{"title":"Dynamics of a quasi-two-dimensional vibrated granular system of geometric solids.","authors":"L Palacios-Razo, F Donado","doi":"10.1103/yg4b-flr6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/yg4b-flr6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We experimentally investigate the dynamics of quasi-two-dimensional vibrated granular systems composed of geometric solids with identical mass. We analyze both the motion of individual particles and the collective behavior at different packing fractions. For single particles, we find that the number of vertices determines the type of motion. Solids with few vertices exhibit Brownian-like motion, while shapes with many or no vertices display more superdiffusivelike behavior. At the collective level, particle geometry and packing fraction jointly determine whether the system exhibits diffusive, subdiffusive, or superdiffusive dynamics, as revealed by the mean squared displacement, diffusion coefficients, the non-Gaussian parameter, and the probability distribution functions. We conclude that while the packing fraction controls the overall progression across dynamical regimes, the particle geometry dictates the specific pathways and extent of these transitions. These findings establish particle geometry as a design parameter for controlling the dynamics of driven granular media.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025408"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018004","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":"Critical properties of strongly anisotropic ferromagnetic multilayers with dipolar interactions.","authors":"P S Pagliaro, G P Saracco, M A Bab","doi":"10.1103/y1n2-s1bx","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/y1n2-s1bx","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Strong-anisotropy magnetic multilayers composed of two identical ferromagnetic layers separated by a nonmagnetic spacer are modeled by the Ising model including intralayer dipolar interactions and interlayer exchange coupling (IEC), where frustration emerges from the competition between interactions acting at different length scales. The effects of the IEC on the phase behavior are systematically analyzed by Monte Carlo simulations using the Wang-Landau (WL) and short-time dynamics (STD) methods. For a fixed identical ratio between exchange and dipolar constants, the temperature-IEC phase diagram at zero external magnetic field is determined. It is demonstrated that the layers reproduce the same low- and high-temperature phases as the bidimensional Ising dipolar model (IDM), namely, stripe domains and a tetragonal liquid phase, respectively. The continuous character of the transition line between these phases is independently confirmed by both WL and STD approaches. Remarkably, a scaling law for the reduced critical temperature is uncovered, characterized by a shift exponent close to the critical susceptibility exponent (γ) of the bidimensional IDM. This finding generalizes the scaling predictions previously reported for the order-disorder transition in short-range Ising bilayers to systems with long-range dipolar interactions. Furthermore, STD results reveal that the critical temperature increases monotonically with the IEC strength, reaching values up to twice the critical temperature of the IDM. This behavior demonstrates a strong IEC-induced enhancement of the thermal stability of the stripe phase, thereby extending the short-range bilayer scenario to the dipolar case. Finally, the estimated critical exponents appear to belong to the universality class of the corresponding bidimensional IDM.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024138"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018349","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}
Sen Mu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Roderich Moessner, Mehran Kardar
{"title":"Directed polymer transfer matrices as a unified generator of distinct one-point fluctuation laws.","authors":"Sen Mu, Abbas Ali Saberi, Roderich Moessner, Mehran Kardar","doi":"10.1103/cf3y-67f4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/cf3y-67f4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We numerically revisit the transfer-matrix formulation of directed polymers in random media and show that a common finite-dimensional framework organizes the canonical one-point fluctuation laws in (1+1) dimensions. For a fixed realization of the bulk disorder, full-space partition functions are obtained from the same time-ordered product W(t) through endpoint contractions or a Brownian-weighted initial vector, while the half-space construction modifies only the transfer rule at the absorbing boundary. These choices yield distributions consistent with the standard KPZ subclasses: Tracy-Widom GUE for point-to-point geometry, Tracy-Widom GOE for point-to-line geometry, Tracy-Widom GSE for half-space point-to-point geometry, and Baik-Rains for the stationary line-to-point construction. In all four cases, the free-energy fluctuations grow as t^{1/3}, and the low-order cumulants approach the corresponding universal benchmarks. The matrix-product formulation also provides access to intrinsic spectral observables. For the leading eigenvalue λ_{1}(t), the fluctuations of lnλ_{1}(t) exhibit an intermediate t^{1/3} regime, while the standardized distribution remains distinct from the canonical benchmark laws over the studied time range.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024116"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018341","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":"Burgers equation from nonthermal stationary states in nearly integrable gases.","authors":"Paweł Lisiak, Maciej Łebek, Miłosz Panfil","doi":"10.1103/shbc-ggbj","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/shbc-ggbj","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When a gas of particles interacts with much a larger reservoir the density dynamics on large scales is typically governed by diffusion. We study this paradigmatic problem for weakly coupled integrable systems and show that this picture gets altered when transport is investigated on top of long-lived nonthermal states. Remarkably, for states noninvariant under parity we find the Burgers equation arising in the hydrodynamic limit. We explicitly compute the diffusion constant and nonlinear advective coefficient of the Burgers equation using a variant of the Chapman-Enskog theory. We find an excellent agreement between our theory and numerical simulations of a simplified model of stochastic two-body collisions. Our conclusions are based only on Galilean invariance, existence of a small system-bath coupling parameter, and a small momentum exchange between the system and the bath particles during two-body scattering.