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Volume 113, Issue 4

April 2026
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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

From scattered to focused: Task-dependent connectivity in honey bees, with midge swarms and bird flocks

Ishriak Ahmed, Md. Saiful Islam, and Imraan A. Faruque

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044403 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

This is a study of swarming in three different biological systems, honey bees, midges, and jackdaws. The authors combine three complementary network identification approaches with anisotropy analysis to identify task-dependent interaction neighborhood size. The work provides a framework for uncovering emergence of collective motion in different biological systems.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClearMotivation #WellStructured

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffusion in nonequilibrium two-dimensional crystals

Ashley Z. Guo, Sam Wilken, Dov Levine, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044108 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

The authors consider a two-dimensional nonequilibrium model, where particles interact only through repulsive kicks when they overlap. The system goes through a sequence of phase transitions exhibiting reentrancy, from a disordered phase to a hexagonal crystal and then to a second disordered phase. The driving parameter is the size of the repulsive kicks, which is the mechanism for both ordering and disordering.

#AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical field theory for dialectology

James Burridge

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044310 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

This paper is a step toward a statistical field theory of language evolution. The author combines tools of statistical physics with tools of statistical inference to create a model in which macroscopic language patterns are rooted in plausible human behaviors.

#Interdisciplinary #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion

Charles J. Edelson, Paul Smith, Sima Setayeshgar, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044412 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

By pairing a fly-eye-inspired camera with motion signals, this study shows that characteristic perceptual biases arise from input statistics. From camera data sampled in nature, the authors construct optimal motion estimators, suggesting that biological performance is limited more by environmental statistics than physiology.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ElegantVisuals #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perfect adaptation in eukaryotic gradient sensing using cooperative allosteric binding

Vishnu Srinivasan, Wei Wang (汪巍), and Brian A. Camley

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044414 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

This study introduces a theoretical model explaining how eukaryotic cells can achieve perfect adaptation in chemical gradient sensing through cooperative allosteric regulation of receptor activity.

#AdvancingField #BiophysicsSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic theory of emulsions with matter supply

Jacqueline Janssen, Frank Jülicher, and Christoph A. Weber

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045420 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

This study extends the classical Ostwald ripening theory to phase-separating systems that continuously receive material from an external reservoir. It considers two transport regimes: diffusion-limited transport through the dilute phase and interface-resistance-limited transport across droplet interfaces, as well as two modes of material input: constant supersaturation and constant supply rate.

#AdvancingField #ClassicProblem #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION
LETTER

Milestone toward an electron cyclotron resonance ion plasma accelerator demonstrator

Andrea Cernuschi, Thomas Thuillier, and Laurent Garrigues

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043202 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Plasma-based accelerators are often distinguished by their compact size. This paper presents theoretical designs for several compact plasma-based devices to accelerate ions relevant for medical applications. Design parameters are validated with a Monte Carlo particle-tracking code.

#TechnicalAdvancement #TimelyTopic

EDITORS' SUGGESTION
LETTER

Spontaneous rotation and propulsion of suspended capsules in active nematics

Júlio P. A. Santos, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, and Rodrigo C. V. Coelho

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043401 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Elastic shells are present in nature, as in viral capsids and red blood cells, and are often found immersed in flowing fluids. In this manuscript, the authors study a two-dimensional active nematic fluid with an embedded elastic capsule and explore how the geometry and flexibility of these elastic shells dictate their motility via defect-mediated dynamics.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #ClearMotivation

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Proxitaxis: An adaptive search strategy based on proximity and stochastic resetting

Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio, Manas Kulkarni, Satya N. Majumdar, and Sanjib Sabhapandit

Phys. Rev. E 113, L042101 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

LETTER

Universality of shocks in conserved driven single-file motions with bottlenecks

Sourav Pal and Abhik Basu

Phys. Rev. E 113, L042102 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

LETTER

Phase transitions and finite-size effects in integrable virial statistical models

Xin An, Francesco Giglio, and Giulio Landolfi

Phys. Rev. E 113, L042103 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

LETTER

Reversal of tracer advection and Hall drift in an interacting chiral fluid

Erik Kalz, Shashank Ravichandir, Johannes Birkenmeier, Ralf Metzler, and Abhinav Sharma

