Volume 114, Issue 2

August 2026

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EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Squishy Science Sunday—Recipes for Public Engagement

Shubha Tewari and Rae M. Robertson-Anderson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 020001 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Editorial: Fifth Annual APS DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter

Lilian C. Hsiao, Sujit S. Datta, Ellen Pørtner, Anđela Šarić, Imogen Barnes, Rylan Hodgson, Juyeong Hong, and Ian Lillie

Phys. Rev. E 114, 020002 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

We are happy to share the winning entries of the Fifth Gallery of Soft Matter in this PRE Guest Editorial. They feature images and videos of avalanching photoelastic grains, swelling seeds that wrinkle as they raft on water, self-assembled networks of DNA and starch, and biodegradable yarns knitted from algae.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Supersonic and superluminal energy and speed of information via temporal interference in a dispersionless environment

John L. Spiesberger and Eugene Terray

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025107 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

A theory inspired by whale tracking suggests that interference could make the peak of a light-wave packet appear to travel faster than light—without transmitting information superluminally.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonreciprocal dynamics with weak noise: Aperiodic “Escher cycles” and their quasipotential landscape

Janik Schüttler, Robert L. Jack, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024104 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Nonequilibrium systems with multiple metastable states can undergo noise-induced transitions that form cycles among the metastable states. To analyze this phenomenon, the authors introduce a minimal two-dimensional stochastic model with nonreciprocal couplings that can be treated analytically.

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Escape over a saddle by colored noise: Theory and numerics

Jiayao Shao (邵家瑶), Tobias Grafke, and Robert S. MacKay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024210 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

A computational approach efficiently models rare transition events driven by complex noise. It predicts optimal transition paths and rate scaling laws across unbounded time horizons.

#TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large-scale portfolio optimization with variational neural annealing

Nishan Ranabhat, Behnam Javanparast, David Goerz, and Estelle Inack

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024311 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Using a variational neural annealing approach to solve constrained portfolio optimization problems, the authors establish a connection between phase transitions in physics and computational complexity in finance. They demonstrate scaling behavior in financial optimization problems analogous to critical phenomena in spin glasses.

#Interdisciplinary #UniversalBehavior

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Arousal tunes neuronal avalanches across a directed percolation critical point

Brandon R. Munn, Christopher Whyte, Eli J. Müller, and James M. Shine

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024403 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

The authors present a study of critical phenomena in neural systems. They present evidence that cortical networks display criticality flexibly through arousal tuning. The work points out that arousal should be treated as an experimental control parameter, not as a source of noise.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TimelyTopic

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Towards probing velocity distributions in dense granular fluids: Utilizing fiber Bragg gratings

Marlo Kunzner, Luis Henriques, Fahad Puthalath, Leonardo Facchini, Mohammadhossein Shahsavari, Léa Gommeringer, Martin Angelmahr, Peidong Yu, Matthias Sperl, Till Böhmer, and Jan Philipp Gabriel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025410 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Velocity distributions in dense granular systems are difficult to measure because optical particle-tracking methods are hindered by opacity at high particle densities. In this work, a fiber Bragg grating sensor is introduced and shown to accurately recover granular velocity distributions by detecting collision-induced strain in an optical fiber, offering a viable alternative to existing methods for high volume fractions.

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dissipative self-assembly of colloidal suspensions

Jason Conradt and Eric M. Furst

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025416 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Microgravity experiments reveal how toggled magnetic fields drive paramagnetic colloids past kinetic arrest into dynamic, highly anisotropic phases that are sustained by continuous energy dissipation.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #ElegantVisuals #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Insight into the composition-dependent transition from auxetic nematic to frustrated smectic in liquid crystal elastomers

Emily J. Cooper, Stuart R. Berrow, Karine Margaryan, Gevorg Gevorgyan, Mariam Hakobyan, Thomas Raistrick, Ethan I. L. Jull, Devesh Mistry, Peter Hine, Aidan Street, Rafik Hakobyan, and Helen F. Gleeson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025417 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

This paper provides a systematic investigation into composition-dependent properties of side-chain acrylate liquid crystal elastomers. The work shows how small changes in mesogenic content can induce a phase transition and suggests design approaches for customization of material properties.

