Volume 113, Issue 1

January 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Compressed ultrafast photography of plasmas formed from laser breakdown of dense gases reveals that internal processes dominate evolution at early times

Peng Wang, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Seth Pree, Lihong V. Wang, Dag Hanstorp, John P. Koulakis, Daniels Krimans, and Seth Putterman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015209 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Using a camera with 2-picosecond time resolution, researchers show that the atoms in a laser-induced plasma are more highly ionized than theory predicts.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of the density of states in Bose-Einstein condensation

Alexios P. Polychronakos and Stéphane Ouvry

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014122 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

The onset of Bose-Einstein condensation in systems with various densities of states is examined. The authors consider, in particular, the behavior of the energy spectrum at low and high energies and resolve a puzzle resulting from different methods of analysis.

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

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Scaling behaviors in active model $B +$ via the functional renormalization group

Gergely Fejős, Zsolt Szép, and Naoki Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014130 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

This work applies the functional renormalization group to active model B+, uncovering global flows inaccessible by earlier methods. By pushing the theoretical description of nonequilibrium phase separation into a new regime, the results advance the state of the art in active-matter field theory.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

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Roughness-induced diffusion enhancement in asymmetric potentials under nonequilibrium fluctuations

Li-Ming Fan, Ming-Gen Li, Tian-Fu Gao, and Jing-Dong Bao

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014135 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Roughness in a potential landscape is usually seen as a kinetic impediment that suppresses the diffusion of thermally driven particles. The authors demonstrate that for systems driven by nonequilibrium fluctuations, roughness on an asymmetric potential can instead act as an effective means to accelerate diffusion.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Triadic percolation on multilayer networks

Hanlin Sun, Filippo Radicchi, and Ginestra Bianconi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014313 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Triadic interactions between network nodes take place when interactions between two or more nodes are controlled by regulator nodes. Triadic regulators turn network percolation into a dynamical process very different from standard percolation, which has been extensively studied in single networks. Here, the authors go one step further and propose a framework to study triadic percolation in multilayer networks, called multilayer triadic percolation, and analyze how multilayer network structure affects the dynamical behavior of triadic percolation.

#AdvancingField #UniversalBehavior #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks

Filippo Radicchi, Filipi N. Silva, Alessandro Flammini, Santo Fortunato, and Sadamori Kojaku

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014318 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Community detection is one of the most debated issues in network theory. Here, the authors study the detectability limits in the case of undirected weighted networks. The results indicate that large variability in edge weights can make communities less detectable.

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric response of multiarm protein crystals

D. Ray, F. Platten, and K. Kang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014403 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Applied electric fields precisely steer protein crystallization pathways, inducing distinct multiarm morphologies such as flowerlike and triconic structures. This field-driven control over angular ordering and phase behavior offers new insights into engineering complex protein architectures.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometry of disordered porous environments regulates cell migration

Laeschkir Würthner and Frederik Graw

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014407 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Several external factors are known to influence active cell movement, but little is known about the impact of the porous structure of the extracellular matrix. This work combines computational modeling and theory to show how such porous environments determine cell migration dynamics, and how spatial heterogeneities effectively guide cell movement towards regions of low porosity.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inference in spreading processes with neural-network priors

Davide Ghio, Fabrizio Boncoraglio, and Lenka Zdeborová

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015301 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

In the inference problem for epidemic spreading processes on graphs in the case of correlated initial states (i.e., epidemic sources), the initial states can be given as the output of a neural network. This paper presents a framework to study this case.

#AdvancingField #MachineLearningSpotlight

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Pressure dynamics in the bottleneck flow of self-propelled particles

N. Colantuono, M. Ramdan Ferressini, I. Zuriguel, D. R. Parisi, and G. A. Patterson

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015406 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Intermittency and clogging statistics have been extensively investigated in a variety of systems – from granular materials to pedestrian evacuations. Here, the authors experimentally study the evolution of mechanical pressure in a two-dimensional system of self-propelled agents flowing through a bottleneck, revealing a strong correlation between pressure dynamics and the system state (clogged vs unclogged).

