A Khoudiri, A El Allati, Y Khlifi, K El Anouz, Ö E Müstecaplıoğlu
{"title":"Correlation enhanced autonomous quantum battery charging via structured reservoirs.","authors":"A Khoudiri, A El Allati, Y Khlifi, K El Anouz, Ö E Müstecaplıoğlu","doi":"10.1103/x2s1-27k1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/x2s1-27k1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this work, we investigate the autonomous charging process of a quantum battery coupled to a structured reservoir composed of two qubits, each locally coupled to its own bosonic thermal bath. Moreover, the reservoir interacts with a charger-battery architecture through three configurations: (I) direct coupling between reservoir qubits and battery; (II) collective coupling among the reservoir qubits, charger, and battery; and (III) a collective coupling between the reservoir qubits and charger together with a local charger-battery interaction. However, by using incoherent and coherent initial states, we analyze the stored energy, ergotropy, and charging power of the battery, and derive upper and lower bounds on the extractable work in terms of the free energy of coherence and the correlations exchanged between subsystems. Our results show that global and local coherences, as well as total correlations, act as quantum resources that enhance autonomous charging. Additionally, we demonstrate that the free energy stored in the quantum battery splits into contributions from coherence and correlations, providing numerical evidence that supports the derived ergotropy bounds. Importantly, this work highlights how structured reservoirs enable autonomous and resource-enhanced quantum battery operation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207589","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}
Bing Qi, Jianwen Li, Xinxin Lv, Xi-Qiao Feng, Jing Du
{"title":"Dominance switching between substrate adhesion and curvature in directional collective cell migration.","authors":"Bing Qi, Jianwen Li, Xinxin Lv, Xi-Qiao Feng, Jing Du","doi":"10.1103/79s4-d9d2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/79s4-d9d2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Substrate curvature and cell-substrate adhesion are two key physical determinants of directional collective cell migration, yet their joint regulatory mechanism remains unresolved. Here, we establish a physical framework based on the instantaneous force balance to reveal the dominance switching mechanism between these two factors in collective cell migration. Higher curvature sets a threshold that gates migration initiation by redistributing forces, while adhesion primarily governs curvature-independent migration velocity after cells surpass the threshold by mediating the balance between driving and resistive forces. This framework yields experimentally consistent predictions for in vitro systems and helps understand a diversity of physiological and pathological processes that involve collective cell dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207576","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":"Kinetic temperatures and inertial effects in a nonequilibrium bead-spring model.","authors":"Jetin E Thomas, Ramandeep S Johal","doi":"10.1103/mjm9-5l51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/mjm9-5l51","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate a nonequilibrium steady-state model consisting of two coupled beads with arbitrary masses in contact with two thermal baths at different temperatures. Using a covariance-matrix approach together with numerical simulations of the underdamped Langevin dynamics, we characterize steady-state probability distributions, heat transport, and entropy production. We show that irreversibility measures such as entropy production and heat current are invariant under an exchange of the bead masses, whereas energy-storage observables depend explicitly on the mass arrangement in a symmetrical setup. This reveals a fundamental distinction: energy observables exhibit path dependence in singular mass limits, while transport and irreversibility remain well defined. We show that kinetic temperatures provide the natural variables governing the thermodynamics of the system: their difference controls transport and entropy production, while their sum determines the mean energy via a model-specific generalized equipartition relation. In the infinite-mass limit, only constitutive relations expressed in terms of kinetic temperatures remain meaningful. Thus, energy, transport, and irreversibility are unified through kinetic temperatures as the organizing variables. We also derive an effective temperature that defines an equilibrium-like canonical distribution. Finally, we analyze the notion of ergodicity and show that the time-averaged observables converge significantly faster than the ensemble averages.