. Fujioka, G. Schaumann, and B. Zielbauer

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035211 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

Experimental and numerical investigations into the generation of strong magnetic fields in plasma, using a picosecond petawatt laser interacting with specially designed “snail” targets, open paths to the creation of all-optical ultrabright sources of directed high-energy charged particle beams.

#ElegantVisuals #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chiral active fluids: Insights from the total momentum

Tomer Markovich and Tom C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035409 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

This paper presents an argument for why the center-of-mass momentum and the total momentum are different quantities in chiral active matter. The total momentum accounts for the momentum of all atoms, including rotation around the canter of mass of complex particles. It is the total momentum that is accessible in simple rheological experiments.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonreciprocity and multibody interactions in acoustically levitated particle systems: A three-body problem

Brady Wu, Qinghao Mao, Bryan VanSaders, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035410 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

In this work, a system of particles acoustically levitated in air is investigated experimentally and numerically. In systems with as few as three identical particles, the authors report the emergence of nonreciprocal interactions, which are mediated by the fluid, and render the system active, opening the door to controlling collective behavior and self-assembly via multibody interactions.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inverse Bauschinger effect in active ultrastable glasses

Rashmi Priya and Smarajit Karmakar

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035414 (2025) - Published 18 September, 2025

Ultrastable glasses can exhibit a transient reversible memory effect when subjected to both a local driving force via run-and-tumble active particles and global shear. The authors simulate such a system and find that it exhibits an enhanced anisotropic response, with lower or higher yield strength in the direction opposite to the original loading, depending on the deformation history.

#LandmarkContribution #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical field theories for biaxial liquid crystals

Anouar El Moumane, René Wittmann, Hartmut Löwen, and Michael te Vrugt

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035416 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Phase field crystal models are widely used for modeling the uniaxial orientational ordering of liquid crystals, but only limited progress has been made in applying them to the more complex cases of biaxial phases and biaxial particles. The authors discuss the microscopic derivation of these models for biaxial liquid crystals, and as examples present two models that allow for an efficient simulation of spatially inhomogeneous biaxial orientational ordering dynamics.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Impact of cross and main diffusion coefficients on symmetry breaking in nonreactive diffusion systems

Berin Šeta, Jon Spangenberg, Mounir M. Bou-Ali, and Valentina Shevtsova

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033101 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Ternary systems driven by concentration-dependent diffusion coefficients were studied aboard the International Space Station. A range of new patterning possibilities and the coexistence of gravitational instabilities, previously thought impossible in nonreactive systems, were uncovered.

#ClearMotivation #ElegantVisuals

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Convective nature of the stimulated Raman side scattering in inertial confinement fusion

F.-X. Zhou, C.-W. Lian, R. Yan, Y. Ji, J. Li, Q. Jia, and J. Zheng

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033201 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Absolute growth of stimulated Raman side scattering (SRSS) in inertial confinement fusion appears to be absent in experiments. Based on simulations the authors find that absolute growth of SRSS occurs only in the limit of an infinite laser beam width. This finding may have implications for the design of experiments.

#AdvancingField #OpenDebate

PERSPECTIVES

PERSPECTIVE

Role of evaporation in stability of foam films and foams

François Boulogne and Emmanuelle Rio

Phys. Rev. E 112, 031001 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Evaporation can either stabilize or destabilize foam films through thermal and solutal Marangoni flows. This Perspective synthesizes findings from droplet evaporation studies, presents new measurements of temperature variations in evaporating foams and films, and proposes a psychrometric framework for predicting their thermal behavior. The authors identify key open questions and outline experimental and modeling strategies to unravel the complex coupling between evaporation, heat transfer, and foam stability.

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Symmetry breaking in chaotic many-body quantum systems at finite temperature

Angelo Russotto, Filiberto Ares, and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032101 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

LETTER

Integrable matrix probabilistic diffusions and the matrix stochastic heat equation

Alexandre Krajenbrink and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032102 (2025) - Published 17 September, 2025

LETTER

Active matter flocking via predictive alignment

Julian Giraldo-Barreto and Viktor Holubec

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032103 (2025) - Published 17 September, 2025

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Local integrability breaking and exponential localization of leading Lyapunov vectors

Jiaozi Wang, Tomaž Prosen, and Giulio Casati

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032201 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

LETTER

Bistable flow dynamics of airfoil stall under varying angle of attack: A stochastic model with multiplicative noise

Edouard Boujo, Ivan Kharsansky Atallah, and Luc R. Pastur

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032202 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