#ClearMotivation #SoftMatterSpotlight

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Emergence of periodic chimneys during fluidization at a coarse-fine grains interface

Camille Porceillon, Aurélien Gay, Alfredo Taboada, and Valérie Vidal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015414 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Fluid ascent through multilayered sediments takes place in many geophysical and industrial processes. In this paper, the authors perform experiments in a two-layer granular column consisting of coarse grains at the bottom and fine grains at the top, in which water is injected from below at a constant flow rate. They report the formation of a regular fluidization pattern at the two-layer interface in the form of dust chimneys, and propose a mechanism based on pressure-drop estimates to predict the wavelength of the fluidization pattern.

#AdvancingField #WellStructured #ClearMotivation

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Universality, robustness, and limits of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in open quantum systems

Gabriel Almeida, Pedro Ribeiro, Masudul Haque, and Lucas Sá

Phys. Rev. E 113, L012101 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

LETTER

Cheaper access to universal fluctuations in integrable spin chains from boundary effects

Sylvain Prolhac

Phys. Rev. E 113, L012102 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

LETTER

Exact bound of power-efficiency trade-off in finite-time thermodynamic cycles

R. X. Zhai (翟若迅), Xin Yue (岳鑫), and C. P. Sun (孙昌璞)

Phys. Rev. E 113, L012103 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Trotter transition in Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer pairing dynamics

Aniket Patra, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Boris L. Altshuler, and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. E 113, L012201 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Opinion polarization and its connected disagreement: Modeling and modulation

Xuzhe Qian (钱徐喆), Bo-Wei Qin (秦伯韡), Huaiping Zhu, and Wei Lin (林伟)

Phys. Rev. E 113, L012301 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Plasma Physics

LETTER

Nanometer-scale proton focusing via density-gradient-induced intrinsic focusing electric fields

Q. Yu and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 113, L013201 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Dynamics of self-thermophoretic Janus particle in optical trap

Khate Cheryl C. Bayer, Romie Seth M. Florida, Mike A. Bonachita, Michael Jade Y. Jerez, and Mark Nolan P. Confesor

Phys. Rev. E 113, L013401 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Emergent viscous hydrodynamics from a single quantum particle

Zhi-Li Zhou, Mauricio Hippert, Nicki Mullins, and Jorge Noronha

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014101 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Overdamped diffusion through a channel of varying cross-section

Michał Cieśla, Bartłomiej Dybiec, Monika Krasowska, and Anna Strzelewicz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014102 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Time-energy trade-off in stochastic resetting using optimal control

Rémi Goerlich, Kristian Stølevik Olsen, Hartmut Löwen, and Yael Roichman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014103 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Stochastic resetting is a driving mechanism that is known to minimize the first passage time to reach a target at the cost of energy expenditure. The choice of the physical implementation of each resetting event determines the trade-off between the acceleration of the search process and its energetic cost. The authors find an optimal transport protocol that balances these two quantities.

Vibrational model of entropy in dense two-dimensional fluids

S. A. Khrapak

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014104 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Pattern formation in a coupled driven diffusive system

Guilherme E. Freire Oliveira, Ronald Dickman, Maxim O. Lavrentovich, and R. K. P. Zia

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014105 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Pulsating ratchets: From potential symmetry to symmetry of average velocity

V. M. Rozenbaum

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014106 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Out-of-equilibrium spinodal-like scaling behaviors across the magnetic first-order transitions of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Ising systems

Andrea Pelissetto and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014107 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Change in the order of a phase transition in the two-dimensional Potts model with equivalent neighbors

Petro Sarkanych

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014108 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Minimally dissipative multibit logical operations

Jérémie Klinger and Grant M. Rotskoff

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014109 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Modern computing architectures are much more energy dissipative than fundamental thermodynamic limits suggest. The authors implement minimally dissipative logical operations as solutions to optimal transport minimization problems, and develop practical algorithms that achieve near-optimal dissipation and can, in principle, be implemented in realistic experimental setups.

Non-Markovian phonon-driven transport of locally excited quasiparticles

N. S. Maslova, V. N. Mantsevich, I. M. Sokolov, and P. I. Arseyev

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014110 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Average weighted ratio of consecutive level spacings for infinite-dimensional orthogonal random matrices

Wouter Buijsman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014111 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Mutual information expression for the nonlinear Schrödinger channel in the low-noise limit using scattering data

Pavlos Kazakopoulos and Aris L. Moustakas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014112 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Integrability and exact large deviations of the weakly asymmetric exclusion process

Alexandre Krajenbrink and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014114 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Steady-state heat engines driven by finite reservoirs

