Volume 113, Issue 2

February 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Molecular dynamics simulation on current-voltage characteristics of room temperature ionic liquids under strong electric field

Yufeng Cheng, Alberto T. Pérez, Weizong Wang, and Antonio Ramos

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025415 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Researchers have used molecular dynamics simulations to study changes in the charge-transport properties of a room-temperature ionic liquid under a strong electric field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of the Casimir effect on the binding potential for three-dimensional wetting

Alessio Squarcini, José M. Romero-Enrique, and Andrew O. Parry

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024133 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

This paper discusses the influence of Casimir contributions to wetting transitions of fluid in the presence of a wall. Previous interfacial theories have overlooked this entropic contribution to the binding potential, which is equivalent to a thermal Casimir effect. The authors give physical insight into why the effect of bulk fluctuations matters and provide details about calculations.

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generalized Lotka-Volterra systems with quenched random interactions and saturating nonlinear response

Marco Zenari, Francesco Ferraro, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan, and Samir Suweis

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024206 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Generalized Lotka-Volterra models, common in ecology, are plagued by unbounded population growth. By adding a biologically realistic nonlinear interaction mechanism to address this issue, and studying the modified model’s phase diagram, the authors arrive at a more robust and ecologically grounded understanding of complex disordered ecosystems.

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiscale data assimilation in turbulent models

Francesco Fossella, Luca Biferale, Alberto Carrassi, Massimo Cencini, and Vikrant Gupta

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024208 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Data assimilation techniques make it possible to predict a system’s evolution by combining model predictions with sparse and noisy measurements. The authors apply these techniques to a chaotic multiscale model of turbulence, and find that measuring at intermediate scales can allow reconstruction of both large and small scales, while their technique compares well with other similar approaches.

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fracture and failure of shear-jammed dense suspensions under impact

Malcolm Slutzky, Alice Pelosse, Michael van der Naald, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025410 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

By performing a systematic series of impact tests, varying parameters such as impact velocity, solvent viscosity, and surface tension, the authors sketch a state diagram for dense suspensions, highlighting fracturing and nonfracturing behaviors across shear jamming, shear thickening, and liquidlike regimes.

#PedagogicalExposition #ElegantVisuals #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Acoustic transparency and absorption in dense granular suspensions

Arnaud Tourin, Yamil Abraham, Marie Palla, Arthur Le Ber, Romain Pierrat, Nicolas Benech, Carlos Negreira, and Xiaoping Jia

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025411 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

In this paper, the authors experimentally study wave propagation in two- and three-dimensional dense granular media and identify an acoustic transparency window, where scattering is substantially reduced, enabling low-frequency waves to propagate almost ballistically. They attribute this phenomenon to spatial correlations in the structural disorder of the medium, and support this interpretation with a theoretical model.

#TheoryExperiment #SoftMatterSpotlight

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Localization of information driven by stochastic resetting

Camille Aron and Manas Kulkarni

Phys. Rev. E 113, L022101 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

LETTER

Hydrodynamic instabilities in driven chiral suspensions

Seema Chahal and Brato Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. E 113, L023101 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Plasma Physics

LETTER

Friction-induced scale-selection in the extended Cahn-Hilliard model for zonal staircase

M. Leconte and T. S. Hahm

Phys. Rev. E 113, L023201 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Clogging-flowing transition of granular media in a two-dimensional vertical pipe

Y. Zhou, M. Li, Y. Guan, Y. Wang, Y. Liu, and Z. Zou

Phys. Rev. E 113, L023401 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

LETTER

Shear response of polyelectrolytes in water

Shalika Meedin, Gary S. Grest, and Dvora Perahia

Phys. Rev. E 113, L023402 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Solid-solid phase transitions across orientationally disordered phases: The case of tetrachloro- $m$ -xylene

Jonathan F. Gebbia, Ares Sanuy, Michela Romanini, David Aguilà, Phillipe Negrier, Stephane Massip, María del Barrio, Felix Fernandez-Alonso, Sanghamitra Mukhopadhyay, Markus Appel, Claudio Cazorla, Luis Carlos Pardo, and Josep Lluís Tamarit