#ClearMotivation #TimelyTopic

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Thermodynamic geometry of friction on graphs: Resistance, commute times, and optimal transport

Jordan R. Sawchuk and David A. Sivak

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022105 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Geometric ideas play a role in areas such as stochastic thermodynamics, spectral graph theory, and optimal transport. In this Letter, the authors link a thermodynamic friction metric that governs dissipation in slowly driven systems with two graph-theoretic geometries, the commute-time and resistance distances.

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Demonstration of ignition-driven radiation transport through a THOR hohlraum

R. S. Lester et al.

Phys. Rev. E 114, L023201 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

The authors demonstrate fusion ignition in a hohlraum modified with diagnostic windows that burn through prior to ignition. This provides a platform for laboratory-astrophysics experiments previously inaccessible. The x-ray flux escaping the holraum during and after ignition is the brightest radiation source available in the laboratory.

#TechnicalAdvancement #TimelyTopic

PERSPECTIVES

PERSPECTIVE

Biofilms as living soft materials: Towards a mechanistic description of their linear and nonlinear mechanics

Eleonora Secchi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 021001 (2026) - Published 20 August, 2026

Reframing bacterial biofilms through soft matter physics connects microscopic structural dynamics to macroscopic deformation. This framework helps identify key physical variables governing complex nonlinear behaviors such as detachment and adaptation.

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Emergent population dynamics of random walkers with cooperative reproduction and spatial selection

Ohad Vilk and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022101 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

LETTER

Counting observables in stochastic excursions

Guilherme Fiusa, Pedro E. Harunari, Abhaya S. Hegde, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022102 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

LETTER

Six universality classes govern the critical and multicritical behavior of an active Ising model

Matthew Wong and Chiu Fan Lee

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022103 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

LETTER

Quantum statistical mechanical gauge invariance

Johanna Müller and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022104 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Thermodynamic geometry of friction on graphs: Resistance, commute times, and optimal transport

Jordan R. Sawchuk and David A. Sivak

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022105 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

LETTER

Matrix thermodynamic uncertainty relation for non-Abelian charge transport

Domingos S. P. Salazar

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022106 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

LETTER

Stochastic synthesis-degradation processes: First-passage properties and connections with resetting

Gabriel Mercado-Vásquez and Denis Boyer

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022107 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

LETTER

Probability-current reorganization lowers the cost of finite-time Brownian erasure

Kaiming Luo

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022108 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Spatiotemporal parametric instabilities in a soft strip

E. Duval, F. Pétrélis, V. Tournat, J. Asnacios, S. Fauve, and M. Lanoy

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022201 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

LETTER

Experimental Kuramoto platform

Leandro Freitas, Victor H. S. Bittencourt, Débora D. Superbi, Wanderley C. Silva Junior, Arthur N. Montanari, and Luis A. Aguirre

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022202 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Asymptotic versus mesoscopic spectral dimensions in networks and inhomogeneous structures

Lorenzo Grimaldi, Pablo Villegas, Alessandro Vezzani, Raffaella Burioni, Davide Cassi, and Andrea Gabrielli

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022301 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

LETTER

Noise-shaped synchrony in neuronal oscillator networks

Max Contreras and Philipp Hövel

Phys. Rev. E 114, L022302 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

LETTER

Growth of helicity in salt-finger convection in the two-dimensional three-component limit

Smiron Varghese, Benjamin Miquel, and Wouter J. T. Bos

Phys. Rev. E 114, L023101 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Plasma Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

LETTER

Demonstration of ignition-driven radiation transport through a THOR hohlraum

R. S. Lester et al.

Phys. Rev. E 114, L023201 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

#TechnicalAdvancement #TimelyTopic

LETTER

Magnetic compression and a kinematic signature of surface melting in current-driven metal loads

A. W. Klemmer, S. E. Kreher, T. M. Hutchinson, E. P. Yu, T. J. Awe, C. L. Rousculp, D. H. Dolan, B. T. Hutsel, K. C. Yates, K. J. Swanson, J. J. Iratcabal, A. Dahal, and B. S. Bauer

