Volume 114, Issue 5 (partial)

November 2026

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anisotropic diffusion in a layer of varying thickness

Pavol Kalinay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054104 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

In order to describe diffusion of a particle in a thin layer of varying thickness, the author uses a mapping procedure originally derived for one-dimensional channels to obtain an effective two-dimensional equation. The resulting description of diffusion in such a confined geometry can be useful for systems like particles moving in thin films and particle separators.

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Experimental demonstration of beam-driven wakefield acceleration in laser-plasma filament

M. Galletti, L. Verra, A. Biagioni, M. Carillo, L. Crincoli, R. Demitra, G. Di Pirro, G. Parise, R. Pompili, F. Stocchi, F. Villa, A. Zigler, and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

This paper reports an experimental demonstration of beam-driven plasma wakefield acceleration in which the plasma is produced by laser filamentation of low-pressure nitrogen inside a capillary. Results demonstrate that filament-generated plasmas are a viable plasma source offering operational reproducibility.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanical pairing and self-assembled chains of nonconvex granular rotors

Thomas Barois, Mélanie Labiausse, Jean-François Boudet, Juho S. Lintuvuori, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055409 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Combining experiments and simulations, this paper explores the collective behavior of active granular rotors. It is shown that an effective attractive interaction controlled by rotational activity and particle shape leads to the particles’ self-assembly into chainlike structures.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rate-sensitive attenuation of elasticity in growth-conditioned biofilms

L. Dinis, M. Calero, J. Martín-Roca, V. Bianco, A. K. Monnappa, I. López-Montero, B. Orgaz, C. Valeriani, and F. Monroy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055412 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

This work investigates the oscillatory rheology of bacterial biofilms grown under either static or shaken conditions. The authors find that mature static-grown biofilms exhibit a frequency-dependent crossover from elastic-dominated to dissipation-dominated behavior, whereas shaken biofilms remain predominantly solidlike. They model these results with a rate-sensitive two-state description.

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LETTERS

Statistical Physics

LETTER

Statistical-mechanical model for dipolar chain formation

Zhongqi Liang and Jesús Peréz-Ríos

Phys. Rev. E 114, L052101 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

LETTER

Parity-controlled emergence of ordered phases on hierarchical lattices

Sumitra Rudra, Damien Foster, and Sanjay Kumar

Phys. Rev. E 114, L052102 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

LETTER

Largest connected component in duplication-divergence growing graphs with symmetric coupled divergence

Dario Borrelli

Phys. Rev. E 114, L052301 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

LETTER

Logarithmic dispersion at marginal stability in collective attention

Keisuke Okamura

Phys. Rev. E 114, L052302 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Plasma Physics

LETTER

Ultrastrong quantum squeezing mediated by plasma waves

Kenan Qu and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. E 114, L053201 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Soft Matter including Polymers, Liquid Crystals, and Granular Materials

LETTER

Energy-based model integrated with artificial intelligence for electrospinning jet profiles

Gaoxiao Jiang, Rui Ma, and Chen-Xu Wu

Phys. Rev. E 114, L053401 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Mechanics, Interfaces, and Films

LETTER

Stretching and bending of very thick elastic beams

Shiheng Zhao (赵世恒) and Pierre A. Haas

Phys. Rev. E 114, L053501 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

ARTICLES

Statistical Physics

Seismic entropic analysis based on magnitudes and time intervals

Eugenio E. Vogel, D. Pastén, and G. Saravia

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Lévy walks with permanent immobilization characterized by non-normalized flight time distribution

Heyu Yuan and Xudong Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Maximum entropy models of neuronal populations at and off criticality

T. S. A. N. Simões, F. Lombardi, D. Plenz, H. J. Herrmann, and L. de Arcangelis

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054103 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anisotropic diffusion in a layer of varying thickness

Pavol Kalinay

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054104 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

