Volume 114, Issue 4

October 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

It takes two to tribo: Stochastic charge evolution in repeated binary collisions of acoustically levitated particles

Tom F. O'Hara, Adrian C. Barnes, James W. E. Drewitt, Nathan Croll Dawes, and Karen L. Aplin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045409 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Despite many models proposed to explain charging behavior between insulating particles, the mechanisms underlying triboelectric charging have remained an open question in nonequilibrium physics. This manuscript presents a new experimental method to measure charge transfer during collisions between individual pairs of levitated particles, showing that charge evolution saturates as predicted by the condenser model.

#AdvancingField #TimelyTopic #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase transitions in a $p$ -spin glass model: A numerical study

Prerak Gupta, Auditya Sharma, Bharadwaj Vedula, J. Yeo, and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044116 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations of $p$ -spin glass models show no evidence of replica symmetry breaking, suggesting that three-dimensional structural glasses lack a finite-temperature thermodynamic phase transition.

#OpenDebate #ClassicProblem #WellStructured

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical and tricritical transitions in diffusion with stochastic resetting on a ring

Pedro Julián-Salgado, Pavel Castro-Villarreal, Leonardo Dagdug, and Denis Boyer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044142 (2026) - Published 30 October, 2026

Diffusion with a resetting mechanism provides a framework for modeling a wide range of natural phenomena. This work investigates the influence of stochastic resetting on diffusion of a Brownian particle in a closed domain with a trap. The authors focus on the average mean first passage time as a function of resetting rate. They find that a closed domain can produce unexpected results. The optimal resetting rate can vary abruptly or continuously, for example, depending upon parameters.

#TimelyTopic #ElegantVisuals

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analytical ansatz for the first wave of COVID-19

Michal Strelniker, Yakov M. Strelniker, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044318 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

A simple three-parameter analytical model uses a phenomenologically motivated ansatz to describe the peak, duration, and temporal evolution of a single epidemic wave.

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Restoring information in aged gene regulatory networks by single knock-ins

Ryan LeFebre, Tyler Schutt, Fabrisia Ambrosio, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044401 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Recent analyses have demonstrated that aging is associated with a loss of information within gene regulatory networks. In this article, a simple theoretical framework is developed for information transmission in gene regulatory networks and this framework is applied to gene expression data from muscle cells in young and old mice. The authors predict how much of the lost information is restored by “knocking in” (exogenously expressing) each gene and find that single knock-ins can restore network information by up to 10%.

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClearMotivation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental study of the impact of ion wakes on the charges and dynamics of dust particles in a binary complex plasma

Roman A. Syrovatka, Vadim N. Naumkin, Andrey M. Lipaev, Alexandr D. Usachev, Mikhail M. Vasiliev, Oleg F. Petrov, and Andrey V. Zobnin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045207 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Interactions in a plasma between microparticles of two different diameters are investigated. In these experiments, the smaller microparticles form a layer above the larger microparticles in the plasma sheath, and three-dimensional trajectories are determined from videos. The authors deduce ion-wake forces and microparticle charges from the measured oscillation frequencies.

#WellStructured

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

History state formalism for time series with application to finance

F. Lomoc, N. Canosa, A. P. Boette, and R. Rossignoli

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045303 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

By embedding temporal data into quantum coherent states, researchers use system-time entanglement entropy to map dynamical regimes and quantify financial volatility.

#Interdisciplinary

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid

Aitor Erkoreka, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero, Luka Cmok, Ema Hanžel, Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Richard J. Mandle, Nerea Sebastián, and Alenka Mertelj

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045407 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

Pretransitional fluctuations show that flexoelectric coupling between polarization and molecular shape drives achiral fluids to spontaneously form chiral heliconical structures through polar biaxial ordering.

#ElegantVisuals #TheoryExperiment #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Connectivity, rigidity, and gelation in linker-mediated colloidal networks

Taejin Kwon, Murari Singh, Javier Alejandro Sanchez-Gallegos, Román Perdomo-Pérez, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, and Thomas M. Truskett

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045408 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Using molecular dynamics simulations, the authors explore gelation in colloids tied together by reversible linkers. They find that different connectivity measures govern ordinary percolation, rigidity percolation, and rheological gelation.