Phys. Rev. E 114, L023202 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Mechanics, Interfaces, and Films

LETTER

Beyond capillary condensation: Shear-induced bridging transitions in patterned slits

Alexandr Malijevský, Andrew O. Parry, and Jiří Janek

Phys. Rev. E 114, L023501 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Phase-space networks and connectivity of the kagome antiferromagnet

Brandon B. Le, Seung-Hun Lee, and Gia-Wei Chern

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024101 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Far tails of the biased continuous-time random-walk model in the short-time limit

Wanli Wang, Kaixin Zhang, and Yuda Cheng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024102 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Robustness of surface edge states in the presence of weak, localized disorder

Josselin Garnier and Basant Lal Sharma

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024103 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonreciprocal dynamics with weak noise: Aperiodic “Escher cycles” and their quasipotential landscape

Janik Schüttler, Robert L. Jack, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024104 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

#TechnicalAdvancement #AdvancingField

Semi-Markovian switching in a fluctuating harmonic trap: An age-structured formulation

Derek Frydel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024105 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Condition for $1 / f$ noise to occur along with an example for a diffusion equation

Hideaki Mouri

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024106 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Collective communication in a transparent world: Phase transitions in a many-body Potts model and a social-quantum correspondence

Pawat Akara-pipattana, Sergei Nechaev, and Bogdan Slavov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024107 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Analytical approach to subsystem resetting in generalized Kuramoto models

Rupak Majumder, Anish Acharya, and Shamik Gupta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024108 (2026) - Published 5 August, 2026

Hydrodynamic description of collisional odd fluids from kinetic theory

Ege Eren, Michel Fruchart, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024109 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

First-passage time in space-dependent stochastic resetting

Johannes Aspman, Daniel Mastropietro, and Jakub Mareček

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024110 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Quantifying influence and information transfer in a modified Vicsek model with nonreciprocal interactions

Jiahuan Pang and Wendong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024111 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Thermodynamic phase transitions in lattice spin systems with severe kinetic constraints: Numerical simulation results

Ruifeng Liu, Jianwen Zhou, Yejia Chen, Jiahang Chen, and Hai-Jun Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024112 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Generalized Biswas-Chatterjee-Sen model with group interactions: Shift in the critical point and mean-field Ising universality

Amit Pradhan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024113 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Crossover and universality breaking in the dilute Baxter-Wu model

Dimitrios Mataragkas, Alexandros Vasilopoulos, Dong-Hee Kim, and Nikolaos G. Fytas

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024114 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Burgers equation from nonthermal stationary states in nearly integrable gases

Paweł Lisiak, Maciej Łebek, and Miłosz Panfil

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024115 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Directed polymer transfer matrices as a unified generator of distinct one-point fluctuation laws

Sen Mu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Roderich Moessner, and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024116 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

First-hitting location laws as boundary observables of drift-diffusion processes

Yen-Chi Lee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024117 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Geometry-driven thermodynamic anomaly in overdamped Langevin dynamics

Sehyeok Lee and Min Soo Kim

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024118 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Sokoban random walk: A trapping perspective

Prashant Singh, Eli Barkai, and David A. Kessler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024119 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Optimal transition path time of run-and-tumble particles with stochastic resetting

Hua Li, Zhanqing Wang, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024120 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Eigenstate condensation in quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces

Christopher David White, Michael Winer, and Noam Bernstein

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024121 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Monotonicity of eigenstate thermalization hypothesis in two-dimensional systems

Nilakash Sorokhaibam and Anjan Daimari

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024122 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Solving models with generalized free fermions: Algebras and eigenstates

Kohei Fukai, Balázs Pozsgay, and István Vona

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024124 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Hybrid quantum-classical dynamics with stationary thermal states

Adrián A. Budini

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024125 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Effective classical potential for quantum statistical averages

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Stuart C. Althorpe, and Venkat Kapil

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024126 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Conformal invariance of the large- $N$ limit of the $O (N)$ universality class

Santiago Cabrera, Gonzalo De Polsi, Adam Rançon, and Nicolás Wschebor

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024127 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Dephasing-induced relaxation in tight-binding chains with linear and nonlinear defects