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034142"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207578","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":"Emergence of cooperation in nonlinear higher-order public goods games.","authors":"Jaume Llabrés, Onkar Sadekar, Federico Malizia, Federico Battiston","doi":"10.1103/54zg-75zk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/54zg-75zk","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Evolutionary game theory has provided substantial contributions to explain the emergence of cooperation under unfavorable conditions in ecology, economics, and the social sciences. Recently, inspired by newly available empirical evidence on group interactions, higher-order networks have emerged as a natural framework to encode multiplayer games in structured populations. Here we study the emergence of cooperation in nonlinear public goods games on hypergraphs, where collective reinforcement captures the synergistic or discounting effect associated with each additional cooperator. In well-mixed populations, when all games have the same number of players, the system displays a transition whose nature changes from continuous to discontinuous depending on the form of nonlinearity. By contrast, when games involving different numbers of players coexist, an additional bistability region between an active coexistence state and full cooperation may emerge. We further find that scale-free hypergraphs promote cooperation, highlighting the crucial role played by both the initial placement of cooperators and the presence of hyperdegree correlations. Overall, our results provide a comprehensive characterization of nonlinear public goods games on hypergraphs and open avenues for richer models of evolutionary dynamics of multiplayer games on structured populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034316"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207624","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":"Strong-coupling phases of conserved growth models are crumpled.","authors":"Debayan Jana, Abhik Basu","doi":"10.1103/r6p5-k98k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/r6p5-k98k","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We show that stochastically driven nonequilibrium conserved growth models admit generic strong coupling phases for sufficiently strong nonlocal chemical potentials underlying the dynamics. The models exhibit generic roughening transitions between perturbatively accessible weak coupling phases satisfying an exact relation between the scaling exponents in all dimensions d, and strong coupling phases. In dimensions at or below the critical dimension d_{c}, the latter phases are unstable and argued to be crumpled, and thus distinct from the well-known strong coupling rough phase of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation in dimensions d≥2. At d_{c}, conventional spatiotemporal scaling in the weak coupling phase is logarithmically modulated and are exactly obtained.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3","pages":"L032102"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207611","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}
Valentin Anfray, Manisha Dhayal, Hong-Yan Shih, Thomas Vojta
{"title":"Diffusion disorder in the contact process.","authors":"Valentin Anfray, Manisha Dhayal, Hong-Yan Shih, Thomas Vojta","doi":"10.1103/73g3-b38r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/73g3-b38r","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the effects of spatially inhomogeneous diffusion on the nonequilibrium phase transition in the unidimensional contact process. The directed-percolation critical point in the contact process is known to be stable against the addition of a spatially uniform diffusion term. Correspondingly, we find quenched randomness in the diffusion rates to be irrelevant by power counting in the field theory of the contact process. However, large-scale Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate that such diffusion disorder destabilizes the clean directed percolation critical point. Instead, the transition belongs to the same infinite-randomness universality class as the contact process with disorder in the infection or healing rates. To explain these results, we develop an effective model with an infinite diffusion rate; it shows that diffusion disorder generates an effective disorder in the healing rates. The same mechanism also appears in the field-theoretic description: Whereas diffusion disorder is irrelevant by power-counting, it generates standard random-mass disorder under renormalization. We discuss the validity of this mechanism at higher dimensions and for other absorbing state transitions and nonequilibrium phase transitions in general.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034112"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207612","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}
Harrison Hartle, P L Krapivsky, S Redner, Yuanzhao Zhang
{"title":"Anomalous scaling in redirection networks.","authors":"Harrison Hartle, P L Krapivsky, S Redner, Yuanzhao Zhang","doi":"10.1103/9lmp-pydp","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/9lmp-pydp","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In networks that grow by isotropic redirection (IR), a new node selects an initial target node uniformly at random and attaches to a randomly chosen neighbor of the target. The emerging networks exhibit leaf proliferation, in which the number of nonleaves scales sublinearly as N^{μ} and the degree distribution has an algebraic tail with exponent 1+μ. To understand these mysterious properties, we introduce a class of models with redirection to leaves whenever possible. The resulting networks exhibit qualitatively similar phenomenology to IR networks, but avoid the inherent nonlocality of the IR growth rule. These networks admit an analytical description of the leaf degree distribution, from which we extract the exponent μ.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207618","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}