#AdvancingField #WellStructured #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological defects in buckled colloidal monolayers

Aaron L. Galper, Henrik N. Barck, Conor M. Floyd, Elliot A. Snyder, Charlie J. Schofield, Sorin A. P. Jayaweera, Ian G. McGuire, and Sharon J. Gerbode

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045417 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

When colloidal particles in single layer have some space to move up or down, they can form a buckled crystal. Two kinds of translational order, a nearly triangular lattice and a frustrated pattern of up and down particles, have defects whose interaction affects the evolution of the system.

#SoftMatterSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

PERSPECTIVES

PERSPECTIVE

Three-dimensional microprinting anisotropic and deformable active matter

Mengshi Wei and Daniela J. Kraft

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041001 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

3D microprinting provides unprecedented control over the shape, propulsion direction, and mechanical properties of active colloids and microstructures. This Perspective explores how anisotropy and deformability can enrich their (non)equilibrium dynamics and collective behavior, and open pathways towards programmable active materials and autonomous microrobots.

PERSPECTIVE

Measuring physical entropy out of equilibrium

Haim Diamant and Gil Ariel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041002 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Measuring entropy in nonequilibrium physical systems poses challenges that go far beyond conventional entropy estimation. Recent physics-informed approaches are overcoming these challenges and providing new ways to detect and understand nonequilibrium transitions in systems ranging from jammed packings to swarming bacteria.

PERSPECTIVE

Fluid-structure interactions driven by thermal convection

Jinzi Mac Huang, Jin-Qiang Zhong, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041003 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Thermal convection brings fluid motion to every dimension of our planet, Through lab-scale experiments, numerical simulations, and physics-informed models, new perspectives on thermally convective fluid-structure interactions emerge.

PERSPECTIVE

Perspective on physical systems with a purpose: Using tunable degrees of freedom to enable function

M. Lisa Manning

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041004 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

By adjusting internal parameters, both living organisms and synthetic materials can optimize their behavior to execute complex tasks. This Perspective explores the physical algorithms driving “tunable matter” to learn or perform tasks and also outlines open questions for researchers in this interdisciplinary field.

PERSPECTIVE

Microfluidic oscillatory rheology of transported soft particles

Matteo Milani, Joshua D. McGraw, Anke Lindner, and Stefano Aime

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041005 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Shape-optimized microfluidic channels enable high-throughput characterization of microscopic soft matter, providing precise spatiotemporal stress fields to bridge bulk mechanical measurements and single-particle dynamics.

PERSPECTIVE

Tipping points of the ocean oxygen: A dynamical systems perspective

Amer Alsulami and Sergei Petrovskii

Phys. Rev. E 114, 041006 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Ocean oxygen as a potential Earth tipping element has been largely overlooked in the literature. This Perspective argues that a dynamical systems approach complemented with a mathematical model accounting for the oxygen production by phytoplankton photosynthesis can provide a valuable insight into this issue.

LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Thermodynamic signatures of spectral compression in weakly non-Hermitian Dirac fermions

Juan Pablo Esparza, Francisco J. Peña, Patricio Vargas, and Vladimir Juričić

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042101 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

LETTER

Collective dynamics of trail-interacting particles

Paul Pineau, Samuel Bell, Raphaël Voituriez, and Ram M. Adar

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042102 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

LETTER

Exact criteria for ground-state overlap dominance and dynamical quantum phase transitions

Taisanul Haque

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042103 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

LETTER

Localization of active particles on random arrays of parallel filaments

Owen Santoso and Elena F. Koslover

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042104 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

LETTER

Analytical solution for mean-field theories for homo- and heterogeneous populations of parabolic bursting systems

Maria V. Ageeva and Denis S. Goldobin

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042105 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

LETTER

Optimal active engines obey the thermodynamic Lorentz force law

Adrianne Zhong, Adam G. Frim, and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042106 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

LETTER

Mean-field convective phase separation under thermal gradients

Meander Van den Brande, François Huveneers, and Kyosuke Adachi

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042107 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

LETTER

Exact generalized Langevin dynamics of pair coordinates in elastic networks

Shunsuke Ando, Tomoya Urashita, Soya Shinkai, and Tomoshige Miyaguchi

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042108 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

LETTER

Geometric formulation of state-dependent Langevin dynamics using scalar free energy

Kento Yasuda, Zhongqiang Xiong, Zhanglin Hou, Kenta Ishimoto, Xinpeng Xu, and Shigeyuki Komura

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042109 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

LETTER

Finite-size corrections to the crosscap overlap in the two-dimensional Ising model

Yiteng Zhang, Li-Ping Yang, Hong-Hao Tu, and Yueshui Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042110 (2026) - Published 27 October, 2026