Debraj Das, Andrea Gambassi, Stefano Iubini, and Stefano Lepri

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024128 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Framework for fluctuating times and counting observables in stochastic excursions

Guilherme Fiusa, Pedro E. Harunari, Abhaya S. Hegde, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024129 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Quantum statistical mechanics: Gauge invariance, operator shifting, hyperdensity functionals, and nonequilibrium sum rules

Johanna Müller and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024130 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Quantum percolation in honeycomb lattices under random spin-orbit coupling

W. S. Oliveira, Julián Faúndez, and Welles Morgado

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024131 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Quantum fluctuation-response inequality and its application in quantum hypothesis testing

Yan Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024132 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Families of planar lattices with arbitrarily high $T_{c}$ for the ferromagnetic Ising model

Davidson Noby Joseph, Connor M. Walsh, and Igor Boettcher

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024133 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Critical scaling and supercritical coarsening in active model $B +$

Abir Bhowmick and P. K. Mohanty

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024134 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Extreme values of infinite-measure processes

Talia Baravi and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024135 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Ziff-Gulari-Barshad model with reactive sulfur: Mean field approximation and Monte Carlo simulations

Marcelo Freitas de Andrade and Mauricio Girardi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024136 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Extended model of noninteger-dimensional space for anisotropic solids with $q$ -deformed derivatives

José Weberszpil and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024137 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Critical properties of strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic multilayers with dipolar interactions

P. S. Pagliaro, G. P. Saracco, and M. A. Bab

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024138 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Elastic and spinodal instabilities in strained periodic states: A phase-field-crystal study

K. R. Elder, Brendan Aaron, Vidar Skogvoll, and Luiza Angheluta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024139 (2026) - Published 20 August, 2026

Synchronized stress oscillations in depinning models with aging

F. V. Pereyra Aponte and E. A. Jagla

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024140 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Statistical-gauge covariance in open quantum systems

Hai Pham-Van

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024141 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Random matrix theory universality of current operators in spin- $S$ Heisenberg chains

Mariel Kempa, Markus Kraft, Robin Steinigeweg, Jochen Gemmer, and Jiaozi Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024142 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Memory-induced active particle ratchets: Mean currents and large deviations

Venkata D. Pamulaparthy and Rosemary J. Harris

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024143 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Information processing in quantum thermodynamic systems: An autonomous Hamiltonian approach

Shou-I Tang, Emery Doucet, Akram Touil, Sebastian Deffner, and Akira Sone

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024144 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Moving cooling source–induced phase separation in binary liquids: An interplay of competing velocities

Lakshmi Priya K, Harssh Karn, and Sutapa Roy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024145 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Using operator covariance to disentangle scaling dimensions in lattice models

Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024146 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Directional information transfer between interacting Brownian particles

Tenta Tani

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024147 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Exact finite-time multispectral statistics from a single Brownian trajectory in a harmonic trap

Isaac Pérez Castillo, François Leyvraz, Miguel Eduardo Gómez Quintanar, and Andrés Álvarez Ballesteros

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024148 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Angular momentum of an unconfined charged Brownian particle in a static magnetic field within the framework of the generalized Langevin equation

Vladimír Lisý, Jana Tóthová, and Ján Buša

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024149 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Superdiffusion in stochastic processes with long-range memory

S. S. Melnyk, V. A. Yampol'skii, and O. V. Usatenko

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024150 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Banded non-Hermitian random matrices, neural networks, and eigenvalue degeneracies

Richard Huang and David R. Nelson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024151 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

General thermodynamic approach for diffusion on a lattice

M. A. Di Muro and M. Hoyuelos

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024152 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Strong violation of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation in a minimal autonomous heat engine

Enrique P. Cital and Viktor Holubec

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024153 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Thermal pseudotransitions in a frustrated spin-pseudospin sawtooth chain

Onofre Rojas and Jozef Strečka

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024154 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Crossover from generalized to conventional hydrodynamics in nearly integrable systems under relaxation time approximation

Saikat Santra, Maciej Łebek, and Miłosz Panfil

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024155 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Entropy of full covering of the kagome lattice by straight trimers