#AdvancingField #TechnicalAdvancement

Enhanced dumbbell diffusion in a periodic potential by the elevator effect

B. A. Kiang and H. Schiessel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054105 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Noise-driven velocity selection in persistent reaction random walks: Renormalization theory and numerical validation

D. C. Bitang Á Ziem

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054106 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Impact of quenched disorder and multiphoton interaction on the dynamics of a quantum battery

Azam Mirzaei, Hamid Reza Baghshahi, and Mohammad Javad Faghihi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054107 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Negative quasiprobability trajectories for Bell-diagonal states under local decoherence

Qing Yu, Kun Zhang, Yang-Yang Chen, and Xiao-Hui Wang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054108 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Advantages of small-view visually aligned active particles in competing for nutrient resources

Maoping Zhang and Weirong Zhong

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054109 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Scaling of long-range loop-erased random walks

Tianning Xiao, Xianzhi Pan, Zhijie Fan, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054110 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Exact amplitude relations for diffusion-limited aggregation

Thomas C. Halsey

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054111 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Level-2.5 large deviations and uncertainty relations for self-interacting jump processes: Tilting constructions and the emergence of timescale separation

Francesco Coghi and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054112 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Critical Hawkes processes with random fertilities: Stationarity in law beyond infinite mean activity

Didier Sornette

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054113 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Fluctuations in Aharonov-Bohm electrodynamics

F. O. Minotti and G. Modanese

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054114 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Klein bottle ratio of two-dimensional ferromagnetic Potts models

Zi-Han Wang and Li-Ping Yang

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054115 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Countoscope for self-propelled particles

Tristan Cerdin, Talia Calazans, C. Douarche, and Sophie Marbach

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054116 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Exact island-size distribution and Family-Vicsek scaling function in homogeneous growth with size-linear capture numbers

Vladimir G. Dubrovskii and Nickolay V. Sibirev

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054117 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Mean-field theory for the three-state active lattice gas model

Ana L. N. Dias, Ronald Dickman, and Tiago Venzel Rosembach

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054118 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for generalized time-reversal observables

Tetta Indo and Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054119 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Boltzmann-like occupation of nonequilibrium steady states on dense disordered networks

Jacob Calvert

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054120 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Thermodynamic bounds from Otto–Villani functional inequalities

Andrea Auconi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054121 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

Scaling behavior of bifurcation delay in coupled oscillators with unequal time scales

Deepak Rawat, Awadhesh Prasad, and Suresh Kumarasamy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Composite gap solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with an asymmetric bichromatic superlattice and spatially modulated nonlinearity

Tongyu Wu and Tianfu Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054202 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Complex spacing ratio statistics in the partially open asymmetric quantum baker map

Leonardo Ermann, Pablo Sesin, Alejandro M. F. Rivas, Pablo Bergamasco, and Gabriel G. Carlo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054203 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Recurrent behavior in a diatomic Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou lattice

Guo Deng, Andrea Pezzi, Genghong Lin, and Miguel Onorato

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054204 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Universal features in atmospheric particulate matter dynamics

Suchismita Banerjee, Koyena Ghosh, Urna Basu, and Banasri Basu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054205 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Hysteretic synchronization transitions induced by adaptive phase frustration

Junyi Zheng, Changgui Gu, Jiangsheng Wang, and Yuxuan Song

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054206 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Machine learning prediction of explosive death in coupled oscillator networks

Zhonghua Zhang, Liang Wang, Xinyi Li, Ludovico Minati, Michael Small, Stefano Boccaletti, and Wei Xu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054207 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Fano-like resonances in a Stuart-Landau oscillator with state-dependent delayed feedback

D. A. Krylov, A. V. Kovalev, A. V. Babichev, and E. A. Viktorov

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054208 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Product expansion of reservoir states for robust chaotic time series prediction

Kaiwen Jiang, Michael Small, and Yong Zou

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054209 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Integrability-breaking phase transitions in stadiumlike billiards

Anne Kétri P. da Fonseca and Edson D. Leonel

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054210 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Self-learning mechanical circuits