LETTER

Boundary-driven anisotropic coarsening in conserved phase separation

Emilio N. M. Cirillo, Nicklas Jävergård, Adrian Muntean, and Stela Andrea Muntean

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042111 (2026) - Published 27 October, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

LETTER

Cubic discriminant as an organizing principle for Duffing dynamics

Patrycja Jaros and Przemyslaw Perlikowski

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042201 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Directed extended-range percolation

Wenbo Liu, Yiwen Zeng, Xueming Liu, and Ginestra Bianconi

Phys. Rev. E 114, L042301 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Geometry-induced shifts in dielectric-loss peaks of amorphous ices

Kaito Sasaki and Yoshiharu Suzuki

Phys. Rev. E 114, L043402 (2026) - Published 28 October, 2026

Mechanics, Interfaces, and Films

LETTER

Falling chains

Jean-Christophe Géminard and Nicolas Taberlet

Phys. Rev. E 114, L043501 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Interfacial thermal transport in extended atomic heterojunctions: Ballistic thermal conductance and correlated disorder

I. F. Herrera-González

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044101 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Graphon spin systems as exactly solvable models

Artem Alexandrov and Georgi S. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044102 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Role of system-bath interaction in non-Markovian quantum Brownian Otto cycles

Haena Shim and Joonhyun Yeo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044103 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Network analysis for steady-state current fluctuations under finite affinity: Application to Brownian computation

Yasuhiro Utsumi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044104 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Diffusion with stochastic resetting in the presence of a delta killing trap: Drift-controlled survival regimes

A. Mazzolo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044105 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Flowing to normality and the fate of the single ring theorem

Joshua Feinberg, Roman Riser, Richard Scalettar, and A. Zee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044106 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Lee-Yang property of the Blume-Capel model

Yuri Kozitsky and Yurij Holovatch

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044107 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Excitation spectrum and mean energy of thermal fluctuations of a simple fluid in the Maxwell generalized hydrodynamics model

E. V. Usov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044108 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Clustering in atom probe tomography data: Coordination number metric, percolation-based parameter scaling, and size effects

Mykola Lazarev and John Banhart

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044109 (2026) - Published 6 October, 2026

Scrambling without chaos in random free-fermionic systems

Ali Mollabashi and Mohammad-Javad Vasli

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044110 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Glass and jamming transitions in a random organization model

Leonardo Galliano and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044111 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Confined kinetics and heterogeneous diffusion driven by fractional Gaussian noise: A path-integral approach

D. S. Quevedo, F. S. Abril-Bermudez, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044112 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Analytical phase kurtosis of the constant gradient spin echo

Teddy X. Cai, Nathan H. Williamson, and Peter J. Basser

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044113 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Interaction-range effects on criticality and supercritical thermodynamics in a hard-sphere fluid with Wolf attraction

José Torres-Arenas and José Pablo Cuevas Cázares

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044114 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Mesoscopic theory of flocking with alignment and antialignment copying

Chunming Zheng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044115 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase transitions in a $p$ -spin glass model: A numerical study

Prerak Gupta, Auditya Sharma, Bharadwaj Vedula, J. Yeo, and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044116 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

#OpenDebate #ClassicProblem #WellStructured

Complexity drives the symmetry breaking of temperature fluctuations

D. Rosales Herrera, M. Y. Gallegos Ruiz, A. Fernández Téllez, J. R. Alvarado García, and J. E. Ramírez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044117 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Continuous-time random walk with immobilization mechanism: Approach of non-normalized jump-length distribution

Yuxue Huang and Xudong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044118 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Dynamical equivalence for the caging-release colloidal problem

Ivany del Carmen Romero-Sánchez, Leonardo Dagdug, and Erick Sarmiento-Gómez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044119 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

First-passage times for variable-order time-fractional diffusion

Wancheng Li and Daniel S. Han

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044120 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Thermoelectric information engine driven by an autonomous Maxwell demon across quantum-to-classical transitions

M. Bernal-Santibañez, José Mondaca, and Felipe Barra

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044121 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation theorem driven by a time-dependent electric field

K. S. Rodríguez-Vigil, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, and J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044122 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Percolation in the three-dimensional Ising model

Jinhong Zhu, Tao Chen, Zhiyi Li, Sheng Fang, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044123 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Full eigenstate thermalization in integrable spin systems

Tanay Pathak

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044124 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Variational formulation of stochastic thermodynamics: Spatially extended systems