Deepak Dhar, Tiago J. Oliveira, R. Rajesh, and Jürgen F. Stilck

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024156 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Quantifying entanglement in quantum thermodynamics via separability constraints

Joan Alba, Laura Ares, Jan Sperling, and Julien Pinske

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024157 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Experimental evidence of double explosive synchronization in multilayer oscillator networks

Taniya Khatun, Md Sayeed Anwar, and P. Parmananda

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024201 (2026) - Published 5 August, 2026

From local payoffs to global instabilities: A spectral cartography of spatiotemporal chaos in canonical $2 \times 2$ evolutionary games

Ozgur Aydogmus

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024202 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Dynamic synchronization of driven self-oscillators: Modeling and experiment

Zhenwei Xu (徐振玮), Ulrich Kuhl, and Nicolas Noiray

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024203 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Crystal formation in systems of pseudoforced swarmalators

Brennan J. H. Hughes, Christoph Bruder, and Tobias Kehrer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024204 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Functorial invariants for chaos topology from data

Denisse Sciamarella

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024205 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Making rare events typical in $d$ -dimensional chaotic maps

Yllari K. González-Koda, Ricardo Gutiérrez, and Carlos Pérez-Espigares

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024207 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Coarsening dynamics of fingerprint labyrinthine patterns: Machine learning–assisted characterization

Supriyo Ghosh, Vinicius Yu Okubo, Kotaro Shimizu, B. S. Shivaram, Hae Yong Kim, and Gia-Wei Chern

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024208 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

Emergence of minimal chimera in uncoupled oscillators under common frequency-modulated driving: Theory and experiment

Debabrata Biswas and Tanmoy Banerjee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024209 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Escape over a saddle by colored noise: Theory and numerics

Jiayao Shao (邵家瑶), Tobias Grafke, and Robert S. MacKay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024210 (2026) - Published 12 August, 2026

A computational approach efficiently models rare transition events driven by complex noise. It predicts optimal transition paths and rate scaling laws across unbounded time horizons.

#TechnicalAdvancement

Asymmetric coherent clusters with microscopic nonstationarity in network of Stuart-Landau oscillators

Naveen Kumar Mendola, Awadhesh Prasad, and Thounaojam Umeshkanta Singh

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024211 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

$1 / f^{α}$ noise in spectral fluctuations of quantum nonchaotic billiards

T. Araújo Lima, R. B. do Carmo, K. Terto, and F. M. de Aguiar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024212 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Radiation damping of the soliton internal mode in one-dimensional quadratic Klein-Gordon equation

Piotr Bizoń and Tomasz Romańczukiewicz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024213 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Predicting oscillations in complex networks with delayed feedback

Shijie Liu, Jinliang Han, Jianming Liu, Tim Rogers, and Yongzheng Sun

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024214 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Constrained interactions and sublinear multifractality in multiscale systems

Madhur Mangalam and Damian G. Kelty-Stephen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024215 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Swarmalator networks with multihop coupling

Marcus Schref, Udo Schilcher, and Christian Bettstetter

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024216 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Varied dispersion relation branches of nondegenerate vector solitons

Yu-Hao Wang, Liang Duan, Yan-Hong Qin, and Li-Chen Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024217 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Diffusion model-based ensemble generation for highly nonlinear systems with limited ensemble size

Seoleun Shin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024218 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Slow-driving-induced multistability and remote synchronization in chaotic Chua's circuit

Tuhin Mahanty, Ayushi Saxena, and Sangeeta Rani Ujjwal

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024219 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Experimental verification of the optimal fingerprint method in a spin resonance system: Implications for complex systems

Jinbo Hu, Hong Yuan, Letian Chen, Nan Zhao, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024220 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Turbulentlike conductance fluctuations in the integer quantum Hall transition in graphene

Anderson L. R. Barbosa, Diego B. Fonseca, Iván R. R. González, Nathan L. Pessoa, Giovani L. Vasconcelos, and Antônio M. S. Macêdo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024221 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Non-normal route to chaos

D. Sornette, V. R. Saiprasad, and V. Troude

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024222 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Noise-controlled critical slowing down in forced neural and climate models