Iago N. Mamede, Saulo V. Moreira, Mark T. Mitchison, and Carlos E. Fiore

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014115 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Squeezing light to get nonclassical work in quantum engines

A. Tejero, D. Manzano, and P. I. Hurtado

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014117 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Enhancing the efficiency of quantum measurement-based engines with entangling measurements

Franco Mayo and Augusto J. Roncaglia

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014118 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Pedestrian's approach to large deviations in semi-Markov processes with an application to entropy production

Alexander M. Maier, Jonas H. Fritz, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014119 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Dynamically emergent correlations in Brownian particles subject to simultaneous non-Poissonian resetting protocols

Gabriele de Mauro, Marco Biroli, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014120 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

In a one-dimensional gas of Brownian particles subject to simultaneous stochastic resetting, the resetting generates correlations between particles dynamically. These eventually drive the system into a strongly correlated nonequilibrium stationary state, which can be controlled by tuning the inter-reset distribution.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of the density of states in Bose-Einstein condensation

Alexios P. Polychronakos and Stéphane Ouvry

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014122 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

Charging capacitors using diodes at different temperatures. I. Theory

L. L. Bonilla, A. Torrente, J. M. Mangum, and P. M. Thibado

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014123 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Charging capacitors using diodes at different temperatures. II. Numerical studies

J. M. Mangum, L. L. Bonilla, A. Torrente, and P. M. Thibado

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014124 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Intermittent Kac's flights with resetting

Manuel O. Cáceres and Marco Nizama

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014125 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

High-efficiency three-stroke quantum isochoric heat engine: From infinite potential wells to magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

Hadi Mohammed Soufy and Colin Benjamin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014126 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Structure and dynamics in the low-density phase of a two-dimensional cellular automaton model of traffic flow

Gilad Hertzberg Rabinovich, Ofer Biham, and Eytan Katzav

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014127 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Competing effect of disorder on phase separation in active systems

Pratikshya Jena, Shambhavi Dikshit, and Shradha Mishra

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014128 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Cluster percolation and dynamical scaling in the Baxter-Wu model

Alexandros Vasilopoulos, Michail Akritidis, Nikolaos G. Fytas, and Martin Weigel

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014129 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scaling behaviors in active model $B +$ via the functional renormalization group

Gergely Fejős, Zsolt Szép, and Naoki Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014130 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Pairwise correlations of global times in one-dimensional Brownian motion under stochastic resetting

Yihao Wang and Hanshuang Chen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014131 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Gear rotation caused by self-propelling eccentric particles

Jincheng Gao, Lin Liu, Bin Tang, Zequn Shi, Huishu Li, Tianhui Zhang, Kang Chen, and Wen-de Tian

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014132 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Microcanonical ensemble out of equilibrium

R. Belousov, J. Elliott, F. Berger, L. Rondoni, and A. Erzberger

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014133 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Revealing the fuel of a quantum continuous measurement-based refrigerator

Cyril Elouard, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Andrew N. Jordan, and Géraldine Haack

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014134 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Roughness-induced diffusion enhancement in asymmetric potentials under nonequilibrium fluctuations

Li-Ming Fan, Ming-Gen Li, Tian-Fu Gao, and Jing-Dong Bao

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014135 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang fluctuations for moderate deviations of random walks in random environments

Jacob Hass, Hindy Drillick, Ivan Corwin, and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014136 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Continuum models describing probabilistic motion of tagged agents in exclusion processes

Michael J. Plank and Matthew J. Simpson

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014137 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Quenched properties of the spectral form factor

Dimitrios Charamis, Manas Kulkarni, Jorge Kurchan, and Laura Foini

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014138 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Langevin equations with non-Gaussian thermal noise: Valid but superfluous

Alex V. Plyukhin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014139 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Thermodynamic control of nonequilibrium systems

Dana Kamp and Karel Proesmans

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014140 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

The authors combine a linear-response framework with Lagrangian techniques to minimize the dissipation associated with driving a system between different nonequilibrium steady states. The results show several remarkable properties for the optimal protocol, such as diverging parameters and finite entropy production in the limit of slow driving.