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024115"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018323","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 molecular tilt in a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal with broken director-inversion symmetry.","authors":"Aitor Erkoreka, Mauricio Vera-Arévalo, Alberto Concellón, Sergio Diez-Berart, Jordi Sellarès, Adrià Gràcia-Condal, Ibon Alonso, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero","doi":"10.1103/hzwv-v29z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/hzwv-v29z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The origin of some mesophases of the ferroelectric nematic realm is not yet well understood. In this work, we study the highly polar liquid crystal MIO, a close structural analog of the prototypical ferroelectric nematogen DIO, which exhibits a ferroelectric smectic A to ferroelectric smectic C (SmA_{F}-SmC_{F}) phase transition. Calorimetric, dielectric, and light-scattering experiments reveal that it is a second-order phase transition with mean-field behavior and is driven by the softening of the tilt elastic constant accompanied by the divergence of the amplitude of the associated dielectric mode.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018328","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":"Bayesian approach for the network reconstruction of interdependent critical infrastructure systems from cascading failures.","authors":"MirSaleh Bahavarnia, Yu Wang, Jin-Zhu Yu, Hiba Baroud","doi":"10.1103/vswp-h4hx","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/vswp-h4hx","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analyzing the behavior of complex interdependent networks requires complete information about the network topology and the interdependent links across networks. For many applications, such as interdependent critical infrastructure (ICI) networks, understanding network interdependencies is crucial to anticipate cascading failures and mitigate the risk from disruptions. However, complete network data are often unavailable due to security concerns, and some important interdependent links are revealed only in the aftermath of a disruption. This study formulates and solves a network reconstruction problem to uncover uncertain network interdependencies during disruptions. We propose a scalable nonparametric Bayesian approach to reconstruct the topology of ICI networks from (observed) cascading failures. Metropolis-Hastings (M-H) algorithm coupled with the infrastructure-dependent proposal is employed to increase the efficiency of sampling possible graphs. Numerical results of reconstructing a synthetic system of ICI networks demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and computational time.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024308"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018281","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}
Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair, Yipeng Wu, Kenneth A Marsh, Apurva Gaikwad, Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Marcus Babzien, William Li, Mikhail Polyanskiy, Igor Pogorelsky, Chaojie Zhang, Chandrashekhar Joshi
{"title":"Ionization-seeded current filamentation in expanding plasma sheaths.","authors":"Audrey Farrell, Mitchell Sinclair, Yipeng Wu, Kenneth A Marsh, Apurva Gaikwad, Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Marcus Babzien, William Li, Mikhail Polyanskiy, Igor Pogorelsky, Chaojie Zhang, Chandrashekhar Joshi","doi":"10.1103/gk4q-v1rm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/gk4q-v1rm","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a seeding mechanism for the current filamentation instability that was identified using an experimental platform where a relativistically intense 2-ps (full width at half maximum) long-wavelength infrared pump laser both produces and interacts with a plasma that is overdense to the pump yet transparent to a near-infrared probe laser. This platform enables simultaneous high spatial resolution measurements of the self-generated magnetic filaments using Faraday rotation polarimetry and density filaments using interferometry. Supporting simulations show that the highly nonlinear dependence of the ionization rate on the local sheath electric field produced by pump-laser-heated hot electrons gives rise to 20-µm-scale filaments of cold electrons that form a return current, generating local azimuthal magnetic fields that can last for over 100 picoseconds.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025208"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018399","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":"Optical demonstration of an electric-field-induced tricritical point in a nematic liquid crystal with negative dielectric anisotropy.","authors":"Yoshinori Takikawa, Yuta Yamamoto, Taro Tamehiro, Makoto Ohno, Yuji Sasaki, Makoto Iwata, Tomoyuki Nagaya, Hiroshi Orihara","doi":"10.1103/dgmr-xvzt","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/dgmr-xvzt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Landau-de Gennes phenomenological theory predicts the existence of a tricritical point in nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy, at which the nematic-isotropic phase transition changes from first order to second order under a sufficiently strong electric field. In this study, we successfully demonstrated the existence of a tricritical point by measuring the transmitted light intensity near the nematic-isotropic phase boundary under an applied electric field using a polarizing microscope and a temperature-gradient cell that allows position-to-temperature mapping with high accuracy. Furthermore, we measured the response of the transmitted light intensity to a superimposed ac electric field, and discussed the results on the basis of the phenomenology.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025415"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018435","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":"Nonreciprocal dynamics with weak noise: Aperiodic \"Escher cycles\" and their quasipotential landscape.","authors":"Janik Schüttler, Robert L Jack, Michael E Cates","doi":"10.1103/slp9-rd27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/slp9-rd27","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We present an explicit construction of the Freidlin-Wentzell quasipotential of a stochastic system with two degrees of freedom and nonreciprocal interactions. This model undergoes noise-induced transitions between four metastable attractors, forming recurrent but aperiodic \"Escher cycles,\" similar to the cyclic nucleation dynamics observed in the nonreciprocal Ising model. We calculate the quasipotential analytically to first order in nonreciprocality. We characterize it along a one-dimensional reaction coordinate that connects the attractors, and we also obtain the full two-dimensional landscape, at leading order in perturbation theory. The resulting landscapes feature flat regions and extended plateaus, together with nondifferentiable switching lines. These singular structures arise from two geometric mechanisms: the handover of dominance between competing transition paths, and the competition between basins of attraction. The system provides a rare case where the geometry of nonequilibrium rare events can be fully resolved, and a simple analytically tractable example of a quasipotential in more than one coordinate that captures a rich set of nonequilibrium features.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024104"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018437","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}