Dianavinnarasi Joseph, Mithun Kumar, Suresh Kumarasamy, and Alexander N. Pisarchik

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024223 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Non-normal dynamics on nonreciprocal networks: Reactivity and effective dimensionality in neural circuits

Anna Poggialini, Serena Di Santo, Pablo Villegas, Andrea Gabrielli, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024301 (2026) - Published 4 August, 2026

Relations between the inequality indices Gini, Pietra, and Kolkata: Theory and data analysis

Asim Ghosh and Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024302 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Activity feedback and hyperedge overlap shape bistability in higher-order networks

Tianyu Li, Yipeng Hu, Xuening Li, Xueqin Wang, Lijian Yang, and Ya Jia

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024303 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Unveiling the birth of explosive entrainment: A novel phenomenon triggered by higher-order interactions

Wenxin Zheng, Yuxuan Song, and Changgui Gu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024304 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Effect of local topological changes on resistance in spatially embedded disordered networks

Chenxi Wang, Charles Emmett Maher, and Katherine A. Newhall

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024305 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Epidemic dynamics on temporal complex networks

Ziting Luo, Chengzuo Zhuge, and Wei Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024306 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Robustness of small networks

Jessica Jiang, Allison C. Zhuang, Petter Holme, Peter J. Mucha, and Alice C. Schwarze

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024307 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Bayesian approach for the network reconstruction of interdependent critical infrastructure systems from cascading failures

MirSaleh Bahavarnia, Yu Wang, Jin-Zhu Yu, and Hiba Baroud

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024308 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Network-based drug repurposing for MYH9-related nephritis

Muhammad Ali, Tommaso Gili, and Guido Caldarelli

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024309 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Extremal spectral properties of random graphs

C. T. Martínez-Martínez and J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024310 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large-scale portfolio optimization with variational neural annealing

Nishan Ranabhat, Behnam Javanparast, David Goerz, and Estelle Inack

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024311 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

#Interdisciplinary #UniversalBehavior

Coarsening in the long-range persistent voter model

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

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024312 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Identifying maximal sets of significantly interacting nodes in higher-order networks

Lorenzo Betti, Federico Musciotto, Federico Battiston, and Rosario N. Mantegna

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024313 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Large deviation properties of minimum spanning trees for random graphs

Mahdi Sarikhani and Alexander K. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024314 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Role of volatility mixing in wealth condensation transition

Jaeseok Hur, Meesoon Ha, and Hawoong Jeong

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024315 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Biological Physics

Lag-induced critical transitions to extinction in replicating systems: the $τ$ -tipping mechanism

Edward A. Turner, Francisco Crespo, Joan Gimeno, Ernest Fontich, Santiago F. Elena, and Josep Sardanyés

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024401 (2026) - Published 5 August, 2026

Cross-scale echoes of ultrafast oscillations in the human brain

Erik D. Fagerholm, Vojtech Travnicek, Luis F. Sarmiento, Gregory A. Worrell, Michal Kucewicz, and Milan Brázdil

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024402 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Arousal tunes neuronal avalanches across a directed percolation critical point

Brandon R. Munn, Christopher Whyte, Eli J. Müller, and James M. Shine

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024403 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #TimelyTopic

Polynomial smoothing and curvature estimation of noisy biological surfaces with application to aortic morphology

Joseph A. Pugar, Efi Efrati, and Luka Pocivavsek

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024404 (2026) - Published 20 August, 2026

Mean-field analysis of a neural network with stochastic spike-timing-dependent plasticity

Pascal Helson, Etienne Tanré, and Romain Veltz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024405 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Computational modeling of cell spreading dynamics on micropatterned substrates: From geometric constraints to mechanistic insights

Ting Ye, Huen Li, Ziwei Zhu, Bei Chang, and Hongchen Sun

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024406 (2026) - Published 19 August, 2026

Junctional-fluctuation-mediated fluidization of multi-phase-field epithelial monolayers

James N. Graham and Jan Rozman

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024407 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Complexity and dynamics of partially symmetric random neural networks