Héctor Vaquero del Pino, François Gay-Balmaz, Hiroaki Yoshimura, and Lock Yue Chew

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044125 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Two-dimensional anomalous diffusion of coupled active-passive particles in viscoelastic media

Pankaj Jangid and Srabanti Chaudhury

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044126 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Reentrance and temperature chaos in the $p$ -spin Ising spin glass

Hidetoshi Nishimori

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044127 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Critical temperature of the one-dimensional Ising model with inverse-square interactions

Owen Tower, Abdulai Gassama, Jonah Eick, Han Zhang, Lijie Ding, Jan Tobochnik, Robert A. Pelcovits, J. Michael Kosterlitz, and Xinsheng Sean Ling

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044128 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Information-energy tradeoffs in an escape-rate population model

Nalin Dhiman and Siddharth Panwar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044129 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Chladni states in Ising spin lattices

Giulio Iannelli and Pablo Villegas

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044130 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Purification of a monitored qubit: Exact path-integral solution

Matheus M. R. Poltronieri Martins and Henrique Santos Lima

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044131 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Mean maximum of fractional Brownian motion

Safari Mukeru and Mmboniseni P. Mulaudzi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044132 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Quantifying translational and bond-orientational order metrics in hyperuniform and nonhyperuniform many-particle systems

Anirban Mukherjee and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044133 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Collective enhancement of low-order eigenmicrostates underlying heat-current reversal in periodically driven Frenkel-Kontorova lattices

Yingying Zhang, Kezhao Xiong, Zhuohan Wang, Tengteng He, Wei Liu, and Li Ma

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044134 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Empirical study of bidirectional pedestrian flow in angled corridors: Effects of flow ratio and geometry

Weiying Chen, Rui Wang, Junheng Yang, Xiaodong Zang, and Qiang Luo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044135 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Maximization of nuclear fusion reactivity via optimal energy distributions

Roberto Onofrio, Kamel Ourabah, and Carlo Presilla

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044136 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Experimental investigation of Lévy flights for step-length distributions with a length-dependent local power exponent

Isaac C. Nunes, Jesús P. López, and Thierry Passerat de Silans

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044137 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Persistence properties of a phase-ordering system with competing dynamics

Shubham Thwal and Suman Majumder

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044138 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Nonlinear Brownian motions in gases: Kinetic equations and relaxation processes

Leonardo Ferrari

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044139 (2026) - Published 27 October, 2026

High resolution study of the two-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model using a two-replica cluster algorithm and population annealing

Shane Keiser and Jonathan Machta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044140 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

Pointwise mutual information bounded by stochastic Fisher information

Pedro B. Melo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044141 (2026) - Published 30 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Critical and tricritical transitions in diffusion with stochastic resetting on a ring

Pedro Julián-Salgado, Pavel Castro-Villarreal, Leonardo Dagdug, and Denis Boyer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044142 (2026) - Published 30 October, 2026

#TimelyTopic #ElegantVisuals

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Weakly nonlinear dynamics of follower-force-induced oscillations in Cosserat rods

Mohamed Warda

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044201 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Phyllotactic order from radial growth of spatial symmetry-breaking instabilities in supercritical conditions

Marcello A. Budroni, Giulio Facchini, Fabian Brau, and Anne De Wit

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044202 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Competition between nonlinearity and inhomogeneities in discrete-time quantum walks

N. Amaral, A. R. C. Buarque, and W. S. Dias

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044203 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Mechanisms for extreme events in position-dependent mass systems

M. Wasif Ahamed, V. Chithiika Ruby, M. Sathish Aravindh, A. Venkatesan, and M. Lakshmanan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044204 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Critical-like growth in noncritical transitions: Linearized dynamics and epidemic applications

Joshua Looker, Kat S. Rock, and Louise Dyson

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044205 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Mixed eigenstates in spin-boson systems with one-photon and two-photon interactions

David Villaseñor and Marko Robnik

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044206 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Geometric and dynamical signatures of chaos in an effective beyond-Newtonian circular restricted three-body problem with rotating compact primaries

Yeasin Ali, Suparna Roychowdhury, Betti Hartmann, and Roopkatha Banerjee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044207 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Dynamic joint-moment closure for age-structured adaptive escape-rate neuron populations

Nalin Dhiman and Siddharth Panwar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044208 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Nonlinear wave propagation in one-dimensional polycatenated ring chains