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024101 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Quantum phase transitions in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model via mutual information within Husimi phase space representation

Elvira Romera, Manuel Calixto, and Octavio Castaños

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024102 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Dynamics of fixation probability in a population with fluctuating size

Kavita Jain and Hithesh Sumuni

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024103 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Diffusion in a wedge geometry: First-passage statistics under stochastic resetting

Fazil Najeeb, Arnab Pal, and V. V. Prasad

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024104 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Interplay of order and disorder in two-dimensional critical systems with mixed boundary conditions

E. Eisenriegler

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024105 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Nonuniqueness of the steady state for run-and-tumble particles with a double-well interaction potential

Léo Touzo and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024106 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

How target distributions shape optimal stochastic resetting

Gregorio García-Valladares, Antonio Prados, Alessandro Manacorda, and Carlos A. Plata

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024107 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Upper bound on locally extractable energy from entangled pure state under feedback control

Kanji Itoh, Yusuke Masaki, and Hiroaki Matsueda

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024108 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Universal fluctuations in the tail probability for $d = 2$ random walks in space-time random environments

Franscesca Ark, Jacob B. Hass, and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024109 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Tuning nonequilibrium phases with odd forces: From crystalline order to vortex structures in systems with competing interactions

Rui-xue Guo, Mian-zhi Dai, Jia-jian Li, and Bao-quan Ai

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024110 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Morphological properties of random arrays of infinitely long overlapping cylinders for modeling statistically homogeneous and isotropic fibrous media

Mahé Souveton, Franck Enguehard, and Vital Le Dez

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024111 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Effects of asymmetric interaction on thermalization: Boundary conditions and asymptotic integrability

Yuqi Han, Yue Liu, Xuan Zhang, and Dahai He

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024112 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Steady states in a model of opposing local and nonlocal hops

Ankur Mishra and Apoorva Nagar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024113 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Criticality in one-dimensional field theories with mesoscopic, infinite-range interactions

Kurt Langfeld and Amanda Turner

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024114 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Fermion sign problem and the structure of Lee-Yang zeros: The form of the partition function for indistinguishable particles and its zeros at 0 K

Ran-Chen He, Jia-Xi Zeng, Shu Yang, Cong Wang, Qi-Jun Ye, and Xin-Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024115 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Lindblad many-body scars

Antonio M. García-García, Zhongling Lu, Lucas Sá, and Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024116 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Statistical quantum mechanics of the random permutation sorting system: A self-stabilizing true uniform random number generator

Randy Kuang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024117 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Growth of clusters and scale-free distribution at the phase transition point of the two-dimensional Q2R-Potts model

F. Urbina-Parada, J. Tortella, M. Montalva-Medel, and F. Borotto

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024118 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Entropy-based analysis of single-qubit Otto and Carnot heat engines

Andrés Vallejo, Catty Lissardy, Santiago Silva-Gallo, Alejandro Romanelli, and Raúl Donangelo

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024119 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Determination of particle-size distributions from light-scattering measurement using constrained Gaussian process regression

Fahime Seyedheydari, Mahdi Nasiri, Marcin Mińkowski, and Simo Särkkä

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024120 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Multiscale complexity of two-dimensional Ising systems with short-range, ferromagnetic interactions

Ibrahim Al-Azki and Valentina Baccetti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024121 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Phase transitions in two-dimensional Potts models in an external field

Shan-Ho Tsai, L. S. Ferreira, J. A. Plascak, and D. P. Landau

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024122 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Thermophoresis in elementary open quantum systems

Maurício Matos, Thiago Werlang, and Daniel Valente

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024123 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Universalities in a constrained motion of a particle with memory friction: A bead of a Rouse chain on a periodic wire

Eugene B. Postnikov and Igor M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024124 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Dual thermal pseudocritical features in a spin-1/2 Ising chain with twin-diamond geometry

