Kaio F R Nascimento, Daniel M Castro, Gustavo G Cambrainha, Mauro Copelli
{"title":"Phenomenological renormalization group in neuronal models near criticality.","authors":"Kaio F R Nascimento, Daniel M Castro, Gustavo G Cambrainha, Mauro Copelli","doi":"10.1103/3lsz-87dd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/3lsz-87dd","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The phenomenological renormalization group (PRG) has been applied to the study of scale-invariant phenomena in neuronal data, providing evidence for critical phenomena in the brain. However, it remains unclear how reliably these observed signatures indicate genuine critical behavior, as it is not well established how close to criticality a system must be for them to emerge. Here, we rely on neuronal models with known critical points to investigate under which conditions the PRG procedure yields consistent results. We show that the PRG method detects scaling behavior in neuronal models only within a narrow vicinity of the critical point, reinforcing the interpretations drawn from PRG results in experimental data. We also demonstrate that time-binning choices can substantially affect the results and introduce a data-driven adaptive binning procedure to circumvent this issue.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-1","pages":"014310"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elementary derivation of the dissipation-coherence bound for stochastic oscillators.","authors":"Artemy Kolchinsky","doi":"10.1103/yj2t-frgz","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/yj2t-frgz","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The dissipation-coherence bound is a conjectured trade-off between entropy production and the quality of stochastic oscillations. We show that this bound can be derived by combining the higher-order \"thermodynamic uncertainty relation\" with a simple condition on phase-current fluctuations. In one-dimensional cyclic systems, our proposed condition is shown to be equivalent to the dissipation-coherence bound itself. Our approach yields an elementary proof in the weak-noise Gaussian regime and extends naturally to some non-Gaussian systems, as we illustrate with a run-and-tumble particle. Finally, we contrast current-based and spectral formulations of the dissipation-coherence bound.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1","pages":"L012104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Jiang, X F Shen, O Rosmej, S P Zhu, X T He, A Pukhov, B Qiao
{"title":"Universal power-law spectral feature in laser-driven proton acceleration.","authors":"S Jiang, X F Shen, O Rosmej, S P Zhu, X T He, A Pukhov, B Qiao","doi":"10.1103/75cm-kdgn","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/75cm-kdgn","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quasimonoenergetic proton beams have long been anticipated in laser-driven ion acceleration, particularly via multispecies targets in radiation pressure and target normal sheath acceleration, yet experimental results are far from expectations, and the underlying cause remains elusive. Here we reveal that even under ideal conditions, only a power-law energy spectrum dN_{p}/dE_{p}∝E_{p}^{-η}, rather than a quasimonoenergetic one, is predicted by theory when full spatial dynamics are considered, where N_{p}, E_{p}, and η represent the proton number, energy, and power-law index, respectively. Our theory and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations demonstrate that the spectral shape and index η are independent of the specific acceleration mechanism, but are correlated with the target composition and laser focal spot profile. This provides a plausible explanation for the power-law spectra observed in experiments across a wide range of laser and plasma parameters. Possible paths to breaking the universality and achieving quasimonoenergetic proton beams are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-2","pages":"015222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonequilibrium pathways between cluster morphologies in active phase separation: Necking, rupture, and cavitation.","authors":"Liheng Yao, Michael E Cates, Robert L Jack","doi":"10.1103/vdps-lhr9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/vdps-lhr9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the dynamical pathways of a morphological transition in a two-dimensional active lattice gas undergoing motility-induced phase separation. The transition is between two locally stable morphologies of the liquid cluster: a system-spanning \"slab\" and a compact \"droplet.\" We generate trajectories of this transition in both directions using forward flux sampling. We find that the droplet-to-slab transition always follows a similar mechanism to its equilibrium counterpart, but the reverse (slab-to-droplet) transition depends on rare nonequilibrium fluctuations. At low Péclet numbers the equilibrium and nonequilibrium pathways compete, while at high Péclet numbers the equilibrium pathway is entirely suppressed, and the only allowed mechanism involves a large vapor bubble. We discuss the implications of these findings for active matter systems more generally.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-1","pages":"014148"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rohit V Menon, Mithun Madhusudanan, Mithun Chowdhury