Xiaoxiao Xiong, Reo Yanagi, Tingtao Zhou, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044209 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Time-domain transient growth in non-Hermitian cascaded $L C$ circuits

Liangliang Ye, Mingyong Ye, Xiang Chen, Gongwei Lin, and Xiumin Lin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044210 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Asymmetric cyclic interactions lead to stable mean-field equilibria while demographic noise induces sustained oscillations

A. L. L. Middleton, J. H. P. Dawes, A. A. Jarai, and K. M. Briggs

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044211 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Mixed-mode oscillations in a three-timescale model via folded-saddle canards and delayed Hopf bifurcations

Xinyi Lin, Jian Song, Na Zhao, and Shenquan Liu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044212 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Stochastic predator-prey oscillations with deterministic prey response

Lucas M. Brugevin and Damián H. Zanette

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044213 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Disorder-to-order transitions and hysteresis in directed ring networks of nonisochronous complex Ginzburg-Landau oscillators

Kumar Sourav, Naveen Kumar Mendola, Jung-Wan Ryu, Awadhesh Prasad, and Thounaojam Umeshkanta Singh

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044214 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Predictability of solitary decoherence events in a symmetrically equidistant chain of coupled Kuramoto oscillators

M. Elaeva, E. Blanter, M. Shnirman, and A. Shapoval

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044215 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Cluster-based feedback control of a noisy limit-cycle oscillator

Hiromi Kimishima, Bo Yin, Vikrant Gupta, and Larry K. B. Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044216 (2026) - Published 19 October, 2026

Kinetics and stability of transition waves in viscoelastic bistable lattices

P. Q. Li, C. Wu, K. F. Wang, and B. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044217 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Control of phase transition patterning in the wake of $A + B \to C$ reaction fronts

N. Maton, G. Facchini, and A. De Wit

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044218 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Emergence and coexistence of periodic and unstructured motion in future-avoiding random walks

A. Schmaus, K. Stiller, and N. Molkenthin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044219 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Using echo-state networks to reproduce rare events in chaotic systems

Anton Erofeev, Balasubramanya T. Nadiga, and Ilya Timofeyev

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044220 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Delay-controlled heterogeneous nucleation in adaptive dynamical networks

R. Anand, Jan Fialkowski, V. K. Chandrasekar, and R. Suresh

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044221 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Scaling laws for the spread of defection in evolutionary games on networks

M. Giles and P. K. Newton

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044301 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Coevolution of strategies and interactions in donation games on a square lattice

Balázs Király and György Szabó

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044302 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Higher-order orientational effects on geometric percolation in two-dimensional stick networks

Davide Grazioli, Angelo Simone, Aidan Durant, Avik P. Chatterjee, and Claudio Grimaldi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044303 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Susceptible-infectious-susceptible epidemics on temporal contact graphs with clique structure

Robin Persoons and Piet Van Mieghem

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044304 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Graphicality of power-law and double-power-law degree sequences

Pietro Valigi, M. Ángeles Serrano, Claudio Castellano, and Lorenzo Cirigliano

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044305 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Encounter times of random walkers with simultaneous resetting on networks

Cristian D. Suarez-Jimenez, Alejandro P. Riascos, and Denis Boyer

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044306 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Random walks across dimensions: Exploring simplicial complexes

Diego Febbe, Duccio Fanelli, and Timoteo Carletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044307 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Planned behavior, perceptual biases, and the dynamics of collective action

Rishi Dadlani, John S. McAlister, Alice C. Schwarze, Mari Kawakatsu, Sarah Iams, Tahra L. Eissa, and Nina H. Fefferman

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044308 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Reviving networked multidimensional dynamical systems

Nan Dong, An Zeng, and Honggang Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044309 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

Timescale-induced synchronization of contrarians in adaptive dynamical networks

Akash Yadav, V. K. Chandrasekar, and D. V. Senthilkumar

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044310 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Equivalence between nonlinear graph-based dynamics and linear dynamics on higher-order networks

Lucas Lacasa

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044311 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Local network evolution rules driving shortest path multiplicity

Alexei Vazquez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044312 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Modularity, asymmetry, and polarization shape consensus speed in the voter model

Madi Yerlanov, Zachary P. Kilpatrick, and Nancy Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044313 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Heuristic and exact modularity optimization with size-constrained communities

Filipi N. Silva, Samin Aref, Vincent Traag, and Santo Fortunato

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044314 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Resilience of hypernetworks under the impact of tolerance thresholds