Onofre Rojas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024125 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Variational approach to nonholonomic and inequality-constrained mechanics

A. Rothkopf and W. A. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024126 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

High-temperature modulations, mesoscale interactions, and hyperscaling breakdown in Ising models with frustration: Some insights from thermodynamic geometry

Soumen Khatua, Vikram Patil, Anurag Sahay, and Riekshika Sanwari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024127 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Ground state candidate and thermodynamics of Apamea spin ice

Yuriy Shevchenko, Vladislav Strongin, Ivan Trefilov, Eliza Lobanova, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Nikita Ternovoi, Mihail Cherkasov, and Konstantin Nefedev

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024128 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Join gate with memory in token-conserving Brownian circuits and the thermodynamic cost

Yasuhiro Utsumi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024129 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Nonequilibrium fluctuation-response relations for state observables

Krzysztof Ptaszyński, Timur Aslyamov, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024130 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Nonequilibrium fluctuation-response relations for state-current correlations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński, Timur Aslyamov, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024131 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Charge-carrier trapping effect on $1 / f$ noise in monolayer graphene

K. A. Kazakov and T. M. Valitov

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024132 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Influence of the Casimir effect on the binding potential for three-dimensional wetting

Alessio Squarcini, José M. Romero-Enrique, and Andrew O. Parry

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024133 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for feedback cooling

Kousuke Kumasaki, Kaito Tojo, Takahiro Sagawa, and Ken Funo

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024134 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Re-examining quantum walk advantages: A mean hitting time perspective

Jan Wójcik

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024135 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Tilings of a bounded region of the plane by maximal one-dimensional tiles

Eduardo J. Aguilar, Valmir C. Barbosa, Raul Donangelo, Welles A. M. Morgado, and Sergio R. Souza

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024136 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Out-of-equilibrium spinodal-like scaling behaviors at the thermal first-order transitions of three-dimensional $q$ -state Potts models

Andrea Pelissetto, Davide Rossini, and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024137 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Absolute negative mobility induced by nonlinear interparticle coupling

Wenjun Liu (刘文君), Haojie Luo (罗浩杰), and Lei Wang (王雷)

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024138 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Cluster percolation in the three-dimensional $\pm J$ random-bond Ising model

L. Münster and M. Weigel

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024139 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Transfer entropy characterization of causal relations in heat transport near equilibrium

Antonio Ivan Rivera Islas, Ruth Estephania Gonzalez-Narvaez, Federico Vázquez, and Mariano López de Haro

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024140 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Phase transitions of coupled Ising chains with resultant temperature-dependent interactions

Jozef Sznajd

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024141 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Ergotropic advantage in a measurement-fueled quantum heat engine

Sidhant Jakhar and Ramandeep S. Johal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024142 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Universal finite-size scaling in high-dimensional critical phenomena

Yucheng Liu, Jiwoon Park, and Gordon Slade

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024143 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Macroscopic dynamics of quadratic integrate-and-fire neurons subject to correlated noise

Hui Wang and Chunming Zheng

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024201 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Quasi-two-dimensional soliton in a self-repulsive spin-orbit-coupled dipolar binary condensate

S. K. Adhikari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024202 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Delay induced double explosive transition in a swarmalator system

Carmel T. Lambu, Romuald T. Mbonwouo, Gael R. Simo, Delors A. Jiofack, Steve J. Kongni, Patrick Louodop, and Hilda A. Cerdeira

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024203 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Memory-dependent bistability and criticality in a stochastic Wilson-Cowan model

Qi Gong and Tianshou Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024204 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Stability of stationary solutions in acoustic wave turbulence

Guillaume Costa, Giorgio Krstulovic, and Sergey Nazarenko

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024205 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generalized Lotka-Volterra systems with quenched random interactions and saturating nonlinear response

Marco Zenari, Francesco Ferraro, Sandro Azaele, Amos Maritan, and Samir Suweis

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024206 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

Intrinsic resonance depends on network size for coupled-delayed interacting oscillators