LETTER

Dependence of Krylov complexity saturation on the initial operator and state

Sreeram PG, J. Bharathi Kannan, Ranjan Modak, and S. Aravinda

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032203 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

LETTER

Stochastic dynamics for quantum billiards: Bridging integrability, chaos, and freezing transitions

Iván R. R. González, Antônio M. S. Macêdo, Giovani L. Vasconcelos, and Ernesto P. Raposo

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032204 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Multistability and high codimension bifurcations in synergistic epidemics on heterogeneous networks

Francisco J. Pérez-Reche and Sergei N. Taraskin

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032301 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

LETTER

Phase transitions in the prisoner's dilemma game on the Barabási-Albert graph with participation cost

Jacek Miękisz and Javad Mohamadichamgavi

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032302 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

LETTER

Spreading processes on heterogeneous active systems: Spreading threshold, immunization strategies, and vaccination noise

Benjamín Marcolongo, Gustavo J. Sibona, and Fernando Peruani

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032303 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

LETTER

Indirect reciprocity as a dynamics for weak balance

Minwoo Bae, Takashi Shimada, and Seung Ki Baek

Phys. Rev. E 112, L032304 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Fluid Dynamics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Impact of cross and main diffusion coefficients on symmetry breaking in nonreactive diffusion systems

Berin Šeta, Jon Spangenberg, Mounir M. Bou-Ali, and Valentina Shevtsova

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033101 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

#ClearMotivation #ElegantVisuals

Plasma Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Convective nature of the stimulated Raman side scattering in inertial confinement fusion

F.-X. Zhou, C.-W. Lian, R. Yan, Y. Ji, J. Li, Q. Jia, and J. Zheng

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033201 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

#AdvancingField #OpenDebate

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Structural criterion for the onset of rigidity in a colloidal gel

C. S. Dias, J. C. Neves, M. M. Telo da Gama, E. Del Gado, and N. A. M. Araújo

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033401 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

LETTER

Active stop and go motion: A strategy to improve spatial exploration and survival

Fernando Peruani and Debasish Chaudhuri

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033402 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

LETTER

Collectively handled spheres self-organize: How friction and dynamics limit the jamming phase diagram

K. P. Krishnaraj

Phys. Rev. E 112, L033403 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Relationship between localization-delocalization transition and $PT$ -symmetry breaking

Fatemeh Sadeghi, Mostafa Motamedifar, and Mojtaba Golshani

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034101 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Diffusion with stochastic resetting on a lattice

Alexander K. Hartmann and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034102 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonequilibrium dynamics of hard spheres in the fluid, crystalline, and glassy regimes

Matthew Kafker and Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034103 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

#AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

Machine learning domain adaptation in spin models with continuous phase transitions

Vladislav Chertenkov and Lev Shchur

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034104 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Scaling laws of chemical and Euclidean distances in critical percolation trees

E. A. Soares and A. A. Moreira

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034105 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Large deviations of density fluctuations in the boundary-driven quantum symmetric simple inclusion process

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

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034106 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Subsystem thermalization hypothesis in quantum spin chains with conserved charges

Feng-Li Lin, Jhh-Jing Hong, and Ching-Yu Huang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034107 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Exact results in stochastic processes with division, death, and diffusion: Spatial correlations, marginal entropy production, and macroscopic currents

Samuel Cameron and Elsen Tjhung

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034109 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Optimal performance of thermoelectric devices with small external irreversibility

Rajeshree Chakraborty and Ramandeep S. Johal

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034110 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Thermodynamic circuits: Association of thermoelectric converters in stationary nonequilibrium

Paul Raux, Christophe Goupil, and Gatien Verley

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034111 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Thermodynamic circuits: Modeling chemical reaction networks with nonequilibrium conductance matrices

Paul Raux, Christophe Goupil, and Gatien Verley

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034112 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Open-systems tools for nonthermalizing closed quantum systems

Unnati Akhouri, Sarah Shandera, and Jackson Henry

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034113 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Thermodynamic inference in molecular motors: A martingale approach

Adrián Nadal-Rosa and Gonzalo Manzano

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034114 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Optimizing low-dissipation Carnot-like thermal devices with heat leak

Zhuolin Ye and Viktor Holubec

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034115 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Universal criterion for selective outcomes under stochastic resetting

Suvam Pal, Leonardo Dagdug, Dibakar Ghosh, Denis Boyer, and Arnab Pal

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034116 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Role of inherent structure defects in two-dimensional melting