{"title":"Hydrodynamic singularities mimic criticality in dewetting polymer films.","authors":"Rohit V Menon, Mithun Madhusudanan, Mithun Chowdhury","doi":"10.1103/9frw-h4j6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/9frw-h4j6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Dewetting of polymer thin films on nonwettable substrates culminates in a late-stage morphological transition in which a connected fibrillar network fragments into isolated droplets. Because this transformation resembles a depercolation process, it raises the question of whether the network-droplet transition represents a genuine critical phenomenon. We address this question by defining a connectivity-based order parameter and analyzing spatial correlations of the evolving morphology. Although the order parameter exhibits a sharp decrease suggestive of critical behavior, the correlation length of the polymer-rich phase remains finite, evolves through irregular fluctuations, and shows no divergence near the transition. We explain this by noting that the length scales at which the Plateau-Rayleigh instabilities act are much smaller than the large-scale correlations encapsulated in the structure's correlation length. In addition, nondimensionalized order-parameter curves measured at different observation scales fail to collapse onto a universal master curve. These results demonstrate that the breakup of the fibrillar network is governed by localized Plateau-Rayleigh rupture events rather than system-spanning cooperative dynamics. The late-stage transition in dewetting films therefore mimics a hydrodynamic singularity-driven pseudocritical crossover rather than a true critical transition.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1","pages":"L013402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural optimization of the most probable paths of three-dimensional active Brownian particles.","authors":"Bin Zheng, Zhongqiang Xiong, Changhao Li, Zhanglin Hou, Ziluo Zhang, Xinpeng Xu, Li-Shing Lin, Kenta Ishimoto, Kento Yasuda, Shigeyuki Komura","doi":"10.1103/ys1b-1lrd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/ys1b-1lrd","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We develop a variational neural-network framework to determine the most probable path (MPP) of a 3D active Brownian particle (ABP) by directly minimizing the Onsager-Machlup integral (OMI). To obtain the OMI, we use the Onsager-Machlup variational principle for active systems and construct the Rayleighian of the ABP by including its active power. This approach reveals geometric transitions of the MPP from in-plane I- and U-shaped paths to 3D helical paths as the final time and net displacement are varied. We also demonstrate that the initial and final boundary conditions have a significant impact on the MPPs. Our results show that neural optimization combined with the Onsager-Machlup variational principle provides an efficient and versatile framework for exploring optimal transition pathways in active and nonequilibrium systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1","pages":"L012103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tim Van Wesemael, Gilberto Nakamura, Jan Baetens, Odemir M Bruno, Alexandre S Martinez, Christophe Deroulers
{"title":"Restoring detailed balance in non-Hermitian Markov processes.","authors":"Tim Van Wesemael, Gilberto Nakamura, Jan Baetens, Odemir M Bruno, Alexandre S Martinez, Christophe Deroulers","doi":"10.1103/qc1n-w5tg","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/qc1n-w5tg","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stochastic out-of-equilibrium processes often involve asymmetric contributions that break detailed balance and lead to nonmonotonic entropy production, limiting thermodynamic interpretations and inference techniques. Here we use Dyson maps to restore monotonic entropy growth in those processes, allowing the use of standard tools from statistical physics, providing a general and computationally tractable method applicable to a broad class of Markovian systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-1","pages":"014131"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ladislas Wierzchalek, Georges Gauthier, Baptiste Darbois Texier
{"title":"Avalanches of a granular medium reinforced with flexible fibers.","authors":"Ladislas Wierzchalek, Georges Gauthier, Baptiste Darbois Texier","doi":"10.1103/yk6m-tpsx","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/yk6m-tpsx","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The addition of a small fraction of flexible fibers to a granular medium is known to enhance the bulk mechanical strength of the material. However, their effect on the free-surface flow of grains remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we investigate the influence of flexible fibers on dry granular avalanches. Using a drum partially filled with a grain-fiber mixture and rotated at low speeds, we observed successive avalanches and analyzed their dynamics. Specifically, we examined the effects of fiber volume fraction and fiber length on both the statistical properties and the individual dynamics of avalanches. Our results show that the average starting and stopping angles increase with fiber volume fraction, demonstrating that the addition of fibers stabilizes the granular slope. Fiber length is found to have only a minor influence on slope stabilization, i.e., on the increase in avalanche angles induced by fibers. While the increase in avalanche angles aligns with the bulk rheology of grain-fiber mixtures, the role of fiber length appears different in the case of free-surface flows. Increasing the fiber volume fraction also alters the distribution