{"title":"Instability of the ferromagnetic phase under random fields in an Ising spin glass with correlated disorder.","authors":"Hidetoshi Nishimori","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is well established that the ferromagnetic phase remains stable under random magnetic fields in three and higher dimensions for the ferromagnetic Ising model and the Edwards-Anderson model of spin glasses without correlation in the disorder variables. In this study, we investigate an Ising spin glass with correlated disorder and demonstrate that the ferromagnetic phase becomes unstable under random fields in any dimension, provided that magnetic field chaos exists in the Edwards-Anderson model on the same lattice. Additionally, we show that this instability can also be attributed to disorder (bond) chaos. We further argue that the model with correlated disorder remains in the ferromagnetic phase even in the presence of symmetry-breaking fields, as long as the Edwards-Anderson model on the same lattice exhibits a spin glass phase under a magnetic field. These results underscore the profound impact of spatial correlations in the disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136355","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":"Extended self-similarity in two-dimensional complex plasmas.","authors":"V Nosenko","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045210","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-similarity is a property of an object or process wherein a part is similar to the whole. Mathematically, it can often be expressed as a power-law scaling of the quantity of interest. Extended self-similarity is a concept widely used in the field of turbulence and refers to the power-law scaling of the longitudinal structure functions of the velocity field expressed through the structure functions of different orders, rather than distance. Originally discovered by [R. Benzi et al., Phys. Rev. E 48, R29 (1993)1063-651X10.1103/PhysRevE.48.R29] in fully developed turbulence, it was later found to hold in other situations and systems as well. In this paper, we show that in an active-matter system, extended self-similarity is possible even without the presence of respective power-law scaling in the underlying structure functions of distance. The active-matter system used in this study was a single-layer suspension of active Janus particles in a plasma. Janus particles are polymer microspheres with hemispherical metal coating. When dispersed in a plasma, they acquire self-propulsion and act as microswimmers. Extended self-similarity was also observed in the velocity field of a single-layer suspension of laser-heated regular (passive) particles, where the underlying structure functions displayed a hint of the power-law scaling near the mean interparticle distance. Therefore, it appears to be an inherent characteristic of complex plasmas.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045210"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136357","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}
Jie Chen, Yantao Zhang, Maobin Hu, Ming Li, Fulong Chen
{"title":"Nontrivial epidemic dynamics induced by information-driven awareness-activity-resource coevolution.","authors":"Jie Chen, Yantao Zhang, Maobin Hu, Ming Li, Fulong Chen","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During epidemic outbreaks, information dissemination plays a pivotal role in shaping individual perceptions, which in turn influence contact behavior and resource acquisition, collectively determining infection risk. To capture this intricate interplay, we propose a comprehensive coevolutionary dynamics model that integrates information, awareness, activity, resources, and epidemic within a multiplex network framework. Through the development of a theoretical analysis coupled with extensive numerical verifications, we uncover the nonmonotonic effects of information dissemination on epidemic dynamics. Paradoxically, excessive information flow can intensify resource competition among individuals, leading to inefficient allocation and ultimately exacerbating the epidemic. Our findings highlight the importance of optimized resource allocation, showing that moderately prioritizing aware individuals with resources can effectively reduce infection rates, especially as information dissemination increases. Additionally, we explore the optimal balance between information dissemination and resource allocation, emphasizing its strong dependence on resource availability, while activity frequency experts a comparatively minor impact. This study advances the modeling of epidemic dynamics, providing valuable insights and practical strategies for effective epidemic management and control.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136406","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":"Nonaffine motion in flowing highly polydisperse granular media.","authors":"Pablo Eduardo Illing, Eric R Weeks","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045422","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the particle-scale motion of highly polydisperse hard disks flowing in a two-dimensional bent channel. We use various size distributions of particles, in which the largest particles are up to five times larger than the smallest. The disks are pushed through an L-shaped channel to drive the particle rearrangements. Although the mean flow is essentially independent of the polydispersity, the motion of individual particles becomes more nonaffine on average for higher polydispersity samples. We characterize the nonaffine motion, finding a qualitative difference in the behavior of small and larger particles: the smaller disks have more nonaffine motion, induced by the larger particles.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136507","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":"Nonempirical approximation for the ionic thermal contribution to the equations of state based on average-atom models.","authors":"A A Ovechkin, P A Loboda, P A Sapozhnikov","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A simple nonempirical approximation is proposed to calculate the ionic thermal contribution to the average-atom equations of state. The approximation represents the main regularities of temperature and mass-density dependences of the ionic thermodynamic-function components revealed from the pseudoatom molecular dynamics calculations. It is shown that the employment of our approximation instead of commonly used ideal-gas or one-component-plasma approximations significantly improves the accuracy of the equations-of-state calculations done with the Liberman average-atom model.