Wen-Hao Ma and Yan-Wei Li

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034117 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Percolation in the two-dimensional Ising model

Tao Chen, Jinhong Zhu, Wei Zhong, Sheng Fang, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034118 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

#UniversalBehavior #AdvancingField

Fractional Brownian motion with mean-density interaction: A myopic self-avoiding fractional stochastic process

Jonathan House, Rashad Bakhshizada, Skirmantas Janušonis, Ralf Metzler, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034119 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Universal principles for sudden-quench quantum Otto engines

R. S. Watson and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034120 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Stability of universal properties against perturbations of the Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm

Matteo Bacci and Claudio Bonati

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034121 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Electric conductivity in open quantum two-dimensional nonmagnetic systems: The role of the nondiagonal dissipative kernels and the non-Markovian effect

E. Kh. Alpomishev, G. G. Adamian, and N. V. Antonenko

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034122 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Characterizing spin ordering via maximal row correlation in classical spin models

Yong-Yi Tang, Yin Zhong, and Hantao Lu

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034123 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Quantum-computer-based verification of quantum thermodynamic uncertainty relation

Nobumasa Ishida and Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034124 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Lieb-Mattis ordering theorem of electronic energy levels in the thermodynamic limit

Manuel Calixto, Alberto Mayorgas, and Julio Guerrero

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034125 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

Numerically refined reaction conditions for stochastic simulation of nonelementary trimolecular reactions between closest particles

Taylor Kearney, Ricardo Ruiz-Baier, and Mark B. Flegg

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034126 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Non-Gaussian density fluctuations in the Dean-Kawasaki equation

Louison Le Bon, Antoine Carof, and Pierre Illien

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034127 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Quantum transport in random alloys with intermetallic needle-shape precipitates

Elham Sharafedini, Hossein Hamzehpour, and Mohammad Alidoust

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034128 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Spectral truncation of out-of-time-ordered correlators in dissipative systems

Pablo D. Bergamasco, Gabriel G. Carlo, and Alejandro M. F. Rivas

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034201 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Intensity landscapes in elliptic and oval billiards with a circular absorbing region

Katherine Holmes, Joseph Hall, and Eva-Maria Graefe

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034202 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Spiral defect chaos with intermittency increases mean termination time

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani and Wouter-Jan Rappel

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034203 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Improving synchronization with hypernetworks: Master stability function analysis and simulation validation

Pedro A. S. Braga and Luis A. Aguirre

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034204 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Preferential positioning and positional transitions of localized Turing patterns on curved surfaces

Sankaran Nampoothiri

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034205 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Screening and localization in the nonlinear Anderson problem

Alexander V. Milovanov and Alexander Iomin

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034206 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Metamorphosis of transition to periodic oscillations in a complex dynamical system: A turbulent reactive flow

Beeraiah Thonti, Sivakumar Sudarsanan, Ramesh S. Bhavi, Anaswara Bhaskaran, Manikandan Raghunathan, and R. I. Sujith

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034207 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Experimental study of the distributions of off-diagonal scattering-matrix elements of quantum graphs with symplectic symmetry

Jiongning Che, Nils Gluth, Simon Köhnes, Thomas Guhr, and Barbara Dietz

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034208 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Composing $α$ -Gauss and logistic maps: Gradual and sudden transitions to chaos

Marcelo A. Pires, Constantino Tsallis, and Evaldo M. F. Curado

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034209 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Existence diagrams and excitations of vector Akhmediev breathers with self-steepening

Xue-Yuan Wang and Chong Liu

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034210 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Bifurcation analysis of a birhythmic vibroimpact oscillator with two kinds of fractional derivative elements subjected to Gaussian white noise excitation

Boris A. Guimfack, Raoul Mbakob Yonkeu, Timoléon C. Kofané, and Conrad B. Tabi

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034211 (2025) - Published 17 September, 2025

Extreme events in a random set of nonlinear elastic bending waves

Murukesh Muralidhar, Sébastien Aumaître, and Antoine Naert

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034212 (2025) - Published 18 September, 2025

Information scrambling in bosonic Gaussian dynamics

Ali Mollabashi and Saleh Rahimi-Keshari

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034213 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Vibrational spectrum of dissipative soliton molecules

Jose M. Soto-Crespo

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034214 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Bayesian estimation of coupling strength and heterogeneity in a coupled oscillator model from macroscopic quantities

Yusuke Kato, Shuhei Kashiwamura, Emiri Watanabe, Masato Okada, and Hiroshi Kori

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034215 (2025) - Published 25 September, 2025

