Yaohui Gu, Yuhui Hu, Binbo Li, Linyang Jiang, Patrick Kluth, Wengtao Wang, Jie Liu, Jinglai Duan
{"title":"Anisotropic atomic displacement drives morphological transformation of adjacent ion tracks in polyimide.","authors":"Yaohui Gu, Yuhui Hu, Binbo Li, Linyang Jiang, Patrick Kluth, Wengtao Wang, Jie Liu, Jinglai Duan","doi":"10.1103/5xfm-15f4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/5xfm-15f4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Deciphering the formation mechanism and fine structures of ion tracks in polymers is crucial for understanding ion-matter interactions and exploring new applications, particularly when they are in proximity. Here, two sequentially generated and closely spaced ion tracks in polyimide are investigated at the atomic scale. We reveal that the occurrence of the first track breaks the cylindrical symmetry of transverse atomic displacement during the second track formation, leading to non-uniformity in track size and deformed shape that significantly deviates from the well-recognized core-halo concentric structure of an isolated track. More interestingly, this anisotropic atomic displacement induces a low-density region between two tracks. This region is fundamentally different from the isolated track cores, where mass loss occurs primarily through radiolytic outgassing. Mechanistic analysis further discloses that these direction-dependent atomic displacement dynamics are driven by the distinct chemical and mechanical responses of the pre-existing track and bulk material to ion energy deposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025428"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018721","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":"Anomalous phonon dispersion near yielding in athermal crystals.","authors":"Fumiaki Nakai, Michio Otsuki, Kuniyasu Saitoh, Hiroaki Katsuragi","doi":"10.1103/3lnj-1ml1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/3lnj-1ml1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vibrational properties of ordered athermal solids near yielding remain poorly understood. We show that yielding in a sheared crystal is governed not by a single localized instability but by directionally extended multimode softening that forms a cross-shaped low-frequency region in wave number space. Near yielding, the acoustic dispersion ω∼k is replaced by ω∼k^{2} along the soft direction, and the vibrational density of states crosses over from Debye to non-Debye scaling, with a diverging length scale. We analytically derive these scaling laws.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018705","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}
Nikolai Lebovka, Leonid A Bulavin, Nikolai Vygornitskii
{"title":"Antagonistic model of random sequential adsorption of two-species discorectangles.","authors":"Nikolai Lebovka, Leonid A Bulavin, Nikolai Vygornitskii","doi":"10.1103/9gy6-2d3b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/9gy6-2d3b","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An antagonistic random sequential adsorption (RSA) model is investigated to describe competitive adsorption on an adsorbent surface by particles of two types, a and b. The degree of competition is characterized by the probability p_{a}(p_{b}=1-p_{a}) that an arriving particle is of type a. Particles of both types are modeled as discorectangles with aspect ratio ɛ=l/d, where l and d denote the particle length and thickness, respectively. Each particle is surrounded by a shell of thickness δ, which induces repulsive interactions between particles of opposite types. This repulsion leads to the spontaneous formation of clusters consisting of particles of a single type, separated from clusters of the opposite type by cavities of thickness approximately 2δ. The mechanisms governing the formation of the adsorption layer and the resulting jamming coverage are analyzed. In addition, the dependence of the shell percolation threshold, δ_{c}, on the probability p_{a} is examined for different values of the shell thickness δ and the aspect ratio ɛ.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025501"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018675","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}
Elizabeth Gregorio, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, Anthony Herrel
{"title":"Turning without fins: Quantifying the distinct kinematics and vortex dynamics of maneuvering swimming snakes.","authors":"Elizabeth Gregorio, Ramiro Godoy-Diana, Anthony Herrel","doi":"10.1103/c57h-kx57","DOIUrl":"10.1103/c57h-kx57","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The agile turning maneuvers of anguilliform swimmers remain one of the least studied aspects of aquatic locomotion, despite being crucial for survival in underwater environments. To change direction, animals must find a balance between minimizing their moment of inertia and maximizing torque. Anguilliform swimmers, like snakes, are highly maneuverable and accomplish this goal without the aid of limbs or pectoral fins. In this study, we quantify the differences between turning and forward swimming kinematics and hydrodynamics. We present flow field and body deformation measurements taken simultaneously by combining a volumetric three-component defocusing digital particle-tracking velocimetry system with a camera mounted above the tank for swimming kinematics. We determine how snakes manipulate their body position to change swimming direction by analyzing