Ruijin Du, Yibo Ding, Yiwei Ren, Duxin Chen, Fan Wang, Renaud Lambiotte, and Gaogao Dong

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044315 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Gate control improves routing efficiency for periodic traffic

Hyunwook Song, Hoyun Choi, and B. Kahng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044316 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Convergence criteria for self-consistent measures in bipartite networks

János Török, Takashi Shimada, Fumiko Ogushi, Kata Tunyogi, János Kertész, and Kimmo Kaski

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044317 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analytical ansatz for the first wave of COVID-19

Michal Strelniker, Yakov M. Strelniker, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044318 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

A simple three-parameter analytical model uses a phenomenologically motivated ansatz to describe the peak, duration, and temporal evolution of a single epidemic wave.

#WellStructured #ClearMotivation

Learning and encoding temporally structured sensory inputs via superburst dynamics

Inhoi Jeong, Kyoung J. Lee, and Jongmu Kim

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044319 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Comparing different physics fields using statistical linguistics

María Fernanda Sánchez-Puig, Carlos Gershenson, and Carlos Pineda

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044320 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Minimal network of brain dynamics: Hierarchy of approximations to quasicritical neural network dynamics

Jeremy B. Goetz, Naruepon Weerawongphrom, Rashid V. Williams-García, John M. Beggs, and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044321 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Absorbing phase transition in a queueing model of coupled adaptive agents

Alexei Vazquez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044322 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Noise-controlled phase transitions and memory-state switching in connectome-informed modular spiking networks

Siyu Huo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044323 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Sandpile models on complex networks

Komlan Fiagbe, Jean-François de Kemmeter, and Timoteo Carletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044324 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Complex dynamics in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick game

Desmond Chan and Tobias Galla

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044325 (2026) - Published 28 October, 2026

Minimal representations of topology-preserving quantumlike states

William Horvat, Debadrita Saha, Nicolás Gigena, Prineha Narang, and Gregory D. Scholes

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044326 (2026) - Published 28 October, 2026

Constrained surrogates for arbitrary families of continuous probability distributions

Jack Murdoch Moore and Eduardo G. Altmann

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044327 (2026) - Published 28 October, 2026

Phase lags induce chaos in oscillator communities with higher-order interactions

Sabina Adhikari, Juan G. Restrepo, and Per Sebastian Skardal

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044328 (2026) - Published 30 October, 2026

Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Restoring information in aged gene regulatory networks by single knock-ins

Ryan LeFebre, Tyler Schutt, Fabrisia Ambrosio, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044401 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

#BiophysicsSpotlight #ClearMotivation

Visualization of the chromatin structure in intact nuclei of cancer cells using small-angle x-ray scattering

E. G. Iashina, S. V. Grigoriev, E. Y. Varfolomeeva, R. A. Pantina, N. D. Fedorova, R. A. Kovalev, A. A. Piryazev, and D. A. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044402 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Spontaneous formation of spiral wave reentry in inhomogeneous excitable media: Insights into arrhythmogenesis in long QT syndrome

Binxuan He, Xuemei Liu, Zhilin Qu, and Xiaodong Huang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044403 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Temporal spectroscopy of plant development reveals subcircadian response bands

Giovanni Santoro, Enrico Rolli, Ada Ricci, and Ludovico Cademartiri

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044404 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Multistage volume exclusion models for cell proliferation

John Carlo Dimaculangan, Cameron A. Smith, and Christian A. Yates

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044405 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Traveling chimeras and collective coordination in $β$ -cell networks

Carine Simo, Venceslas Nguefoue Meli, Patrick Louodop, Samuel Bowong, and Thierry Njougouo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044406 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Low-frequency oscillations as internal state integrators of a biosystem model with voltage-gated ion channels

Sergio Portillo, Javier Cervera, Patricio Ramirez, and Salvador Mafe

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044407 (2026) - Published 14 October, 2026

Evolutionary hysteresis: Cycling about in a rugged landscape

Luke Piszkin and Dervis Can Vural

Phys. Rev. E 114, 044408 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Numerical investigation of confined active collective motion in a viscoelastic fluid

Yateng Qiao, Dongxiao Zhao, Zijie Qu, and Gaojin Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045101 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Common explanation for coherent patterns in transitional and turbulent wall-bounded flows

Yuxin Jiao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045102 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

Eddy-viscosity-improved resolvent analysis of compressible turbulent channel flow

Deli Li, Guangrui Sun, Qiang Yang, Xu Zhang, and Jianqiang Chen

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045103 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Enhanced turbulent clustering of time-varying particles in random flow fields