Dependence of isochronous bifurcations on the driving-mode phase shift in two-harmonic standard maps

Michele Mugnaine, Ricardo L. Viana, A. M. Ozorio de Almeida, Yves Elskens, and Iberê L. Caldas

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034216 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

Networks and Complex Systems

Synaptic shot noise triggers fast and slow global oscillations in balanced neural networks

Denis S. Goldobin, Maria V. Ageeva, Matteo di Volo, Ferdinand Tixidre, and Alessandro Torcini

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034301 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Solitary states in spiking oscillators with higher-order interactions

Vladimir V. Semenov, Subhasanket Dutta, Stefano Boccaletti, Charo I. del Genio, Sarika Jalan, and Anna Zakharova

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034302 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Spectral coarse graining and rescaling for preserving structural and dynamical properties in graphs

M. Schmidt, F. Caccioli, and T. Aste

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034303 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Discontinuous phase transitions of feature detection in lateral predictive coding

Zhen-Ye Huang, Weikang Wang, and Hai-Jun Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034304 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Stabilization of macroscopic dynamics by fine-grained disorder in many-species ecosystems

Juan Giral Martínez, Silvia De Monte, and Matthieu Barbier

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034305 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Coevolution of individual perception and cooperative behavior in the norm compliance dilemma

Sara Ghivarello and Alberto Antonioni

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034306 (2025) - Published 4 September, 2025

Dynamics of cooperation evolution in fluctuating populations with environmental feedback

Yewei Tao, Kaipeng Hu, and Lei Shi

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034307 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Extended yard sale model of wealth distribution on Erdős-Rényi random networks

Nicolás Vazquez Von Bibow and Juan I. Perotti

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034308 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Microscopic features of the effect of vehicle overacceleration on traffic flow

Boris S. Kerner and Sergey L. Klenov

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034309 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Continuous-time process for human contact dynamics

Robin Persoons, Matteo D'Alessandro, and Piet Van Mieghem

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034310 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

Uncovering the hidden core-periphery structure in hyperbolic networks

Imran Ansari, Pawanesh Pawanesh, and Niteesh Sahni

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034311 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Ordering-disordering dynamics of the $q$ -voter model under random external bias

Roni Muslim, Jihye Kim, Noriko Oikawa, Anugraha Rinto NQZ, and Zulkaida Akbar

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034312 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Multilayer decomposition and synchronization dynamics of nested hypergraphs

Yinchao Yang, Xirong Xu, Xilong Qu, Jian Zhuang, Somaya Ashour, and Qiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034313 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Comparison of the properties of two-dimensional and three-dimensional percolating networks of nanoparticles

Philip J. Bones, Zachary E. Heywood, Joshua B. Mallinson, Ryan K. Daniels, Matthew D. Arnold, and Simon A. Brown

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034314 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Cooperation, satisfaction, and decision uncertainty in social games on complex networks with aspiration-driven players

M. Aguilar-Janita, N. Khalil, I. Leyva, and I. Sendiña-Nadal

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034315 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Biological Physics

Three-dimensional modeling of hyphal fusion, branching, and nutrient transport in filamentous fungi

Bruce J. Palmer, Connah G. M. Johnson, Ann S. Almgren, Andrew T. Myers, and William R. Cannon

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Impact of the RNA binding domain localization of the protein shell on virus particle stability

Mohammadamin Safdari, Siyu Li, Sanaz Panahandeh, Paul van der Schoot, and Roya Zandi

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034402 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Acceleration of enzymatic reaction-diffusion kinetics by intermediate state

Akihiro Fukuda, Yohei Nakayama, and Shoichi Toyabe

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034403 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Modeling the optical properties of biological structures using symbolic regression

Julian Sierra-Velez, Alexandre Vial, Demetrio Macías, Marina Inchaussandague, and Diana Skigin

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034404 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active matter under cyclic stretch: Modeling microtubule alignment and bundling

Takumi Tagaki, Seiya Nishikawa, and Shuji Ishihara

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034405 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

#Interdisciplinary #BiophysicsSpotlight #BroadlyAccessible

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Density-dependent transport coefficients in two-dimensional cellular aggregates

Subhadip Chakraborti and Vasily Zaburdaev

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034406 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

#BiophysicsSpotlight #BroadlyAccessible

Soft cavity model for touch mechanoreceptors under static and sliding contact

P. Tapie, D. Barreiros Scatamburlo, A. Chateauminois, and E. Wandersman

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034407 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Optimal switching strategies in multidrug therapies for chronic diseases