Phys. Rev. E 113, L042104 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Interlinks enhance quantum transport on multilayer networks

Mircea Galiceanu

Phys. Rev. E 113, L042301 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Plasma Physics

LETTER

Nonmodal growth and optimal perturbations in magnetohydrodynamic shear flows

Adrian E. Fraser, Alexis K. Kaminski, and Jeffrey S. Oishi

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043201 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION
LETTER

Milestone toward an electron cyclotron resonance ion plasma accelerator demonstrator

Andrea Cernuschi, Thomas Thuillier, and Laurent Garrigues

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043202 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Plasma-based accelerators are often distinguished by their compact size. This paper presents theoretical designs for several compact plasma-based devices to accelerate ions relevant for medical applications. Design parameters are validated with a Monte Carlo particle-tracking code.

#TechnicalAdvancement #TimelyTopic

LETTER

Self-mediation of runaway electrons via self-excited wave-wave and wave-particle interactions

Qile Zhang, Yanzeng Zhang, Qi Tang, and Xian-Zhu Tang

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043203 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

LETTER

Optimizing particle transport for enhanced confinement in quasi-isodynamic stellarators

A. Bañón Navarro, A. Di Siena, F. Jenko, A. Merlo, and E. Laude

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043204 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

LETTER

Universal spin models are universal approximators in machine learning

Tobias Reinhart and Gemma De les Coves

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043301 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

LETTER

Renormalization-inspired effective field neural networks for scalable modeling of classical and quantum many-body systems

Xi Liu, Yujun Zhao, Chun Yu Wan, Yang Zhang, and Junwei Liu

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043302 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

LETTER

Mirror states enable lower viscosity lattice gases

Noah Seekins and Alexander J. Wagner

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043303 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION
LETTER

Spontaneous rotation and propulsion of suspended capsules in active nematics

Júlio P. A. Santos, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, and Rodrigo C. V. Coelho

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043401 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Elastic shells are present in nature, as in viral capsids and red blood cells, and are often found immersed in flowing fluids. In this manuscript, the authors study a two-dimensional active nematic fluid with an embedded elastic capsule and explore how the geometry and flexibility of these elastic shells dictate their motility via defect-mediated dynamics.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #ClearMotivation

LETTER

General two-parameter model of alpha-relaxation in glasses

Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Oleg Gendelman, Riccardo Casalini, and Alessio Zaccone

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043402 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

LETTER

Molecular dynamics insights into the Debye process of 1-propanol

Marceau Hénot and Jan Philipp Gabriel

Phys. Rev. E 113, L043403 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Diffusion of gravitactic chiral active Brownian particles in an asymmetric channel

Narender Khatri, Vikas Sharma, Anton F. Burnet, and Suneet Kumar Awasthi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044101 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Tethering effects on first-passage variables of lattice random walks in linear and quadratic focal point potentials

Debraj Das and Luca Giuggioli

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044102 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Virtual walks in the Ising model: Finite-time scaling

Amit Pradhan, Parongama Sen, and Sagnik Seth

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044103 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Understanding jump discontinuity in disordered system

Anjan Daimari and Diana Thongjaomayum

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044104 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Three-state majority-vote model on a simple cubic lattice

Wooseop Kwak, Jae Hwan Lee, and Jin Min Kim

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044105 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Generation of concurrence in a generalized central spin model with a three-spin interacting environment

Adithya A. Vasista, Anushka Agrawal, and Tanay Nag

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044106 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Renormalization group for spectral collapse in random matrices with power-law variance profiles

Philipp Fleig

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044107 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Diffusion in nonequilibrium two-dimensional crystals

Ashley Z. Guo, Sam Wilken, Dov Levine, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044108 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

The authors consider a two-dimensional nonequilibrium model, where particles interact only through repulsive kicks when they overlap. The system goes through a sequence of phase transitions exhibiting reentrancy, from a disordered phase to a hexagonal crystal and then to a second disordered phase. The driving parameter is the size of the repulsive kicks, which is the mechanism for both ordering and disordering.

