{"title":"Weighted average temperature as the effective temperature of a system in contact with two thermal baths.","authors":"Z C Tu","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044132","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the effective temperature of a harmonic chain whose two ends are coupled to baths at different temperatures. We propose taking a weighted average temperature as the effective temperature of the system. The weighting factors are determined by the coupling strengths between the system and two baths, as well as the asymmetry of interactions between oscillators. We revisit the thermodynamics of nonequilibrium steady states based on the weighted average temperature and find that the fundamental thermodynamic relations in such states take on similarly concise forms as those in equilibrium thermodynamics, provided that we replace the equilibrium temperature with the weighted average temperature. Additionally, we demonstrate how to explicitly calculate effective temperatures through three illustrative examples.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136041","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":"Transient asymmetry during elastic snap-through: The interplay between imperfections and oscillations.","authors":"Andrea Giudici, Weicheng Huang, Qiong Wang, Yuzhe Wang, Mingchao Liu, Sameh Tawfick, Dominic Vella","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045503","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A symmetrically buckled arch whose boundaries are clamped at an angle has two stable equilibria: an inverted and a natural state. When the distance between the clamps is increased (i.e., the confinement is decreased), the system snaps from the inverted to the natural state. Depending on the rate at which the confinement is decreased (\"unloading\"), the symmetry of the system during snap through may change: slow unloading results in snap-through occurring asymmetrically, while fast unloading results in a symmetric snap-through. It has recently been shown [Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 267201 (2024)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.132.267201] that the transient asymmetry observed at slow unloading rates is the result of the amplification of small asymmetric precursor oscillations (shape perturbations) introduced dynamically to the system, even when the system itself is perfectly symmetric. In reality, however, imperfections, such as small asymmetries in the boundary conditions, are present too. Using numerical simulations and a simple toy model, we discuss the relative importance of imperfections in the boundary conditions and initial asymmetric shape perturbations in determining the transient asymmetry that is observed. We show that for small initial shape perturbations, the magnitude of the asymmetry grows in proportion to the size of the imperfection, but that when initial shape perturbations are large, imperfections are unimportant-the asymmetry of the system is dominated by the transient amplification of the initial asymmetric shape perturbations. We also show that the dominant origin of asymmetry changes the way that asymmetry grows dynamically. Our results may guide the engineering and design of snapping beams used to control insect-sized jumping robots.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136213","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}
Wei-Jing Zhu, Xiao-Kun Jiang, Jia-Jian Li, Bao-Quan Ai
{"title":"Directed transport and collective dynamics of pulsing particles in topological lattices.","authors":"Wei-Jing Zhu, Xiao-Kun Jiang, Jia-Jian Li, Bao-Quan Ai","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044123","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the directed transport and collective patterns of pulsing particles with periodic size variation in topological lattices. Self-pulsing provides energy input at the individual level and serves as nonequilibrium driving. The distribution of the topological lattice determines the direction of particle motion, with pulsing particles preferentially moving toward high-density lattice regions, in contrast to the behavior of conventional active particles. The competition dynamics of repulsion contraction and synchronization give rise to deformation waves in dense particle environments, including both planar and circular waves, corresponding to a disordered state. These deformation waves exhibit local order but global disorder. Notably, directed transport is most pronounced in the disordered state, whereas particles exhibit no directed transport in the arrested ordered state. Additionally, optimal values of the self-pulsing parameters (the driving frequency, the self-pulsation amplitude, and the strengths of synchronization) lead to a peak in the average velocity. The particle number density also significantly influences directed transport, as an increase in number density promotes directed transport.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044123"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136272","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.L042301
Pablo Villegas
{"title":"Strange attractors in complex networks.","authors":"Pablo Villegas","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L042301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L042301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disorder and noise in physical systems often disrupt spatial and temporal regularity, yet chaotic systems reveal how order can emerge from unpredictable behavior. Complex networks, spatial analogs of chaos, exhibit disordered, non-Euclidean architectures with hidden symmetries, hinting at spontaneous order. Finding low-dimensional embeddings that reveal network patterns and link them to dimensionality that governs universal behavior remains a fundamental open challenge, as it needs to bridge the gap between microscopic disorder and macroscopic regularities. Here, the minimal space revealing key network properties is introduced, showing that non-integer dimensions produce chaotic-like attractors.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4","pages":"L042301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136300","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":"Beating stripe solitons arising from helicoidal spin-orbit coupling in Bose-Einstein condensates.","authors":"Cui-Cui Ding, Qin Zhou, B A Malomed","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044203","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrate that the model of a spatially nonuniform two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) featuring the helicoidal spin-orbit coupling (SOC), gives rise to dark-bright soliton complexes characterized by spatiotemporal periodic oscillations in each component. These solitons are formed by the superposition of dark and bright ones, and exhibit a beating state over time and a striped state across space, earning them the designation of beating stripe solitons. Our analysis demonstrates that helicoidal SOC significantly affects the formation and dynamical properties of these solitons, also serving as the primary driver for spin oscillations. Through the nonlinear superposition of the beating stripe solitons, a range of intricate scenarios of the interaction between multiple solitons emerges, including head-on collisions, bound states, and parallel states.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044203"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136310","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}