Nimrod Sherf, Si Tang, Dylan Hafner, Jonathan D. Touboul, Xaq Pitkow, Kevin E. Bassler, and Krešimir Josić

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024408 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Traveling fronts in a generalized neural field model that couples to the extracellular space

Oliver Cattell, Reuben D. O'Dea, and Stephen Coombes

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024409 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Turning without fins: Quantifying the distinct kinematics and vortex dynamics of maneuvering swimming snakes

Elizabeth Gregorio, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, and Anthony Herrel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 024410 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Spatiotemporal dynamics of surfactant-driven secondary invasion in Gaussian pore networks

Debanik Bhattacharjee, Guy Z. Ramon, and Yaniv Edery

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025101 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Tensor invariant approach to energy flux in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Conan M. Liptrott, Sandra C. Chapman, Bogdan Hnat, and Nicholas W. Watkins

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025102 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Contaminant transport in channel flow with laterally asymmetric velocity distribution and adsorption-desorption dynamics

Radha S, Swarup Barik, and Sourav Hossain

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025103 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Mesoscale model of a three-dimensional odd fluid

Yuxing Jiao and Mingcheng Yang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025104 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Continuous family of point vortex lattice equilibria in doubly periodic rectangular domains with a Liouville-type background vorticity

Vikas S. Krishnamurthy and Takashi Sakajo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025105 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Partial derivatives of acoustic radiation force and dynamic equilibrium stability of acoustophoresis

Tianquan Tang, Mengjie Wu, and Lixi Huang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025106 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Supersonic and superluminal energy and speed of information via temporal interference in a dispersionless environment

John L. Spiesberger and Eugene Terray

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025107 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

A theory inspired by whale tracking suggests that interference could make the peak of a light-wave packet appear to travel faster than light—without transmitting information superluminally.

Quasiperiodic instabilities and their exchange of criticality with harmonic and subharmonic modes in temperature-modulated Rayleigh-Benard convection

Mehdi Riahi and Mohamed Hayani Choujaa

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025108 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

From Colebrook-White roughness to Nikuradse sand grains: A multiscale momentum-transfer model for turbulent friction over rough surfaces

Chien-Chia Liu and Jui-Yin Lin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025109 (2026) - Published 24 August, 2026

Plasma Physics

Molecular dynamics simulations of temperature relaxation in strongly magnetized, non-neutral, equal-density two-component plasmas

James C. Welch, III, Louis Jose, Timothy D. Tharp, and Scott D. Baalrud

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025201 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Efficient computation of stellarator coils with an augmented Lagrangian optimization method

Pedro F. Gil, Weiping Li, Julianne Stratton, Alan A. Kaptanoglu, and Eve V. Stenson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025202 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Low-frequency breathing instabilities induced by intense plasma-gas heating

Ash Pascale, Cormac Corr, Landry Riou, and Trevor Lafleur

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025203 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Tracking electron capture process in classical molecular dynamics simulations for spectral line broadening in plasmas

D. González-Herrero, G. Pérez-Callejo, R. Florido, and M. A. Gigosos

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025204 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Grain boundary diffusion in Yukawa crystals

Matthew E. Caplan, Nevin T. Smith, Dany Yaacoub, Roberto F. Serrano, Elias Taira, and Ashley Bransgrove

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025205 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

Conserved thermomechanic invariant in extended fluid description of collisionless plasmas

E. S. Uchava and A. G. Tevzadze

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025206 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

High-harmonic optical vortex generation from a plasma aperture

Runze Li, Wenchao Yan, and Longqing Yi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025207 (2026) - Published 18 August, 2026

Ionization-seeded current filamentation in expanding plasma sheaths

Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair, Yipeng Wu, Kenneth A. Marsh, Apurva Gaikwad, Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Marcus Babzien, William Li, Mikhail Polyanskiy, Igor Pogorelsky, Chaojie Zhang, and Chandrashekhar Joshi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025208 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Analytical theory of coherent radiation and radiation friction in laser-plasma collisions

E. G. Gelfer, A. M. Fedotov, M. P. Malakhov, Th. Benahmed, J. Custodio, O. Klimo, and S. Weber

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025209 (2026) - Published 27 August, 2026