#AdvancingField #Interdisciplinary

Heat dissipation in marginally stable linear time-delayed Langevin systems

Xin Wang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044109 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Stochastic field effects in a two-state system: Symmetry breaking and symmetry restoring

Sara Oliver-Bonafoux, Raúl Toral, and Amitabha Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044110 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Generalized master equation for particle transport in binary random media with renewal statistics

Anil K. Prinja and Dominic A. Lioce

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044111 (2026) - Published 6 April, 2026

Domain coarsening in fractonic systems: A cascade of critical exponents

Jacopo Gliozzi, Federico Balducci, and Giuseppe De Tomasi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044112 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits

Sebastian Deffner

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044113 (2026) - Published 8 April, 2026

Building causation links in stochastic nonlinear systems from data

Sergio Chibbaro, Cyril Furtlehner, Théo Marchetta, Andrei-Tiberiu Pantea, and Davide Rossetti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044114 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Equilibrium properties in a harmonically confined two-component log gas

Saikat Santra

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044115 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Microscopically reversible kinetic theory of flocking

Ruben Lier

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044116 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Revisiting the phase diagram of hard-sphere dumbbells with nested sampling: Known phases and alternative packing variants

Omar-Farouk Adesida, David Quigley, and Livia B. Pártay

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044117 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Beyond constant-temperature reservoirs: A Stirling cycle with constant heat-generation rate

Xinshu Xia, Hongbo Huang, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044118 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Entropic and kinetic susceptibility equality out of equilibrium

Takaaki Monnai

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044119 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Exponents and front fluctuations in the quenched Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class of one- and two-dimensional interfaces

A. Tajuelo-Valbuena, J. Trujillo-Mulero, J. J. Meléndez, R. Cuerno, and J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044120 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Enhancing quantum heat engine performance via unitary-enabled exponential speedup of thermalization

Dehua Liu and Jianhui Wang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044121 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Impact of fluctuations on particle systems described by Dean-Kawasaki-type equations

Nathan O. Silvano, Emilio Hernández-García, and Cristóbal López

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044122 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Symmetry breaking of current response in disordered exclusion processes

Issei Sakai and Takuma Akimoto

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044123 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Logarithmic subdiffusion from a damped bath model

Thomas Guff and Andrea Rocco

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044124 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Random planting with harvest: A statistical-mechanical analysis

Julian Talbot

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044125 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Reaching maximum efficiency in quantum Stirling engines using multilayer graphene

Bastian Castorene, Francisco J. Peña, Eric Suárez Morell, Caio Lewenkopf, Martin HvE Groves, Natalia Cortés, and Patricio Vargas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044126 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Diversity as an entropic measure derived from entropiclike functionals

Eugenio E. Vogel, Constantino Tsallis, and Gonzalo Saravia

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044127 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Integrability and chaos via fractal analysis of spectral form factors: Gaussian approximations and exact results

Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Jovan Odavić, and Alioscia Hamma

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044128 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Temperature-Induced Quantum Migration and local heat capacity in confined Fermi gases

Altug Sisman and Jonas Fransson

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044129 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Reliability of a nonlinear fluctuation-dissipation relation as a test of Markovianity

Georg Podhaisky, Igor M. Sokolov, Yael Roichman, and Benjamin Lindner

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044130 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Hierarchical balance theory: Emergence of instability in follower layer below critical temperatures

Amir Kargaran, Houman Jafari, and G. Reza Jafari

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044131 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Optimal finite-time thermodynamics of effective two-level systems

Alberto Rolandi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044133 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Reinterpreting diffusive constraints: Concentration cloaking via homogenization and pseudoconformal mapping

Yuqian Zhao, Yuhong Zhou, Peng Jin, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044134 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Transformation of the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution to a power law

Ari Laor and Igor Gitelman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044135 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

Stochastic systems with Bose-Hubbard interactions: Effects of bias on particles on a one-dimensional lattice

Swastik Majumder and Mustansir Barma

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044136 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Stochastic systems with Bose-Hubbard interactions: Effects of bias on particles on a random comb

Swastik Majumder and Mustansir Barma

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044137 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Field-theoretic simulation of Dean-Kawasaki dynamics for interacting particles

Jaehyeok Jin, Chen Liu, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044138 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Nonreciprocal interactions and high-dimensional chaos: Comparing dynamics and statistics of equilibria in a solvable class of models

Samantha J. Fournier, Alessandro Pacco, Valentina Ros, and Pierfrancesco Urbani

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044139 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Strong-damping limit of quantum Brownian motion in a disordered environment