José Camacho-Mateu, Aniello Lampo, Mario Castro, José A Cuesta
{"title":"Microbial populations hardly ever grow logistically and never sublinearly.","authors":"José Camacho-Mateu, Aniello Lampo, Mario Castro, José A Cuesta","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the growth dynamics of microbial populations, challenging the conventional logistic model. By analyzing empirical data from various biomes, we demonstrate that microbial growth is better described by a generalized logistic model, the θ-logistic model. This accounts for different growth mechanisms and environmental fluctuations, leading to a generalized gamma distribution of abundance fluctuations. Our findings reveal that microbial growth is never sublinear, so they cannot endorse-at least in the microbial world-the recent proposal of this mechanism as a stability enhancer of highly diverse communities. These results have significant implications for understanding macroecological patterns and the stability of microbial ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136342","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":"Filling spherical surfaces by mixed triangle and square tiles.","authors":"Han Xie, Yao Li, Jeff Z Y Chen","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045408","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present four classes of highly symmetric defect patterns on a spherical surface tiled with triangular and square tiles. These patterns accommodate both stretched triangular and square lattices and are analyzed in terms of their symmetries. Both spherical and corresponding polyhedron views are considered, with emphasis on three-dimensional point-group symmetries. In addition to the original patterns, alternative defect configurations are explored, including those generated by the kaleidoscopic operation, originally suggested by Caspar and Klug for triangular tiling, as well as the cut-and-rotate operation applied through a great circle on the sphere. While these alternatives can lower the space-group symmetries, they provide a broader understanding of the system's possible configurations. For a fixed square surface area fraction, we also examine a scenario that identifies the likely ground state among the four primary classes and their alternatives.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136359","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":"Low-resolution descriptions of model neural activity reveal hidden features and underlying system properties.","authors":"Riccardo Aldrigo, Roberto Menichetti, Raffaello Potestio","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044315","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The analysis of complex systems such as neural networks is made particularly difficult by the overwhelming number of their interacting components. In the absence of prior knowledge, identifying a small but informative subset of network nodes on which the analysis should focus is a rather challenging task. In this work, we address this problem in the context of a Hopfield model, which is observed through the lenses of low-resolution representations, or decimation mappings, consisting of subgroups of its neurons. The optimal, most informative mappings of the network are defined through a recently developed methodology, the mapping entropy optimization workflow (MEOW), which performs an unsupervised analysis of the states sampled by the network and identifies those subgroups of units whose configuration distribution is closest to that of the full, high-resolution model. Which neurons are retained in an optimal mapping is found to critically depend on the properties of the interaction matrix of the network and the level of detail employed to describe the system; by these means, it is thus possible to extract quantitative insight about the underlying properties of the high-resolution model through the analysis of its optimal low-resolution representations. These results show a tight and potentially fruitful relation between the level of detail at which the network is inspected and the type and amount of information that can be gathered from it, and showcase the MEOW approach as a practical, enabling tool for the study of complex systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136361","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}
A Khoudiri, A El Allati, Ö E Müstecaplıoğlu, K El Anouz
{"title":"Non-Markovianity and a generalized Landauer bound for a minimal quantum autonomous thermal machine with a work qubit.","authors":"A Khoudiri, A El Allati, Ö E Müstecaplıoğlu, K El Anouz","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate the validity of the Landauer principle in the context of a non-Markovian environment, employing a quantum autonomous thermal machine (QATM) comprised of two qubits, attached to different Markovian thermal reservoirs coupled to a single qubit acting as a quantum coherence reservoir, interpreted as a working qubit. We numerically demonstrate that the non-Markovianity, arising from the exchange of correlations between the QATM qubits and the work qubit, influences the Landauer bound. We analyze two distinct reservoir types: fermionic and bosonic, and show that the QATM, operating as a single entity, interacts with the work qubit at an effective virtual temperature, leading to a violation of the conventional Landauer bound. Consequently, we derive a lower bound for the minimal dissipation energy required to erase information during the energy exchange between the QATM and the work qubit. The QATM's information engine character and impact on the work qubit is further characterized by monitoring its information content, including coherence and population dynamics. Our analysis reveals that the work qubit's populations oscillate in time, while the coherence dissipates nonmonotonically.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-1","pages":"044124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136402","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":"Microscale structural fluctuations at the melting phase transition of strongly confined achiral and chiral nematics.","authors":"J Pišljar, A Nych, U Ognysta, S Kralj, I Muševič","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.045415","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report on direct microscopic observations of thermally driven fluctuating dynamics in a narrow temperature region between the isotropic and low-temperature phases in achiral, chiral, and strongly chiral (blue phase) liquid crystal materials. We observe the dynamics in samples strongly confined between two glass surfaces which act as disordering surfaces at thicknesses above the critical confinement thickness below which the phase transition is gradual. In achiral and long-pitch chiral materials the fluctuating appears as formation and disappearance of small structureless nematic domains, whereas in strongly chiral materials, which exhibit blue phase I at larger thicknesses, these fluctuations are real-time formation and annihilation of topologically nontrivial nematic half-skyrmions. We study the dynamics of these fluctuations and present a simple model that explains how such dynamics is possible in ultraconfined systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":20085,"journal":{"name":"Physical review. E","volume":"111 4-2","pages":"045415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144136433","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}