Felipe A. Torres, Alejandro Weinstein, Jesus M. Cortes, and Wael El-Deredy

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024207 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiscale data assimilation in turbulent models

Francesco Fossella, Luca Biferale, Alberto Carrassi, Massimo Cencini, and Vikrant Gupta

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024208 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

Ruelle-Pollicott decay of out-of-time-order correlators in many-body systems

Jerónimo Duarte, Ignacio García-Mata, and Diego A. Wisniacki

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024209 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Master stability functions for torus and stable equilibrium attractors

Sajad Jafari, Fatemeh Parastesh, Atiyeh Bayani, Karthikeyan Rajagopal, Qiang Lai, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024211 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Semiclassical mechanism of sawtooth structure tunneling

Kin'ya Takahashi, Yasutaka Hanada, and Kensuke S. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024212 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Modulational instability and charge localization in the Holstein-SSH model of DNA with mass impurities

R. Y. Ondoua, A. Dang Koko, R. Abouem A Ribama, C. B. Tabi, H. P. Ekobena Fouda, and J. P. Nguenang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024213 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Experimental study of coupled quantum billiards with integrable and chaotic classical dynamics and test of a special Rosenzweig-Porter model

Xiaodong Zhang, Jiongning Che, and Barbara Dietz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024214 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Influence of topology on performance of pore networks in membrane filters

M. Illingworth, B. Gu, L. Cummings, and L. Kondic

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024301 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Spatiotemporal determinants of vector-borne disease outbreaks

Bibandhan Poudyal and Gourab Ghoshal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024302 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Percolation of random compact diamond-shaped systems on the square lattice

Charles S. do Amaral, Mateus G. Soares, and Robert M. Ziff

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024303 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Nonmonotonic consensus transitions in bounded-confidence dynamics on unbiased networks

Paolo Molignini

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024304 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Eco-evolutionary games with zealots

Hasib Mahmud, Samrat Sohel Mondal, and Md. Rajib Arefin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024305 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Superstable geometry in triadic percolation

Fatemeh Aghaei, Abbas Ali Saberi, Holger Kantz, and Jürgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024306 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Centrality and universality in scale-free networks

V. Adami, S. Emdadi-Mahdimahalleh, H. J. Herrmann, and M. N. Najafi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024307 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Scale-free points-of-interest distribution in a city emerging from homogeneous Poissonian-point processes

Eleonora Andreotti, Ulysse Marquis, Maurizio Napolitano, and Riccardo Gallotti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024308 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Properties of pedestrians walking in line without density constraint

Cécile Appert-Rolland, Anne-Hélène Olivier, and Julien Pettré

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024309 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Diffusion on Vicsek fractals: Efficiency and the Wiener index

Sumeyye Bakim and Nurten Urlu Ozalan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024310 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Susceptibility for extremely low external fluctuations and critical behavior of Greenberg-Hastings neuronal model

Joaquin Almeira, Daniel A. Martin, Dante R. Chialvo, and Sergio A. Cannas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024311 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Parrondo-like evolutionary advantage from stochastic switching between specialist and generalist strategies in fluctuating environments

De-Ming Liu, Zhi-Xi Wu, and Jian-Yue Guan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024312 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Threshold model of language competition including the bilingual state

Mikhail V. Tamm, Els Heinsalu, Stefano Scialla, and Marco Patriarca

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024313 (2026) - Published 26 February, 2026

Renormalization of interacting random graph models

Alessio Catanzaro, Diego Garlaschelli, and Subodh P. Patil

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024314 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Biological Physics

Algal optics

Ming Yang, Sumit Kumar Birwa, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024401 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Predicting statistics of gene translocation events: Role of chromatin compaction and double-strand DNA break

Anirudh Jairam, Shuvadip Dutta, Sangram Kadam, Kiran Kumari, and Ranjith Padinhateeri

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024402 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Cortical tension links curvature to tissue growth in the cellular Potts model