Height distribution of elastic interfaces in quenched random media

Tuuli Sillanpää, Sanni Nousiainen, and Lasse Laurson

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014141 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Anisotropic active Brownian particle in two dimensions under stochastic resetting

Anirban Ghosh, Sudipta Mandal, and Subhasish Chaki

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014142 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Disordered harmonic chains with random masses and springs: A combinatorial approach

Maximilien Bernard and Christophe Texier

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014143 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Dynamics of phase oscillators under symmetry breaking and time delay couplings

I. Gowthaman, M. Manoranjani, D. V. Senthilkumar, and V. K. Chandrasekar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014201 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Remarkable similarities in distributions of dynamical observables in chaotic systems

Lucianno Defaveri and Naftali R. Smith

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014202 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Spatially coherent oscillations in neural fields with inhibition and adaptation. I. One-dimensional domains

Stefanos E. Folias

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014203 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Spatially coherent oscillations in neural fields with inhibition and adaptation. II. Two-dimensional domains

Stefanos E. Folias

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014204 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Emergent thermalization thresholds in unitary dynamics of inhomogeneously disordered quantum systems

Soumya Kanti Pal, C. L. Sriram, and Shamik Gupta

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014205 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Multifrequency phase locking and hyperplane structures in particle orientation

Isshin Arai and Tomoaki Itano

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014206 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Dynamics of interacting cavity solitons

Amir Leshem, Sanzida Akter, Logan Courtright, Pradyoth Shandilya, Curtis R. Menyuk, and Omri Gat

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014207 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Reduced-order modeling of dynamical systems coupled with the mean field of oscillators: Application to thermoacoustic systems

Rohan K. Nakade, Samarjeet Singh, Jayesh M. Dhadphale, and R. I. Sujith

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014208 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Interplay of atomic-scale nonlinearity and nonhomogeneity in phonon transmittance and interface thermal conductance: Nonlinear and nonreciprocal phonon tunneling

I. P. Koroleva (Kikot) and Yu. A. Kosevich

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014209 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Phase-locking and finite collisions in discrete-time Kuramoto oscillators

Chen Wu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014210 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Quantum diffusion in the Harper model under polychromatic time-perturbation

Hiroaki S. Yamada and Kensuke S. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014211 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics and spatiotemporal patterns of a delayed reaction-diffusion system on a square domain

Daifeng Duan, Yaqi Chen, Dongming Jia, and Ben Niu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014212 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Recurrence patterns correlation

Gabriel Marghoti, Matheus Palmero Silva, Thiago de Lima Prado, Sergio Roberto Lopes, Jürgen Kurths, and Norbert Marwan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014213 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Higher-order interactions enhance stochastic resonance in coupled oscillators

Hongye Wang, Xueqi Li, and Youming Lei

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014214 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

From chimera states to spike avalanches and quasicriticality: The role of superdiffusive coupling

I. Fateev and A. Polezhaev

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014215 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Nonlocal dark solitons and interactions under fourth-order diffraction

Miaomiao Li, Lijuan Ge, and Ming Shen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014216 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Two-local modifications of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model with quantum chaos

Masanori Hanada, Sam van Leuven, Onur Oktay, and Masaki Tezuka

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014217 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Exact diagonalization study of energy-level statistics in harmonically confined interacting bosons

Mohd Talib and M. A. H. Ahsan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014218 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Gap solitons of the Wannier and Bloch types in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with a moiré lattice

Jun-Tao He, Xue-Ping Cheng, Xin-Wei Jin, Hui-Jun Li, Ji Lin, and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014219 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Three-body interactions unveil devil's staircase, multistability, and synchronization revival in phase oscillators

Hancheng Li, Xuan Wang, Jinfeng Liang, Haihong Li, Qionglin Dai, and Junzhong Yang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014220 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Hyperedge overlap modulates synchronization transitions in higher-order Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model

Xueqin Wang, Xuening Li, Zhiqiu Ye, Weifang Huang, Ya Jia, and Xuan Zhan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014221 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Data-driven prediction of large-scale spatiotemporal chaos with distributed low-dimensional models

C. Ricardo Constante-Amores, Alec J. Linot, and Michael D. Graham

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014222 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Thermodynamic framework for modeling social adoption in multi-agent systems

Guilherme S. Y. Giardini and Carlo R. daCunha

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014301 (2026) - Published 5 January, 2026

Rare events of host switching for diseases using a susceptible-infected-recovered model with mutations

Yannick Feld and Alexander K. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014302 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Origins of instability in dynamical systems on undirected networks

Shraosi Dawn, Subrata Ghosh, Chandrakala Meena, Tim Rogers, and Chittaranjan Hens

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014303 (2026) - Published 6 January, 2026