Vishal P. Patil, Ian Ho, and Manu Prakash

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054211 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Structure of higher-order interactions controls oscillation death and multistability in excitable networks

Shenbagavalli V, Dianavinnarasi Joseph, and Suresh Kumarasamy

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054212 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Nonlinear dynamics of rapidly driven systems

Afshin Besharat and Alexander A. Penin

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054213 (2026) - Published 10 November, 2026

Dynamical investigation of a multirhythmic vibroimpact self-sustained system with enhanced memory damping regime according to correlated noise excitation

R. Mbakob Yonkeu, Norbert Marwan, E. N. Francoise, R. Yamapi, and Jurgen Kurths

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054214 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Networks and Complex Systems

Human population dynamics as a Bayesian inverse transport problem

Chong Qi

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054301 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Noise color shapes power grid stochastic responses

Longxin Yang and Xiaozhu Zhang (张潇竹)

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054302 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Mass media interventions and social reinforcements drive rumor propagation

Yafang Dong, Liang'an Huo, Matjaž Perc, and Stefano Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054303 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Percolation transition of strongly connected clusters in finite dimensions and on complete graphs

Qi Wang and Ming Li

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054304 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Long-range social pressure and the evolution of cooperation in multiplex networks

María Pereda and Gabrielle Muller

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054305 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Framework for proto-immunity in open chemical reaction networks

Yannick De Decker

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054306 (2026) - Published 4 November, 2026

Ecological networks of viable species with degree-dependent interaction

Hae Seong Lee, Deok-Sun Lee, Sang Hoon Lee, Samir Suweis, and Hye Jin Park

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054307 (2026) - Published 5 November, 2026

Long-range assortativity

Pablo I. Fierens and Leandro Chaves Rêgo

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054308 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Resetting-based designated information distribution

Xiaojuan Ma, Yan Wang, and Indranil Gupta

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054309 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Biological Physics

Theory of semidiscontinuous DNA replication

Janani G and Deepak Bhat

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054401 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Autotaxis of a run-and-tumble agent via reinforcement learning

Ramesh Pramanik, Shradha Mishra, and Sakuntala Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054402 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Kinetics of segregation of topologically modified ring polymers in cylindrical confinement

Harsh Doshi, Shreerang Pande, Sathish K. Sukumaran, and Apratim Chatterji

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054403 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Promotion of cooperation in deme-structured populations with growth-merging dynamics

Damien Ribière, Alia Abbara, and Anne-Florence Bitbol

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054404 (2026) - Published 9 November, 2026

Prospective coding and path integration emerge as equilibrium solutions of self-organizing neural networks with firing-rate adaptation

Facundo Emina and Emilio Kropff

Phys. Rev. E 114, 054405 (2026) - Published 12 November, 2026

Fluid Dynamics

Multiagent rendezvous in fluid flows via reinforcement learning

Bocheng Li, Jingran Qiu, and Lihao Zhao

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055101 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

Ultrahigh tensile strength of water confined in carbon nanotubes: Mechanism and relevance to long-distance water transport in tall trees

Si-Qi Yu, Xiao-Yan Zhou, and Hang-Jun Lu

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055102 (2026) - Published 3 November, 2026

Generalized kinetic hierarchy for the Boltzmann equation with application to incompressible turbulence

Yiming Qi (岐亦铭), Jie Shen (沈杰), Lian-Ping Wang (王连平), Tianbai Xiao (肖天白), Zhaoli Guo (郭照立), Yonghao Zhang (张勇豪), and Shiyi Chen (陈十一)

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055103 (2026) - Published 6 November, 2026

Plasma Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental demonstration of beam-driven wakefield acceleration in laser-plasma filament

M. Galletti, L. Verra, A. Biagioni, M. Carillo, L. Crincoli, R. Demitra, G. Di Pirro, G. Parise, R. Pompili, F. Stocchi, F. Villa, A. Zigler, and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. E 114, 055201 (2026) - Published 2 November, 2026

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