Arthur M. Faria, Marcus V. S. Bonança, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044140 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Toda-like Hamiltonian as a probe for quantized prey-predator dynamics

Alex E. Bernardini and Orfeu Bertolami

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044201 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Robust stabilization of fractional spatiotemporal chaos via model-free deep reinforcement learning

Gang-Cheng Huang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044202 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Chaotic variability in a model of coupled ice streams

Kolja Kypke, Peter Ashwin, and Peter Ditlevsen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044203 (2026) - Published 8 April, 2026

Dispersive shock waves in periodic lattices

Su Yang, Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044204 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Comparative study of indicators of chaos in the closed and open Dicke model

Prasad Pawar, Arpan Bhattacharyya, and B. Prasanna Venkatesh

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044205 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Multilators on a 3-Torus: A framework for high-dimensional coupled oscillators

Porikshit Mondal, Rakshita Sharma, V. K. Chandrasekar, Wei Zou, and D. V. Senthilkumar

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044206 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Chaotic ghosts in systems with parameter drift: Delay and control critical transitions

Han Su, Denghui Li, Jicheng Duan, Xiaoming Zhang, Yuan Yue, and Celso Grebogi

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044207 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Analytical determination of multitime correlation functions in quantum chaotic systems

Yoana R. Chorbadzhiyska, Peter A. Ivanov, and Charlie Nation

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044208 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Floquet thermalization by power-law induced permutation symmetry breaking

Manju C and Uma Divakaran

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044209 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Hamiltonian structure and integrability of the susceptible-cleric-zombie-recovered epidemic model

Hamdi M. Abdelhamid

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044210 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Self-consistent Born theory for the Duffing oscillator

Martín E. Giuliano

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044211 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Identifying wave sources using flow velocity method in excitable media

Jin-Tao Mei, Qi-Hao Li, Yuan-Xun Xia, Jun-Ting Pan, Alexander V. Panfilov, and Hong Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044212 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Partial amplitude death in aging transition of coupled oscillators with amplitude heterogeneity

Longjun Wang, Jiangnan Chen, Lin Yan, and Weiqing Liu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044213 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Synchronization driven acoustics: The nonlinear scattering of a self-oscillating meta-atom

Alexander K. Stoychev, Xinxin Guo, Ulrich Kuhl, and Nicolas Noiray

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044214 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Trade-off between multiplicity and specificity in the interlayer connectivity of nonidentical multilayer networks

Aradhana Singh, Amod Rai, Sheksha Dudekula, Devanarayanan P., and Antonio Palacios

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044215 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Transient chaos and Rayleigh particle escape out of a time modulated optical trap

Evgeny N. Bulgakov, Konstantin N. Pichugin, and Dmitrii N. Maksimov

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044216 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

Quantum chaos and semiclassical behavior in mushroom billiards I: Spectral statistics

Matic Orel, Črt Lozej, Marko Robnik, and Hua Yan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044217 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Quantum chaos and semiclassical behavior in mushroom billiards II: Structure of quantum eigenstates and their phase space localization properties

Matic Orel and Marko Robnik

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044218 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Turing instability and pattern formation in a diffusive predator-prey system with opportunistic predators and weak Allee effect

Wenjie Li, Wenhao Bai, and Jinde Cao

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044219 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Number of spanning trees as an indicator of critical phenomena: When Kirchhoff meets Ising

Roberto da Silva, Henrique A. Fernandes, Paulo F. Gomes, Sebastian Gonçalves, E. V. Stock, and A. Alves

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044301 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Extreme events of quantum walks on networks

Nisarg Vyas and M. S. Santhanam

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044302 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Effect of phase-lag on synchronization in adaptive multilayer networks with higher-order interactions

Anath Bandhu Das, Sangita Dutta, and Pinaki Pal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044303 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Emergence of autocatalysis in prebiotic reaction networks

Varun Varanasi and Jun Korenaga

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044304 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Spectral coarse-graining scheme inspired by Laplacian renormalization group for higher-order network reaction-diffusion systems

Linhe Zhu, Wenlong Zhang, and Shuling Shen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044305 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Minimal model of self-organized clusters with phase transitions in ecological communities