Boaz Ofarim and Yuval Dagan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045104 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

Periodic modulation of the space-filling nature of the turbulent flame leads to periodic spiky heat release oscillations

Sivakumar Sudarsanan, Manikandan Raghunathan, Shwetha Viswesh, and R. I. Sujith

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045105 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Space-time correlations of passive scalars in colored-noise flows

Long Wang and Guowei He

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045106 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

Symmetries and equivalence transformations in linear stability theory and their implications for the dispersion relation

Kilian Vinzenz Wilhelm, Johannes Conrad, Martin Oberlack, and Yongqi Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045107 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

Plasma Physics

Improved nonlocal electron heat transport model for magnetized plasmas

Z. H. Chen, Z. Q. Zhao, X. H. Yang, L. R. Li, B. Zeng, Z. Li, B. H. Xu, G. B. Zhang, H. H. Ma, M. Tang, Y. Y. Ma, H. Xu, F. Q. Shao, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045201 (2026) - Published 1 October, 2026

Statistical analysis of speckle fields

Ian D. Min-Roberts, Wojciech Rozmus, and Pierre A. Michel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045202 (2026) - Published 2 October, 2026

Spatial evolution characteristics and mechanism analysis of induced magnetic fields in an applied field magnetoplasmadynamic discharge device

Lehui Cao, Haibin Tang, Junxue Ren, Zhiyuan Chen, Guangchuan Zhang, Yibai Wang, Yuzhe Sun, and Jinbin Cao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045203 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Control of filament distribution and enhancement of plasma properties in a dielectric barrier discharge using a metal lattice sheet

Lifang Dong, Cheng Li, Xiaoxiu Qi, Yunan He, Yaohua Li, and Yuyang Pan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045204 (2026) - Published 9 October, 2026

Experimental realization of a dusty plasma rocking ratchet with current reversal

Shun-xin Zhang, Shuo Wang, Ting-yu Yao, Yong-liang Zhang, Bao-quan Ai, and Ya-feng He

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045205 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Path-integrated electrostatic energization in laser-driven collisionless cylindrical convergence

D. Pan, M. Murakami, S. Fujioka, and H. Nagatomo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045206 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental study of the impact of ion wakes on the charges and dynamics of dust particles in a binary complex plasma

Roman A. Syrovatka, Vadim N. Naumkin, Andrey M. Lipaev, Alexandr D. Usachev, Mikhail M. Vasiliev, Oleg F. Petrov, and Andrey V. Zobnin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045207 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

#WellStructured

Ionization-induced chirping and compression of a high-power microwave pulse. I. Experiments with a subnanosecond, 600-MW, 9.6-GHz microwave pulse propagating in a gas-filled waveguide

A. Haim, V. Maksimov, J. G. Leopold, Y. P. Bliokh, and Ya. E. Krasik

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045208 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Ionization-induced chirping and compression of a high-power microwave pulse. II. Theoretical analysis and numerical simulations

Adi Haim, Vlad Maksimov, John G. Leopold, Yuriy P. Bliokh, and Yakov E. Krasik

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045209 (2026) - Published 20 October, 2026

Plasma density manipulation in staged discharge capillaries for plasma-based accelerators

Angelo Biagioni, Lucio Crincoli, Romain Demitra, Mario Galletti, Valerio Lollo, Donato Pellegrini, Riccardo Pompili, Massimo Ferrario, and Arie Zigler

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045210 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

Experimental observation of drift acoustic cnoidal waves in a magnetized plasma

Tanmay Karmakar, Rosh Roy, Lavkesh Lachhvani, Raju Daniel, Bhoomi Khodiyar, Prabal K. Chattopadhyay, Abhijit Sen, and Sayak Bose

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045211 (2026) - Published 26 October, 2026

Generalized multidimensional conservation laws for stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering in a density gradient

Vijay Patel, Sarah Chase, Frank S. Tsung, John P. Palastro, Denise E. Hinkel, and Warren B. Mori

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045212 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

Generalized Schamel nonlinear Schrödinger dynamics of ion-acoustic wave packets in electronegative plasmas with trapped negative ions

Chérif Souleman Panguetna, Conrad Bertrand Tabi, Stéphanie Ganyou, and Timoléon Crépin Kofané

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045213 (2026) - Published 28 October, 2026

Computational Physics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence

Towards critical branching mechanism in recurrent neural networks

Feixiang Ren and Ling Feng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045301 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Dimensional formulation for the pseudopotential lattice Boltzmann method

Luiz Eduardo Czelusniak, Ivan Talão Martins, and Luben Cabezas Gómez

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045302 (2026) - Published 7 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

History state formalism for time series with application to finance

F. Lomoc, N. Canosa, A. P. Boette, and R. Rossignoli

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045303 (2026) - Published 8 October, 2026

By embedding temporal data into quantum coherent states, researchers use system-time entanglement entropy to map dynamical regimes and quantify financial volatility.