Juan Magalang, Javier Aguilar, Jose Perico Esguerra, Édgar Roldán, and Daniel Sanchez-Taltavull

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034408 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Phase-field modeling of Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis

Yunsong Zhang, Herbert Levine, and Yanxiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034409 (2025) - Published 12 September, 2025

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near-critical gene expression in embryonic boundary precision

Michael Vennettilli, Krishna P. Ramachandran, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034410 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

#BiophysicsSpotlight #WellStructured

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Feedback between microscopic activity and macroscopic dynamics drives excitability and oscillations in mechanochemical matter

Tim Dullweber, Roman Belousov, and Anna Erzberger

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034411 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

#Interdisciplinary #UniversalBehavior

General approach to the statistics of microbial orientation: Lévy walks, noise, and deterministic drift

Taylor J. Whitney, Thomas H. Solomon, and Kevin A. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034412 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

Irreversible thermodynamics of curved lipid membranes. II. Permeability and osmosis

Ahmad M. Alkadri and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. E 112, 034413 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Fluid Dynamics

Acoustic radiation force on a spherical particle near a planar boundary in a weakly thermosviscous fluid

Yu-Chen Zang (臧雨宸), Hai-Feng Jiang (蒋海峰), Di-Chao Chen (陈帝超), Xing-Feng Zhu (朱兴凤), and Da-Jian Wu (吴大建)

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035101 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Improved phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann model for liquid-gas flow with evaporation

Xiaoyu Wu and Xian Wang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035102 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Effect of varying degrees of freedom on self-propelled undulatory swimmers

Zhiqian Xin, Jiadong Wang, Xingyuan Mao, Bowen Jin, and Jian Deng

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035103 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

Relaxation of drag reduction in supersonic fully developed turbulence with interval blowing

Shibo Lee, Chenglin Zhou, Yang Zhang, Yunlong Zhao, Jiaqi Luo, and Yao Zheng

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035104 (2025) - Published 23 September, 2025

Plasma Physics

Subharmonic Shapiro steps in depinning dynamics of a two-dimensional solid dusty plasma modulated by one-dimensional nonlinear deformed periodic substrates

Zhaoye Wang, Nichen Yu, Ao Xu, Chen Liang, C. Reichhardt, C. J. O. Reichhardt, and Yan Feng

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035201 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Minimizing phase-space energies

Michael Updike, Nicholas Bohlsen, Hong Qin, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035202 (2025) - Published 5 September, 2025

Application of a spherically averaged pair potential in ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations of a warm dense electron gas

Tobias Dornheim, Thomas M. Chuna, Hannah M. Bellenbaum, Zhandos A. Moldabekov, Panagiotis Tolias, and Jan Vorberger

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035203 (2025) - Published 8 September, 2025

Efficient laser-plasma acceleration of protons via near-critical mass limited targets

Johannes Gebhard, Peter Hilz, Felix Balling, Joey Kalis, Martin Speicher, Leonard Doyle, Alexander Sävert, Georg Schäfer, Pooyan Khademi, Bin Liu, Matt Zepf, and Jörg Schreiber

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035204 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Two-stage linear filamentation growth of laser-produced proton beams in dense plasmas

Wang-Wen Xu, Zhang-Hu Hu, Hao-Yuan Li, Jie-Jie Lan, and You-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035205 (2025) - Published 9 September, 2025

Modulated electrostatic ion cyclotron wave, spatiotemporal patterns, extreme events, and associated nonlinear electric field structures induced by a moving charged object

Arindam Mistri, Debkumar Chakraborty, and Samiran Ghosh

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035206 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Generation of a 100-PW near-circularly-polarized attosecond x-ray pulse in the QED regime

Meiqi Sun, Ze Chen, Lipan Qin, Zhongyi Chen, Yan Tian, Jin Yan, Yan Wang, Xunjie Ma, Xueqing Yan, and Yunliang Wang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035207 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Universal relations between parallel and perpendicular spectral power-law exponents in nonaxisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Ramesh Sasmal and Supratik Banerjee

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035208 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Electron cumulative distribution function in a magnetron sputtering discharge

Mostafa Salahshoor

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035209 (2025) - Published 19 September, 2025

Nonlinear screening of ions in plasmas: A general phase-shift sum rule

N. R. Arista

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035210 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

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Optical generation of quasistationary plasma electromagnetic structures for particle collimation with petawatt picosecond lasers