Kai Lennard Fastabend, Cécile M. Bidan, John W. C. Dunlop, and Philip Kollmannsberger

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024403 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Master equation approach to the $n$ -coalescent problem

Bahram Houchmandzadeh

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024404 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Critical phase transition in bee movement dynamics can be modeled using a two-dimensional cellular automaton

Ivan Shpurov and Tom Froese

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024405 (2026) - Published 20 February, 2026

Temporal stimulus segmentation by reinforcement learning in populations of spiking neurons

Luisa Le Donne, Lik Chun Chan, Robert Urbanczik, Walter Senn, and Giancarlo La Camera

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024406 (2026) - Published 25 February, 2026

Sequence motif dynamics in RNA pools

Johannes Harth-Kitzerow, Tobias Göppel, Ludwig Burger, Torsten A. Enßlin, and Ulrich Gerland

Phys. Rev. E 113, 024407 (2026) - Published 27 February, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Assessment of mixing in rotating microfluidic channels: A variational calculus approach

Mahesh Kumar, Harshad Sanjay Gaikwad, and Pranab Kumar Mondal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025101 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Flow generation via catastrophic loss of equilibrium in weakly rotating self-gravitating fluids: A minimal idealized model

L. Gudushauri, N. L. Shatashvili, G. Shekiladze, and S. M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025102 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Translation and shape deformation of a microbubble driven by an acoustic traveling wave

Stephen J. Shaw

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025103 (2026) - Published 18 February, 2026

Scale-dependent breakdown of isotropic turbulence by off-axis rotation

Yijie Wang, Jun Chen, and Leonardo P. Chamorro

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025104 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Plasma Physics

Variational hydrodynamics of the classical Yukawa one-component plasma

Daniels Krimans and Hanno Kählert

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025201 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Similarity scaling for low-pressure capacitive radio-frequency ${CF}_{4}$ plasmas across operation modes

Zhenhua Zhou, Xiaokun Wang, Hanyang Li, Julian Schulze, Peter Hartmann, Zoltán Donkó, Yongxin Liu, and Yangyang Fu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025202 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

Influence of conical wire array geometry on plasma flow and temperature profiles of radiatively cooled jets

Luisa Izquierdo, Felipe Veloso, Miguel Escalona, Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca, Gonzalo Avaria, and Julio Valenzuela

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025203 (2026) - Published 11 February, 2026

Proper treatment of energy and momentum in time-modulated plasmas

Hossein Mehrpour Bernety, Dikshitulu K. Kalluri, and Mark A. Cappelli

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025204 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

Competition of stimulated Raman scattering modes in multibeam configuration

Zhuwen Lin, Yao Zhao, Hongwei Yin, Yilin Xu, Yaozhi Yi, Huanhuan Wu, and Jingxuan Mo

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025205 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Second-harmonic generation in the air-based femtosecond plasma under loose focusing

I. A. Nikolaeva, D. E. Shipilo, G. E. Rizaev, A. V. Koribut, T. A. Dick, D. V. Pushkarev, M. V. Levus, Ya. V. Grudtsyn, N. R. Vrublevskaya, N. A. Panov, O. G. Kosareva, L. V. Seleznev, and A. A. Ionin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025206 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

High-order moment closure for nonmagnetized electrons in partially ionized plasmas

A. Alvarez Laguna and K. Hara

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025207 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Injection and acceleration of electrons by radially polarized laser pulses in a plasma channel

P. Hadjisolomou, P. Valenta, R. Shaisultanov, T. M. Jeong, S. V. Bulanov, D. Gorlova, and C. P. Ridgers

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025208 (2026) - Published 23 February, 2026

Ultraintense half-cycle zeptosecond pulse generation via cascaded coherent wakefield synchrotron emission

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

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025209 (2026) - Published 24 February, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Data coarse graining can improve model performance

Alex Nguyen, David J. Schwab, and Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025301 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

A central paradox in machine learning concerns how lossy data transformations can improve generalization. The authors investigate this phenomenon using a solvable, high-dimensional regression model inspired by the renormalization group from statistical physics. They find that data coarse graining results in a new generalization phenomenon, distinct from the well-known double descent.