Iván Álvarez Domenech, Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, Pedro Córdoba-Torres, Silvia N Santalla
{"title":"Emergent correlations in the selected link times along optimal paths.","authors":"Iván Álvarez Domenech, Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, Pedro Córdoba-Torres, Silvia N Santalla","doi":"10.1103/nxwl-5wvf","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/nxwl-5wvf","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the context of first-passage percolation, we investigate the statistical properties of the selected link times (SLTs)-the random link times comprising the optimal paths (or geodesics) connecting two given points. We focus on weakly disordered square lattices, whose geodesics are known to fall under the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Our analysis reveals universal power-law decays with the end-to-end distance for both the average and the standard deviation of the SLTs, along with an intricate pattern of long-range correlations, whose scaling exponents are directly linked to KPZ universality. Crucially, the SLT distributions for diagonal and axial paths exhibit significant differences, which we trace back to the distinct directed and undirected nature, respectively, of the underlying geodesics. Moreover, we demonstrate that the SLT distribution violates the conditions of the central limit theorem. Instead, SLT sums follow the Tracy-Widom distribution characteristic of the KPZ class, which we associate with evidence for the emergence of high-order long-range correlations in the ensemble.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034134"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207653","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":"Evidence of the de Almeida-Thouless transition in three-dimensional spin glasses.","authors":"L H Miranda-Filho, Yuliang Jin","doi":"10.1103/g8s9-t73p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/g8s9-t73p","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The nature of spin-glass states in a magnetic field remains a major open problem in statistical physics. The existence of the de Almeida-Thouless (dAT) transition for three-dimensional (3D) spin glasses in a field is still debated. We introduce a computational method to define the spin-glass susceptibility, which is robust against the broad tail in the overlap distribution that undermines conventional analyses. Applying this approach to the Edwards-Anderson spin-glass model in 2D and 3D, and contrasting with the 3D Ising (without disorder) and mean-field spin-glass models, we find a stark difference: the locus of susceptibility maxima bends to the right in the field-temperature plane for the Ising and 2D spin-glass cases, indicating a supercritical crossover line, but bends to the left for the mean field and 3D spin glasses-a signature of the dAT line. Finite-size scaling further suggests that the peak susceptibility diverges with system size in 3D spin glasses under a field, while saturating in 2D. These results provide direct numerical evidence for the dAT transition in 3D, supporting the replica symmetry breaking scenario.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-1","pages":"034137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207670","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":"Diode effect of a rarefied binary gas mixture flowing through a long conical capillary.","authors":"Mingming Gu, Zilong Deng, Yongping Chen","doi":"10.1103/f6sq-lq4b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/f6sq-lq4b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For gas mixtures flowing through conical capillaries with small feature sizes, intermolecular collisions compete with ballistic transport. This leads to discrepancies between real flow rates and predicted results by conventional hydraulic methods. A model is established to calculate the flow rates of rarefied gas flowing through long conical capillaries at arbitrary pressure and concentration drop. The applicability of the model extends from binary gas mixtures to reduced single-species gases. The research results show that the diode effect exists for either binary gas mixtures or single-species gases. The maximum and minimum of the diode effect is obtained in the intermediate flow regime, where the intermolecular collisions and the ballistic transport contribute comparably. The diode-effect curve associated with the heavy species exhibits the same nonmonotonic dependence on the mean rarefaction parameter as observed in the single-species gas case. Interestingly, the diode effect for the light species is exactly the opposite, presenting a trend of first decreasing and then increasing. This abnormal diode effect can be heuristically interpreted, within the framework of the present long-capillary approximation, as resulting from the combined influences of local gas-surface interactions, cross collisions between binary species molecules, and gas separation.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"114 3-2","pages":"035103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149207693","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}