of avalanche angles, leading to a broader distribution and a higher probability of small-amplitude avalanches. Analysis of individual avalanche dynamics further reveals that fibers affect avalanche duration, suggesting enhanced energy dissipation within the system. To capture these effects, we propose a theoretical model that links avalanche dynamics to the rheological properties of the material. This framework provides an estimate of how fibers influence the inertial term in the rheology of grain-fiber mixtures, thereby extending existing empirical formulations for their behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-2","pages":"015414"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of particle lane formation in confined viscoelastic fluids under shear.","authors":"Hiroto Yokoyama, Masanori Honda, Rinya Miyakawa, Yuki Shinohara, Kota Nakamura, Kojiro Otoguro, Kiwamu Yoshii, Yutaka Sumino","doi":"10.1103/cm4c-m7lw","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/cm4c-m7lw","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Simple shear flow can induce flow-aligned chain formation of particles suspended in viscoelastic fluids. Although this phenomenon has been reported for decades, direct in situ measurements of the alignment dynamics and particle trajectories during chain formation remain limited. Here, we develop an in situ observation platform based on a parallel-plate geometry with a fixed top plate and a rotating bottom plate, separated by a gap comparable to the particle diameter, enabling simultaneous observation of particle alignment under radially varying shear rates. The narrow gap strongly confines particle motion, thereby enhancing hydrodynamic interactions and collision events between particles. Using a viscoelastic fluid embedding zircon particles as the sample, we find that alignment occurs once the local particle Weissenberg number exceeds unity (Wi_{p}≥1), defined using an effective shear rate based on the wall velocity and the available gap width. Particle tracking further reveals an intermittent back-and-forth motion along the flow direction, observed in a reference frame corotating at half the angular velocity of the bottom plate, where the fluid velocity vanishes at the channel midplane. This motion arises from switching between two stable particle heights and is hereafter referred to as \"shuttling,\" which we define explicitly to avoid ambiguity. Using the image brightness in a dyed fluid as a proxy for out-of-plane position, we demonstrate that this shuttling motion originates from vertical displacement of the particles. We further construct a minimal agent-based model in which the particle height follows a Ginzburg-Landau-type double-well potential, and show that collision-driven accumulation emerges in simulations. In the strongly confined geometry, alignment occurs via an effective attraction induced by collisions, which is qualitatively reminiscent of clustering phenomena in active matter.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-2","pages":"015422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tunable bands in one-dimensional fractional quantum media.","authors":"Brenden R Guyette, Joshua M Lewis, Lincoln D Carr","doi":"10.1103/yrtd-m3tt","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/yrtd-m3tt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fractional calculus has become an essential framework in geophysics, optics, and biological systems to capture long-range correlations and anomalous transport. In this article, we extend the success of fractional calculus in physical models to explore a particle in a periodic potential, where the Schrödinger equation is extended to its fractional form. This framework enables us to study how the Lévy index q governs the formation and inversion of energy bands, offering a pathway to engineer new physical behaviors and device functionalities by tuning q in periodic quantum systems. We solve the fractional Schrödinger equation for periodic rectangular potentials of varying height V_{0}, barrier thickness L, and well width W using an imaginary-time evolution algorithm, and supplement the discrete energy dispersion through Gaussian process regression. This analysis reveals a qualitative shift in the system's band structure at q=2, separating into distinct regimes of dispersion that define behavior for q>2 and q<2. For q>2, the energy bands undergo an inverting transformation as symmetric minima emerge within the first Brillouin zone and shift from k=0 toward k=±π/a with increasing q. These degenerate minima define a Bloch-momentum qubit, suggesting an analog to valley degrees of freedom used in valleytronics. The q at which the inversion completes scales as q∝V_{0}^{-0.28±0.05}, q∝L^{-0.35±0.08}, and q∝W^{-0.49±0.06} when varying potential parameters individually, indicating a tunable transformation sensitivity to potential geometry. In contrast, for q<2, the ground band hardens around k=0, with a dispersion following the functional form of C|k|^{q}+E_{0} near k=0. This suggests an effective mass of 0 for 1<q<2 at the band's lowest energy state. These results demonstrate that the Lévy index serves as a tunable degree of freedom in quantum periodic systems, capable of driving band inversion, modulating the band gap, and reshaping carrier dynamics through effective-mass control.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 1-1","pages":"014106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148796912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}