Machine learning symmetry discovery for integrable Hamiltonian dynamics

Wanda Hou, Molan Li, and Yi-Zhuang You

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025302 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Modeling of contact angle hysteresis for rigid mobile particles: A phase-field lattice Boltzmann approach

Malyadeep Bhattacharya, Jovina Vaswani, Sachin S. Velankar, and Amol Subhedar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025303 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Harnessing intuitive local evolution rules for physical learning

Roie Ezraty, Menachem Stern, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025304 (2026) - Published 13 February, 2026

Quantum approximate optimization of finite-state bosonic systems

Shakib Daryanoosh

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025305 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Combining harmonic sampling with the worm algorithm to improve the efficiency of path integral Monte Carlo

Sourav Karmakar, Sutirtha Paul, Adrian Del Maestro, and Barak Hirshberg

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025306 (2026) - Published 19 February, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Gauge theory of orientation in anisotropic fluids

Nam Nguyen-Tran-Thanh, Truong Nguyen-Xuan, and Hai Pham-Van

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025401 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Laning transitions in pattern-forming driven binary systems with competing interactions

C. Reichhardt and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025402 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Landau-de Gennes modeling of confinement effects and cybotactic clusters in bent-core nematic liquid crystals

Yucen Han, Prabakaran Rajamanickam, Bedour Alturki, and Apala Majumdar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025403 (2026) - Published 2 February, 2026

Rayleigh-Taylor instability in size-bidisperse isodense granular flow down an incline

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

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025404 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Structural and dynamical crossovers in dense electrolytes

Daehyeok Kim, Taejin Kwon, and Jeongmin Kim

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025405 (2026) - Published 3 February, 2026

Estimation of spatial and time scales of collective behaviors of active matter through learning hydrodynamic equations from particle dynamics

Bappaditya Roy and Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025406 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Temperature overshooting in the Mpemba effect of frictional active matter

Alexander P. Antonov and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025407 (2026) - Published 4 February, 2026

Confinement reveals hidden splay-bend order in twist-bend nematics

Szymon Drzazga, Piotr Kubala, and Lech Longa

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025408 (2026) - Published 5 February, 2026

Defect configuration of an active nematic around a circular obstacle

Hiroki Matsukiyo (松清洋輝) and Jun-ichi Fukuda (福田順一)

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025409 (2026) - Published 6 February, 2026

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Fracture and failure of shear-jammed dense suspensions under impact

Malcolm Slutzky, Alice Pelosse, Michael van der Naald, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025410 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

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Acoustic transparency and absorption in dense granular suspensions

Arnaud Tourin, Yamil Abraham, Marie Palla, Arthur Le Ber, Romain Pierrat, Nicolas Benech, Carlos Negreira, and Xiaoping Jia

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025411 (2026) - Published 9 February, 2026

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Active chain spirograph: Dynamic patterns formed in extensible chains due to follower activity

Sattwik Sadhu, Nitin Kriplani, Anirban Sain, and Raghunath Chelakkot

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025412 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Tuning reentrant phase behavior of silica nanoparticles in polymer suspension via interplay of interactions

Sushma, Sugam Kumar, Joachim Kohlbrecher, and Vinod K. Aswal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025413 (2026) - Published 10 February, 2026

Anomalous ion transport in saline solutions under electric fields: A molecular dynamic study

M. Landeiro Dos Reis, S. Touzain, and A. El Hamidi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025414 (2026) - Published 12 February, 2026

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Molecular dynamics simulation on current-voltage characteristics of room temperature ionic liquids under strong electric field

Yufeng Cheng, Alberto T. Pérez, Weizong Wang, and Antonio Ramos

Phys. Rev. E 113, 025415 (2026) - Published 17 February, 2026

Researchers have used molecular dynamics simulations to study changes in the charge-transport properties of a room-temperature ionic liquid under a strong electric field.