Multiscale emergence of directional traveling waves in random neuronal networks with nonreciprocal excitation-inhibition synaptic coupling

Weiqiang Ma, Tonghui Yuan, Fei Meng, and Jun Wang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014304 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Ontological differentiation as a measure of semantic accuracy

P. García-Cuadrillero, F. Revuelta, and J. A. Capitán

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014305 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Impact of behavioral heterogeneity on epidemic outcome and its mapping into effective network topologies

Fabio Mazza, Gabriele Ricci, Francesca Colaiori, Stefano Guarino, Sandro Meloni, and Fabio Saracco

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014306 (2026) - Published 8 January, 2026

Prevention of the tragedy of the commons mediated by a noisy information channel

Samrat Sohel Mondal and Sagar Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014307 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Bayesian tit-for-tat fosters cooperation in evolutionary stochastic games

Arunava Patra, Supratim Sengupta, and Sagar Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014308 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Spectral densities approximations of incidence-based locally treelike hypergraph matrices via the cavity method

Grover E. C. Guzman, Peter F. Stadler, and Andre Fujita

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014309 (2026) - Published 12 January, 2026

Lagrangian formulation to optimize interactions in virtual environments

Andrea Afify, Alessandro Vicini, and Andrea Bellacicca

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014310 (2026) - Published 16 January, 2026

Flux-fluctuation relation for quantum walks on networks

Nisarg Vyas and M. S. Santhanam

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014311 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Cost functions in economic complexity

Alessandro Bellina, Paolo Buttà, and Vito D. P. Servedio

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014312 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Triadic percolation on multilayer networks

Hanlin Sun, Filippo Radicchi, and Ginestra Bianconi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014313 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

#AdvancingField #UniversalBehavior #ClearMotivation

Shortest-path percolation on scale-free networks

Minsuk Kim, Lorenzo Cirigliano, Claudio Castellano, Hanlin Sun, Robert Jankowski, Anna Poggialini, and Filippo Radicchi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014314 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Replicating hypergraph disease dynamics with lower-order interactions

Eugene Tan, Michael Small, and Shannon D. Algar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014315 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

Power-laws in phylogenetic trees and the preferential coalescent

Stephan Kleinbölting, Nigel Goldenfeld, and Johannes Berg

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014316 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Designing topological cluster synchronization patterns with the Dirac operator

Ahmed A. A. Zaid and Ginestra Bianconi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014317 (2026) - Published 28 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detectability threshold in weighted modular networks

Filippo Radicchi, Filipi N. Silva, Alessandro Flammini, Santo Fortunato, and Sadamori Kojaku

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014318 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

Biological Physics

Exponential random graph-based eXplainable Artificial Intelligence for Alzheimer disease

Nicola Amoroso, Ester Pantaleo, Marianna La Rocca, Loredana Bellantuono, Saverio Pascazio, Sabina Tangaro, Alfonso Monaco, and Roberto Bellotti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014401 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Phase separation and coexistence in spatial coordination games between microbes

Guanlin Li, Gabi Steinbach, Peter Yunker, Yao Yao, and Joshua S. Weitz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014402 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric response of multiarm protein crystals

D. Ray, F. Platten, and K. Kang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014403 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

Kinetic effect of clustering: Application to systems with switching between states and influence of a drift

Boris P. Belotserkovskii

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014404 (2026) - Published 26 January, 2026

Foci, waves, excitability: Self-organization of phase waves in a model of asymmetrically coupled embryonic oscillators

Kaushik Roy and Paul François

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014405 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Neuronal decoding of temperature signals in Caenorhabditis elegans

Abhilasha Batra and Rati Sharma

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014406 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometry of disordered porous environments regulates cell migration

Laeschkir Würthner and Frederik Graw

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014407 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

Magnetic properties of an individual Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense cell

Mathias M. Claus, Marcus Wyss, Dirk Schüler, Martino Poggio, and Boris Gross

Phys. Rev. E 113, 014408 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Nonlinear phase synchronization and the role of spacing in shell models

L. Manfredini and Ö. D. Gürcan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015101 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Wrinkling dynamics accelerate due to sudden changes in boundary conditions

Kai Liu, Wang Xiao, John Lowengrub, Shuwang Li, and Meng Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015102 (2026) - Published 13 January, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics of air invasion in one-dimensional compliant fluid networks