Shing Yan Li, Mehran Kardar, Zhijie Feng, and Washington Taylor

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044306 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Optimal control and evolutionary behavior in a two-layer epidemic model with travel restriction and social distancing

M. A. H. Sajib, Md. Rajib Arefin, Md. Aslam Hossain, and Jun Tanimoto

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044307 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Impacts of bridging nodes on the epidemic activation mechanisms

José Carlos M. Silva, Diogo H. Silva, Wesley Cota, Francisco A. Rodrigues, and Silvio C. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044308 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Maximum entropy temporal networks

Paolo Barucca

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044309 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical field theory for dialectology

James Burridge

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044310 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

This paper is a step toward a statistical field theory of language evolution. The author combines tools of statistical physics with tools of statistical inference to create a model in which macroscopic language patterns are rooted in plausible human behaviors.

#Interdisciplinary #AdvancingField

Algebraic topological characterizations of tie strength in higher-order social networks

Arnab Sarker, Jean-Baptiste Seby, Austin Benson, and Ali Jadbabaie

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044311 (2026) - Published 24 April, 2026

Biological Physics

Policy heterogeneity improves collective olfactory search in three-dimensional turbulence

Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen, Maurizio Carbone, Luca Biferale, and Massimo Cencini

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044401 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Simplified analytical framework for fundamental vesicle shapes

Amir H. Bahrami

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044402 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS
EDITORS' SUGGESTION

From scattered to focused: Task-dependent connectivity in honey bees, with midge swarms and bird flocks

Ishriak Ahmed, Md. Saiful Islam, and Imraan A. Faruque

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044403 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

This is a study of swarming in three different biological systems, honey bees, midges, and jackdaws. The authors combine three complementary network identification approaches with anisotropy analysis to identify task-dependent interaction neighborhood size. The work provides a framework for uncovering emergence of collective motion in different biological systems.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClearMotivation #WellStructured

Learning to crawl: Benefits and limits of centralized versus distributed control

Luca Gagliardi and Agnese Seminara

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044404 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Elasticity and plasticity of epithelial gap closure

Maryam Setoudeh and Pierre A. Haas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044405 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Competitive binding of transcription factors as activator-repressor in stochastic gene expression

Amit Kumar Das and Debabrata Biswas

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044406 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Density of states weighted decoherence probe formalism for charge transport in DNA

Hashem Mohammad and M. P. Anantram

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044407 (2026) - Published 8 April, 2026

Ising models of cooperativity in muscle contraction

Elaheh Saadat, Matthieu Caruel, Stefano Gherardini, Ilaria Morotti, Matteo Marcello, Marco Caremani, Marco Linari, Ivan Latella, and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044408 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Dynamics of inducible genetic circuits

Zitao Yang, Rebecca J. Rousseau, Sara D. Mahdavi, Hernan G. Garcia, and Rob Phillips

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044409 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Directed swimming of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii near complex microstructures

Chunhe Li, Hongyi Bian, Zixiang Lin, Yi Man, and Zijie Qu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044410 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Dynamical diversity in conductance-based neuron response to kilohertz electrical stimulation

J. G. Polli, F. Kolbl, P. Lanusse, and M. G. E. da Luz

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044411 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

The FlEye camera: Sampling the joint distribution of natural scenes and motion

Charles J. Edelson, Paul Smith, Sima Setayeshgar, William Bialek, and Rob R. de Ruyter van Steveninck

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044412 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

By pairing a fly-eye-inspired camera with motion signals, this study shows that characteristic perceptual biases arise from input statistics. From camera data sampled in nature, the authors construct optimal motion estimators, suggesting that biological performance is limited more by environmental statistics than physiology.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ElegantVisuals #TheoryExperiment

Self-trapping of microorganisms steering toward their own trail

Aymeric Lutier, Jean-Baptiste Fournier, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044413 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perfect adaptation in eukaryotic gradient sensing using cooperative allosteric binding

Vishnu Srinivasan, Wei Wang (汪巍), and Brian A. Camley

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044414 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

This study introduces a theoretical model explaining how eukaryotic cells can achieve perfect adaptation in chemical gradient sensing through cooperative allosteric regulation of receptor activity.