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045204"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136510","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 localization blurs the criticality of time series for spreading phenomena on networks.","authors":"Juliane T Moraes, Silvio C Ferreira","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We analyze the critical time series of the order parameter generated with active to inactive phase transitions of spreading dynamics running on the top of heterogeneous networks. Different activation mechanisms that govern the dynamics near the critical point were investigated. The time series were analyzed using the visibility graph (VG) method where a disassortative degree correlation of the VG is a signature of criticality. In contrast, assortative correlation is associated with off-critical dynamics. The signature of criticality given by the VG is confirmed for collective activation phenomena, as in the case of homogeneous networks. Similarly, for a localized activation driven by a densely connected set of hubs, identified by a maximum k-core decomposition, critical times series were also successfully identified by the VG method. However, in the case of activation driven by sparsely distributed hubs, the time series criticality is blurred, being observable only for very large systems. In the case of strong structural localization induced by the presence of rare regions, an assortative VG degree correlation, typical of off-critical series, is observed. We conclude that while macroscopic times series remain good proxies for the analysis of criticality for collective or maximum k-core activation, systems under spatial localization can postpone the signatures of or, in case of extreme localization, lead to false negatives for criticality of the time series.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136602","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":"Stretching semiflexible polymers: Gibbs versus Helmholtz ensembles.","authors":"Nigel T Andersen, Jeff Z Y Chen","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What differences in behavior can one draw between the measurable quantities in fixed-force and fixed-extension experiments on semiflexible polymers (such as DNA), stretched by applying a force? The marked difference between the two types of experiment, represented by two different scaling curves as a function of a reduced stretching force and reduced extension, is revealed here. Potential regions of the parameter space that could benefit from further experimental investigation are also suggested.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136567","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":"Vector resonant relaxation and statistical closure theory: Direct interaction approximation.","authors":"Sofia Flores, Jean-Baptiste Fouvry","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Stars orbiting a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxies undergo very efficient diffusion in their orbital orientations: this is \"Vector Resonant Relaxation.\" Such a dynamics is intrinsically nonlinear, stochastic, and correlated, hence bearing deep similarities with turbulence in fluid mechanics or plasma physics. In that context, we show how generic methods stemming from statistical closure theory, namely, the celebrated \"Martin-Siggia-Rose formalism,\" can be used to characterize the correlations describing the redistribution of orbital orientations. In particular, limiting ourselves to the leading order truncation in this closure scheme, the so-called \"direct interaction approximation,\" and placing ourselves in the limit of an isotropic distribution of orientations, we explicitly compare the associated prediction for the two-point correlation function with measures from numerical simulations. We discuss the successes and limitations of this approach and present possible future venues.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135904","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}
Jin-Sheng Wu, Marina Torres Lázaro, Souvik Ghosh, Haridas Mundoor, Henricus H Wensink, Ivan I Smalyukh
{"title":"Unavoidable multilevel biaxial symmetry breaking in chiral hybrid liquid crystals.","authors":"Jin-Sheng Wu, Marina Torres Lázaro, Souvik Ghosh, Haridas Mundoor, Henricus H Wensink, Ivan I Smalyukh","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chiral nematic or cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) are fluid mesophases with long-ranged orientational order featuring a quasilayered periodicity imparted by a helical director configuration but lacking long-range positional order. Doping molecular cholesteric LCs with strongly anisotropic uniaxial colloidal particles adds another level of complexity because of the interplay between weak surface-anchoring boundary conditions and bulk-based elastic distortions near the particle-LC interface. Using cylindrical colloidal disks and rods with different geometric shapes and surface conditions, we demonstrate that these colloidal inclusions generically exhibit biaxial orientational probability distributions which may impart anomalously strong local biaxiality onto the hybrid cholesteric LC structure. Unlike nonchiral hybrid molecular-colloidal LCs, where biaxial order emerges only at critical colloid volume fractions exceeding some uniaxial-biaxial transition value, the orientational probability of the colloidal inclusions immersed in chiral nematic hosts is unambiguously biaxial even at infinite dilution. We demonstrate that the colloids induce local biaxial perturbations within the molecular orientational order of the LC host medium which strongly enhances the weak but native biaxial order of chiral nematic LC induced by the chiral symmetry breaking of the director field. With the help of analytical modeling and computer simulations based on the Landau-de Gennes free energy of the host LC around the colloids, we rationalize the observed multilevel biaxial order and conclude that it is not only unavoidable but also strongly enhanced compared to both achiral hybrid LCs and purely molecular cholesteric LCs.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136239","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}
Physical review. EPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L042104
Kiran V, Toby Joseph
{"title":"Imprecise Maxwell's demon with feedback delay: An exactly solvable information engine model.","authors":"Kiran V, Toby Joseph","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L042104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L042104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A finite cycle time information engine based on a two-level system in contact with a thermal bath is studied analytically. The model for the engine incorporates an error in measuring the system's state and time delay between the measurement and the feedback process. The efficiency and power of the engine in steady state are derived as a function of level spacing, feedback delay time, engine cycle time, and measurement error. For a fixed value of level spacing and feedback delay, there is an upper bound on measurement error such that the engine can extract positive work. This threshold value of error is found to be independent of the cycle time. For a range of values of level spacing, feedback delay time and cycle time, efficiency has a non-monotonic dependence on the measurement error, implying that there is an optimal measurement error for the information engine to operate efficiently. The range of feedback delays within which the system functions as an engine, extracting positive work, depends on the measurement error and the level spacing.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4","pages":"L042104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136289","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}