Ludovic Jami, François-Xavier Gauci, Céline Cohen, Xavier Noblin, and Ludovic Keiser

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015103 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Gaussian wave packets in a semi-infinite capillary jet for droplet isolation: Spatial linear analysis and nonlinear simulations

Y. M. Zhang, H. González, F. J. García de Bollullos, P. A. Vazquez, and H. L. Yi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015104 (2026) - Published 27 January, 2026

Multiphase smoothed particle hydrodynamics modeling of two drops impacting on a solid surface

Linhao Li, Md M. A. Sohag, Kan Liu, Jian Wu, and Xiufeng Yang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015105 (2026) - Published 29 January, 2026

Oscillating electroosmotic flow in channels and capillaries with modulated wall charge distribution

A. Shrestha, E. Kirkinis, and M. Olvera de la Cruz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015106 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Plasma Physics

Collisional stopping power of ions in warm dense matter

Lucas J. Babati, Shane Rightley, Nathaniel R. Shaffer, and Scott D. Baalrud

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015201 (2026) - Published 2 January, 2026

Proton acceleration via high-power laser interactions with near-critical-density foam targets

O. Culfa, J. Kim, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, and F. N. Beg

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015202 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Nondiffusive transport of inertial heavy impurities in drift-wave turbulence

Zetao Lin, Benjamin Kadoch, Sadruddin Benkadda, and Kai Schneider

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015203 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

Alternative mechanism to accelerate ions from magnetized thin foil using standing whistler wave

Jubaraj Choudhury and Nilakshi Das

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015204 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Stability and wave dynamics in polytropic Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravitating solar plasmas

Souvik Das and Pralay Kumar Karmakar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015205 (2026) - Published 15 January, 2026

Dynamics of target plasma expansion during radiation ablation by a multiterawatt pulse of soft x-ray radiation at the Angara 5-1 facility

A. V. Branitsky, M. M. Basko, E. V. Grabovski, A. N. Gritsuk, K. N. Mitrofanov, V. V. Ryzhakov, and I. N. Frolov

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015206 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Factors controlling the statistics of magnetic reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

M. B. Khan, M. A. Shay, S. Oughton, W. H. Matthaeus, C. C. Haggerty, S. Adhikari, P. A. Cassak, S. Fordin, D. O'Donnell, Y. Yang, R. Bandyopadhyay, and S. Roy

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015207 (2026) - Published 22 January, 2026

Terahertz radiation generation by laser-resonant excitation of terahertz surface magnetoplasmons on a graphene– $n − InSb$ semiconductor interface

Rohit Kumar Srivastav and Mrityunjay Kundu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015208 (2026) - Published 23 January, 2026

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Compressed ultrafast photography of plasmas formed from laser breakdown of dense gases reveals that internal processes dominate evolution at early times

Peng Wang, Yogeshwar Nath Mishra, Seth Pree, Lihong V. Wang, Dag Hanstorp, John P. Koulakis, Daniels Krimans, and Seth Putterman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015209 (2026) - Published 30 January, 2026

Using a camera with 2-picosecond time resolution, researchers show that the atoms in a laser-induced plasma are more highly ionized than theory predicts.

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

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Inference in spreading processes with neural-network priors

Davide Ghio, Fabrizio Boncoraglio, and Lenka Zdeborová

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015301 (2026) - Published 7 January, 2026

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Hybrid quantum-classical convolutional neural network for astrophysical object classification

Ahmad Rauf, Javeria Amin, and Jameel-Un Nabi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015302 (2026) - Published 9 January, 2026

Deep neural nets as Hamiltonians

Mike Winer and Boris Hanin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015303 (2026) - Published 14 January, 2026

Performance evaluation of equations of state for typical cryogens two-phase simulation by pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method

Zhaoqi Zheng, Jiadong Sun, and Yonghua Huang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015304 (2026) - Published 20 January, 2026

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in a context-sensitive random language model

Yuma Toji, Jun Takahashi, Vwani Roychowdhury, and Hideyuki Miyahara

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015305 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

Analytical characterization of sloppiness in neural networks: Insights from linear models

Jialin Mao, Itay Griniasty, Yan Sun, Mark K. Transtrum, James P. Sethna, and Pratik Chaudhari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 015306 (2026) - Published 21 January, 2026

This study reports that low-dimensional structures in training manifolds of deep neural networks arise not due to limited flexibility, but rather from the intrinsic low-dimensionality of the training task.

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