Ph. Korneev, N. D. Bukharskii, I. V. Kochetkov, M. Ehret, Y. Abe, K. F. F. Law, S. Fujioka, G. Schaumann, and B. Zielbauer

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035211 (2025) - Published 26 September, 2025

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Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Direct comparison of stochastic driven nonlinear dynamical systems for combinatorial optimization

Junpeng Hou, Amin Barzegar, and Helmut G. Katzgraber

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035301 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Adaptive lattice-gas algorithm: Classical and quantum implementations

Niccolò Fonio, Pierre Sagaut, Ljubomir Budinski, and Valtteri Lahtinen

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035302 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Phase-field-based lattice Boltzmann method for the transport of insoluble surfactant in two-phase flows

Chengjie Zhan (湛承杰), Hong Liang (梁宏), Zhenhua Chai (柴振华), and Baochang Shi (施保昌)

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035303 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Equilibrium propagation for learning in Lagrangian dynamical systems

Serge Massar

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035304 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Asymptotic-preserving discrete unified gas-kinetic scheme for nonlinear gray radiative transfer equations

Xinliang Song, Wenjun Sun, Zhaoli Guo, and Zhiming Gao

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035305 (2025) - Published 3 September, 2025

Time consistency of lattice Boltzmann equation with an external force

Yonggang Zhang, Qin Xu, and Binghai Wen

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035306 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Discrete unified gas kinetic scheme for incompressible flow

Wenqiang Guo

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035307 (2025) - Published 10 September, 2025

Higher-order tuning of interface physics in multiphase lattice Boltzmann models

Matteo Lulli and Emily S. C. Ching

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035308 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Life at the boundary of chemical kinetics and program execution

Thomas Fischbacher

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035309 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Enhancing the efficiency of variational autoregressive networks through renormalization group

Sihan Wang and Zhirong Liu

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035310 (2025) - Published 11 September, 2025

Bridge function as a functional of the radial distribution function: Operator learning and application

Martin Panholzer, Michael Haring, Thomas Wallek, and Robert E. Zillich

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035311 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

Distribution of singular values in large sample cross-covariance matrices

Arabind Swain, Sean Alexander Ridout, and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035312 (2025) - Published 15 September, 2025

To understand the properties of the cross covariance between large-dimensional datasets, the authors extend the Marchenko–Pastur results for spectra of eigenvalues of self-covariance matrices to singular values of cross-covariance matrices. In particular, they analyze the spectrum of cross correlations when the dimensionality of the two variables is larger than the sample size, which is common in modern data science applications.

Accuracy and capacity of modern Hopfield networks with synaptic noise

Sharba Bhattacharjee and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035313 (2025) - Published 16 September, 2025

Problem hardness of diluted Ising models: Population annealing versus simulated annealing

Fernando Martínez-García and Diego Porras

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035314 (2025) - Published 17 September, 2025

Deep learning of phase transitions with minimal examples

Ahmed Abuali, David A. Clarke, Morten Hjorth-Jensen, Ioannis Konstantinidis, Claudia Ratti, and Jianyi Yang

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035315 (2025) - Published 18 September, 2025

Temperature-conditioned deep generative framework for scalable Ising spin configuration synthesis with physics-informed constraints

Abhishek Kumar, Partha Sarathi Bishnu, and Debabrata Deb

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035316 (2025) - Published 22 September, 2025

A law of next-token prediction in large language models

Hangfeng He and Weijie J. Su

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035317 (2025) - Published 24 September, 2025

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Loading-dependent microscale measures control bulk properties in granular material: An experimental test of the stress-force-fabric relation

Carmen L. Lee, Ephraim Bililign, Emilien Azéma, and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035401 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Swap Monte Carlo algorithm for diatomic molecules

Till Böhmer, Jeppe C. Dyre, and Lorenzo Costigliola

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035402 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Critical behavior of magnetic polymers on the three-dimensional Sierpiński gasket in the presence of an external magnetic field

Sumitra Rudra, Damien Paul Foster, and Sanjay Kumar

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035403 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025

Multiscale turbulence hierarchy in active matter: Polarization analysis of a zebrafish shoal

Antonio. R. de C. Romaguera, João V. A. Vasconcelos, Viviane M. de Oliveira, Adauto J. F. de Souza, Anderson L. R. Barbosa, Iván R. R. González, Pabyton G. Cadena, Luis G. Negreiros-Neto, and Marcelo L. Lyra

Phys. Rev. E 112, 035404 (2025) - Published 2 September, 2025