#AdvancingField #BiophysicsSpotlight

Fitness inference tested by in silico population genetics

Hong-Li Zeng, Yu-Han Huang, Erik Aurell, and John Barton

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044415 (2026) - Published 22 April, 2026

Model reduction, coherence, and information transfer in stochastic biochemical systems

Juan David Marmolejo-Lozano, Nikola Popović, and Ramon Grima

Phys. Rev. E 113, 044416 (2026) - Published 29 April, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Comprehensive interscale energy transfer in homogeneous isotropic turbulence

Jun-Yang Li, Dong Sun, Si-Wei Dong, Peng-Xin Liu, and Xian-Xu Yuan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045101 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Analysis of instantaneous skin friction in a supersonic turbulent boundary layer

Rongji Hu, Zhikang Huang, Geng Zhao, Xue-Lu Xiong, Feng Liu, Jian Fang, and Yi Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045102 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Analytical solution for dynamic evaporation of liquid in isothermal condition

Luiz Eduardo Czelusniak, Tim Niklas Bingert, Stephan Simonis, Alexander J. Wagner, and Mathias J. Krause

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045103 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Emergence of vorticity and viscous stress in finite-scale quantum hydrodynamics

Christopher Triola

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045104 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Relation of exact hydrodynamics to the Chapman-Enskog series

Florian Kogelbauer and Ilya Karlin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045105 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Drag force and diffusion of small planar structures: A gas kinetic theory analysis and molecular dynamics study

Amitesh S. Jayaraman, Nikolaos Kateris, and Hai Wang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045106 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Quadratic Fokker-Planck model of monatomic rarefied gas

Henan Zhang, Hao Yang, Ziqi Cui, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045107 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Plasma Physics

Quantitative analysis of zonal flow influence on turbulent plasmas driven by trapped electrons

Jiheon Song, Jeff Candy, Emily Belli, and Jungpyo Lee

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045201 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Characterization of time-dependent x-ray drive at the center of a cylindrical hohlraum

Xufei Xie et al.

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045202 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Linear stability analysis of radiative effects on compressible Rayleigh-Taylor instability

Cunbo Zhang, Zongqiang Ma, Yang Song, Cheng-quan Fu, Zhengfeng Fan, Anmin He, and Pei Wang

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045203 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Laser-driven autoresonant acceleration of thermal electrons in plasma solenoid

Iu. Gagarin and Ph. Korneev

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045204 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Light drag in nonuniformly moving anisotropic media through the lens of gradient-index optics

Julien Langlois and Renaud Gueroult

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045205 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Modeling partially ionized dense plasma using wavepacket molecular dynamics

Daniel Plummer, Pontus Svensson, Wiktor Jasniak, Patrick Hollebon, Sam M. Vinko, and Gianluca Gregori

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045206 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Beam transverse dynamics in laser-plasma accelerators

Laury Batista, Samuel Marini, Nicolas Chauvin, Antoine Chancé, Didier Uriot, and Phu Anh Phi Nghiem

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045207 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Universal growth of magnetic energy during the nonlinear phase of subsonic and supersonic small-scale dynamos

Neco Kriel, Mark R. Krumholz, Patrick J. Armstrong, James R. Beattie, and Jennifer Schober

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045208 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Theory of beam-driven nonlinear plasma wake and interior waves

M. Lamač, P. Valenta, U. Chaulagain, J. Nejdl, D. Čáp, O. Morvai, and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045209 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Investigating solid-fluid phase coexistence in dc plasma bilayer crystals: The role of particle pairing and mode coupling

Siddhartha Mangamuri, L. Couëdel, and S. Jaiswal

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045210 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Theoretical study of the electron cyclotron resonance ion plasma accelerator concept

Andrea Cernuschi, Thomas Thuillier, and Laurent Garrigues

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045211 (2026) - Published 14 April, 2026

Implosion of cone-in-shell targets for direct-drive fast ignition

A. Mateo, J. J. Honrubia, D. A. Callahan, M. Brönner, W. Theobald, and M. Roth

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045212 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Anomalous collisionally induced transparency

Litong Xu, Guoqian Liao, Xinyao Zhang, Jieya Ruan, Tingting Xi, Xin Lu, and Yutong Li

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045213 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Formation of inverse electron distribution function in glow discharges with hollow cathode

E. A. Bogdanov, A. A. Kudryavtsev, and Chengxun Yuan

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045214 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Enhanced performance in quasi-isodynamic max-J stellarators with a turbulent particle pinch