Magnetic compression and solid-liquid phase transition of current-carrying conductors measured by photon Doppler velocimetry

A. W. Klemmer, S. E. Kreher, T. M. Hutchinson, E. P. Yu, T. J. Awe, C. L. Rousculp, D. H. Dolan, B. T. Hutsel, K. C. Yates, K. J. Swanson, J. J. Iratcabal, A. Dahal, and B. S. Bauer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025210 (2026) - Published 28 August, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Learning and extrapolating scale-invariant processes

Anaclara Alvez, Cyril Furtlehner, and François Landes

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025301 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Neural-network parametrization of fundamental measure theory: From hard spheres to Lennard-Jones fluids

Conrard Giresse Tetsassi Feugmo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025302 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Multiagent design assistant for the simulation of inertial fusion energy

Meir H. Shachar, M. Giselle Fernández-Godino, Charles F. Jekel, Harshitha Menon, Dane M. Sterbentz, Yue Hao, Kevin A. Korner, Robert N. Rieben, Daniel A. White, Jonathan L. Belof, William J. Schill, Ismael D. Boureima, and Nathan K. Brown

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025303 (2026) - Published 21 August, 2026

Long-time integration of partial differential equations based on a sliding-interval physics-informed neural network

Wenlong Huang, Jie Shao, Mingwei Yang, Yue Ruan, Xu Fan, and Haolong Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025304 (2026) - Published 25 August, 2026

Polaritonic machine learning for graph-based data analysis

Yuan Wang, Stefano Scali, and Oleksandr Kyriienko

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025305 (2026) - Published 26 August, 2026

Performance evaluation of variational quantum eigensolver and quantum dynamics algorithms on the advection-diffusion equation

A. Barış Özgüler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025306 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Lattice Boltzmann fractional advection scheme for achieving minimal numerical viscosity

Junye Wang, Raoyang Zhang, and Hudong Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025307 (2026) - Published 31 August, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Phonon echo from multilevel systems and many-body interactions in low-temperature glasses

Di Zhou

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025401 (2026) - Published 3 August, 2026

Dynamic coupling in binary mixtures of charged colloids: A rescaled mode-coupling theory approach

Daniel Weidig and Joachim Wagner

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025402 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Fundamental scaling constraints for equilibrium molecular computing

Erin Crawley, Qian-Ze Zhu, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025403 (2026) - Published 6 August, 2026

Preserving elastic anisotropy with tessellations of granular packings

Annie Z. Xia, Dong Wang, Catherine La Riviere, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Mark D. Shattuck, and Corey S. O'Hern

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025404 (2026) - Published 7 August, 2026

Programmable collective motion of polar solitons in chiral liquid crystals

Xing-Zhou Tang, Yang Ding, Jia-Hao Chen, Zi-Ye Wang, Jin-Bing Wu, Susanta Chakraborty, Yan-Qing Lu, and Bing-Xiang Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025405 (2026) - Published 10 August, 2026

Inverse engineering of optical constants in photochromic micron-scale hybrid films

Bahrem Serhat Danis, Amin Tabatabaei Mohseni, Smagul Karazhanov, and Esra Zayim

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025406 (2026) - Published 11 August, 2026

Wave-like statistics from classical active particles with internal degrees of freedom

Rahil N. Valani

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025407 (2026) - Published 13 August, 2026

Dynamics of a quasi-two-dimensional vibrated granular system of geometric solids

L. Palacios-Razo and F. Donado

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025408 (2026) - Published 14 August, 2026

Wrapping of adjacent nanoparticles with varying sizes and distances by membrane tethers possessing bilayer asymmetry

Jiaxiang Xue and Qingfen Yu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025409 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Towards probing velocity distributions in dense granular fluids: Utilizing fiber Bragg gratings

Marlo Kunzner, Luis Henriques, Fahad Puthalath, Leonardo Facchini, Mohammadhossein Shahsavari, Léa Gommeringer, Martin Angelmahr, Peidong Yu, Matthias Sperl, Till Böhmer, and Jan Philipp Gabriel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 025410 (2026) - Published 17 August, 2026

#ClearMotivation #TechnicalAdvancement