#Interdisciplinary

Numerical approximation of the Koopman-von Neumann equation: Operator learning and quantum computing

Stefan Klus, Feliks Nüske, and Patrick Gelß

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045304 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Beyond gradient descent: Adam for analog Ising machines

Stijn Van Vooren, Guy Van der Sande, and Guy Verschaffelt

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045305 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026

Expressivity of quantum graph neural networks with variable-dimension edge qudits

Piero Araujo R.

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045306 (2026) - Published 27 October, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

Hyperelastic theory for nonlinear hydrogel diffusiophoresis

Chinmay Katke and C. Nadir Kaplan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045401 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Nonmonotonic response of polyelectrolyte brushes to monomer effective charge and trivalent cation size

Ming-Lu Chao, Qing-Hai Hao, Hong-Yan Zhang, and Hong-Ge Tan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045402 (2026) - Published 5 October, 2026

Noise-induced bistability of information-driven active agents in turbulence

Chenfeng Ma and Yan Cui

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045403 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Stochastic model of elongation-shortening-switching kinetics of a polymeric filament: Critical slowing down of first-passage and finite-size regularization

Manvendra Singh, Ashok Garai, and Debashish Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045404 (2026) - Published 16 October, 2026

Dynamic magnetic response of magnetic multicore particles: Competing anisotropies

Vladimir Zverev, Ekaterina Novak, Andrey A. Kuznetsov, and Sofia Kantorovich

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045405 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

Dynamical mean-field theory of active, self-interacting heteropolymers

Andriy Goychuk

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045406 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid

Aitor Erkoreka, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero, Luka Cmok, Ema Hanžel, Jordan Hobbs, Calum J. Gibb, Richard J. Mandle, Nerea Sebastián, and Alenka Mertelj

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045407 (2026) - Published 21 October, 2026

#ElegantVisuals #TheoryExperiment #SoftMatterSpotlight

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Connectivity, rigidity, and gelation in linker-mediated colloidal networks

Taejin Kwon, Murari Singh, Javier Alejandro Sanchez-Gallegos, Román Perdomo-Pérez, Ramón Castañeda-Priego, and Thomas M. Truskett

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045408 (2026) - Published 22 October, 2026

#AdvancingField #WellStructured #SoftMatterSpotlight

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

It takes two to tribo: Stochastic charge evolution in repeated binary collisions of acoustically levitated particles

Tom F. O'Hara, Adrian C. Barnes, James W. E. Drewitt, Nathan Croll Dawes, and Karen L. Aplin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045409 (2026) - Published 23 October, 2026

#AdvancingField #TimelyTopic #TheoryExperiment

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological defects in buckled colloidal monolayers

Aaron L. Galper, Henrik N. Barck, Conor M. Floyd, Elliot A. Snyder, Charlie J. Schofield, Sorin A. P. Jayaweera, Ian G. McGuire, and Sharon J. Gerbode

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045417 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

#SoftMatterSpotlight #TheoryExperiment

Heterogeneous ice nucleation with TIP4P/Ice: The role of lattice mismatch

M. Camarillo, J. Oller-Iscar, M. M. Conde, J. Ramírez, S. Blazquez, and E. Sanz

Phys. Rev. E 114, 045418 (2026) - Published 29 October, 2026

COMMENTS

Comment on “Instabilities of rotating inclined buoyancy layers”

Cheng-Nian Xiao, Inanc Senocak, Alan Shapiro, and Ivana Stiperski

Phys. Rev. E 114, 047101 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

Reply to “Comment on ‘Instabilities of rotating inclined buoyancy layers’ ”

Y. Xiao and J. J. Tao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 047102 (2026) - Published 15 October, 2026

ERRATA

Erratum: Statistical mechanics of indistinguishable energy states and the glass transition [Phys. Rev. E 114, 014119 (2026)]

Shimul Akhanjee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 049901 (2026) - Published 13 October, 2026