G. G. Plunk, A. G. Goodman, P. Xanthopoulos, P. Costello, H. M. Smith, K. Aleynikova, C. D. Beidler, M. Drevlak, S. Stroteich, and P. Helander

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045215 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Extended phase-space symplectic integration for electron dynamics

François Mauger and Cristel Chandre

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045301 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Decomposing the collision operator in the lattice Boltzmann method

Julius Weinmiller, Benjamin Kellers, Martin P. Lautenschlaeger, Arnulf Latz, and Timo Danner

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045302 (2026) - Published 7 April, 2026

Double descent: When do neural quantum states generalize?

M. Schuyler Moss, Alev Orfi, Christopher Roth, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Antoine Georges, Dries Sels, Anna Dawid, and Agnes Valenti

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045303 (2026) - Published 8 April, 2026

Machine-learned quantum molecular dynamics calculations of warm dense equation of state and ionic transport coefficients of deuterated water

Margaret L. Berrens, Oleg Schilling, Evan B. Bauer, John E. Pask, Robert E. Rudd, Gavin D. Portwood, Sebastien Hamel, Lucas J. Babati, Scott D. Baalrud, and Nathaniel R. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045304 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Equilibrium-distribution-function-based mesoscopic finite-difference methods for partial differential equations: Modeling and analysis

Baochang Shi, Rui Du, and Zhenhua Chai

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045305 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Interpolation-supplemented quantum lattice Boltzmann method for incompressible flows with nonuniform mesh and curved boundary

Yang Xiao, Liming Yang, Hao Dong, and Yinjie Du

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045306 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Entropic alignment of topologically modified ring polymers in cylindrical confinement

Sanjay Bhandarkar, Debarshi Mitra, Jürgen Horbach, and Apratim Chatterji

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045401 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Dynamic heterogeneity and facilitation in sheared granular materials: Insights from three-dimensional triaxial testing

Kwangmin Lee, Brett S. Kuwik, and Ryan C. Hurley

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045402 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Mean-squared displacements of rough particles in polydisperse granular gases

Anna S. Bodrova

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045403 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Finite-time dehydration as a chemical reaction and its effect on counterion selectivity

I. Rubinstein, M. Z. Bazant, N. A. Kononenko, V. V. Nikonenko, and B. Zaltzman

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045404 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Adhesive loose packing limit of axisymmetric nonspherical particles

Zhu Fang, Xuan Ruan, Yiyang Zhang, Longfei Chen, and Shuiqing Li

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045405 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Effects of crowding and enzyme-driven active fluctuations on particle correlations in colloidal suspensions

Arnab Maiti, Syed Shuja Hasan Zaidi, Prabhat K. Jaiswal, and Krishna Kanti Dey

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045406 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Functional renormalization group for classical liquids without recourse to hard-core reference systems: A study of three-dimensional Lennard-Jones liquids

Takeru Yokota, Jun Haruyama, and Osamu Sugino

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045407 (2026) - Published 2 April, 2026

Numerically discovered inherent states are always protocol dependent in jammed packings

Eddie Bautista and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045408 (2026) - Published 3 April, 2026

Free chiral self-propelled robots compared to active Brownian circle swimmers

Thomas Kiechl, Amy Altshuler, Anton Lüders, Yael Roichman, and Thomas Franosch

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045409 (2026) - Published 6 April, 2026

Flow field induced crystallization of multicomponent colloids

Chetteente M. Ragisha, Noah Medina, Nihal M. Habeeb, Thi Vo, and Subramanyan Namboodiri Varanakkottu

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045410 (2026) - Published 9 April, 2026

Large temperature-up-jump simulations of a binary Lennard-Jones system

Aude Y. Amari, Lorenzo Costigliola, and Jeppe C. Dyre

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045411 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Analytical solution for diffusiophoretic mobility of soft particles considering finite ion size effect

Rahul Kumar Singh, Partha Sarathi Majee, and Hiroyuki Ohshima

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045412 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Thermodynamic response functions of fluids with repulsive inverse power pair potentials

D. M. Heyes and D. Dini

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045413 (2026) - Published 15 April, 2026

Interpretable liquid crystal phase classification via two-by-two ordinal patterns

Leonardo G. J. M. Voltarelli, Natalia Osiecka-Drewniak, Marcin Piwowarczyk, Ewa Juszyńska-Gałązka, Rafael S. Zola, Matjaž Perc, and Haroldo V. Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045414 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Influence of turbulence on the triboelectric charging of granular materials carried by an airflow

Thomas Gemine, Simon Dehareng, Thomas Andrianne, and Geoffroy Lumay

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045415 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Reverse Janssen effect with non-spherical grains

Adria Meca-Montserrat, Iker Zamorano, Caleb Anderson, Ramon Planet, and Alberto Fernandez-Nieves

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045416 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Striker impact on granular chains generates solitary waves or shocklike wave depending on ramp time of incoming pulse

Po-Hsun Chiu and Vitali F. Nesterenko

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045417 (2026) - Published 20 April, 2026

Impact of initial charge distributions on the kinetics of charged particle coagulation

Gustavo Castillo and Nicolás Mujica

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045418 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Only the ambidextrous can flock: Two-dimensional chiral Malthusian flocks, time cholesterics, and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation

Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045419 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic theory of emulsions with matter supply

Jacqueline Janssen, Frank Jülicher, and Christoph A. Weber

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045420 (2026) - Published 23 April, 2026

This study extends the classical Ostwald ripening theory to phase-separating systems that continuously receive material from an external reservoir. It considers two transport regimes: diffusion-limited transport through the dilute phase and interface-resistance-limited transport across droplet interfaces, as well as two modes of material input: constant supersaturation and constant supply rate.

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Mechanics, Interfaces, and Films

Genetically homogeneous sector morphologies emerge from anisotropic colony growth

Daniel W. Swartz, Hyunseok Lee, Mehran Kardar, and Kirill S. Korolev

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045501 (2026) - Published 1 April, 2026

Hydrostatic Newton-Cartan membranes

Domingo Gallegos and Carlos Málaga

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045502 (2026) - Published 16 April, 2026

Quantitative analysis of crack patterns in coatings

Tristan Schweiss and Ludovic Pauchard

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045503 (2026) - Published 17 April, 2026

Control of surface roughness by varying the temperature while a thin film is deposited

Edwin Edgar Mozo Luis, Thiago A. de Assis, and Fábio D. A. Aarão Reis

Phys. Rev. E 113, 045504 (2026) - Published 27 April, 2026

COMMENTS

Comment on “Discontinuous codimension-two bifurcation in a Vlasov equation”

Tarcísio N. Teles, Renato Pakter, and Yan Levin

Phys. Rev. E 113, 046201 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

Reply to “Comment on “Discontinuous codimension-two bifurcation in a Vlasov equation””

Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi and Julien Barré

Phys. Rev. E 113, 046202 (2026) - Published 28 April, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Carbon ionization from a quantum average-atom model up to gigabar pressures [Phys. Rev. E 104, 025209 (2021)]

Gérald Faussurier, Christophe Blancard, and Mandy Bethkenhagen

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049901 (2026) - Published 10 April, 2026

Erratum: Electron-ion coupling factor for temperature relaxation in dense plasmas [Phys. Rev. E 101, 023206 (2020)]

Gérald Faussurier

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049902 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Erratum: Density effects on electronic configurations in dense plasmas [Phys. Rev. E 97, 023206 (2018)]

Gérald Faussurier and Christophe Blancard

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049903 (2026) - Published 13 April, 2026

Erratum: Numerical investigation of atmospherelike flows in a spherical geometry [Phys. Rev. E 104, 065110 (2021)]

Vadim Travnikov and Christoph Egbers

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049904 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Erratum: Nonequilibrium protection effect and spatial localization of noise-induced fluctuations: Quasi-one-dimensional driven lattice gas with partially penetrable obstacle [Phys. Rev. E 109, 054103 (2024)]

S. P. Lukyanets and O. V. Kliushnichenko

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049905 (2026) - Published 21 April, 2026

Errata

Retraction: Multiparticle quantum heat engine: Exploring the impact of criticality on efficiency [Phys. Rev. E 112, 044104 (2025)]

Anass Hminat, Abdallah Slaoui, Brahim Amghar, and Rachid Ahl Laamara

Phys. Rev. E 113, 049906 (2026) - Published 30 April, 2026

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