the swimming kinematics of six turns by six individuals as 2D projections (five Natrix maura and one Nerodia rhombifer). Analyses of the body kinematics show that snakes curl their body inwards to shift their center of mass and reduce their moment of inertia to perform faster turns. The volumetric wake measurements allow us to quantify the timing between the turning kinematics and vortex shedding and to compare it with forward swimming measurements. Our results indicate that snakes can generate substantially stronger vortices when turning; for example, the vortex force can be as much as 2.5-8.6× larger when compared to forward swimming. We also use volumetric wake measurements to show that the vortices shed during a turn have the same tubular vortex pair composition as forward swimming. These results help explain how elongated anguilliform swimmers change swimming direction. They widen our understanding of how animals use transient maneuvers to navigate aquatic environments, with implications for both natural swimmers and underwater robots.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018575","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":"General thermodynamic approach for diffusion on a lattice.","authors":"M A Di Muro, M Hoyuelos","doi":"10.1103/p8qx-8ym2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/p8qx-8ym2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work presents a general thermodynamic approach to describe particle diffusion on a lattice, a model used to study transport processes in solids and on surfaces. By treating each lattice site as an open thermodynamic system, the effects of microscopic particle interactions are represented through the chemical potential. A fundamental relationship between the Onsager matrix (L) and its ideal-system counterpart (L_{id}, where interactions are neglected) using the determinant of the covariance matrix is demonstrated. This framework allows for the calculation of transport coefficients using the combination of their ideal values and thermodynamic properties. The general result is successfully applied to reproduce the Darken equation for substitutional diffusion in solids and to derive the nondiagonal diffusion matrix of the Zhdanov model for surface diffusion of Langmuir particles. In the last case, analytical predictions are further validated through numerical simulations across various interaction potentials.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024152"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149017471","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":"Matrix thermodynamic uncertainty relation for non-Abelian charge transport.","authors":"Domingos S P Salazar","doi":"10.1103/q2yg-rp7q","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/q2yg-rp7q","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) bound current precision by entropy production, but transport of noncommuting (non-Abelian) charges lacks a single joint classical record of all current components. We derive an operational, process-level matrix TUR for this setting from the entropy production Σ=D(ρ_{SE}^{'}∥ρ_{S}^{'}⊗ρ_{E}). Isolating the bath divergence D_{bath}=D(ρ_{E}^{'}∥ρ_{E}), we prove a fully nonlinear, saturable lower bound valid for arbitrary current vectors Δq: D_{bath}≥B(Δq,V,V^{'}), where the bound depends only on the transported-charge signal Δq and on the pre- and postcollision covariance matrices V and V^{'} reconstructed from separate probe measurement settings. In the small-fluctuation regime D_{bath}≥1/2Δq^{T}V^{-1}Δq+O(∥Δq∥^{4}), while beyond linear response the full integral bound remains valid. Numerical strong-coupling qubit collisions illustrate the bound and its near-saturation using only local measurements on the bath probe.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2","pages":"L022106"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018236","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":"Large deviation properties of minimum spanning trees for random graphs.","authors":"Mahdi Sarikhani, Alexander K Hartmann","doi":"10.1103/xc5g-t9dj","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/xc5g-t9dj","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the large-deviation properties of minimum spanning trees for two ensembles of random graphs with N nodes. First, we consider complete graphs. Second, we study Erdős-Rényi (ER) random graphs with edge probability p=c/N conditioned on being connected. By using large-deviation Markov-chain sampling, we can obtain the distribution P(W) of the spanning-tree weight W down to probability densities as small as 10^{-300}. For the complete graph, we confirm analytical predictions with respect to the expectation value. For both ensembles, the large-deviation principle is fulfilled. For the connected ER graphs, we observe a remarkable change of the distributions at the value of c=1, which is the percolation threshold for the original ER ensemble.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018356","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":"From Colebrook-White roughness to Nikuradse sand grains: A multiscale momentum-transfer model for turbulent friction over rough surfaces.","authors":"Chien-Chia Liu, Jui-Yin Lin","doi":"10.1103/xs83-z5nk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/xs83-z5nk","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wall roughness plays a central role in determining turbulent friction in pipe flows, yet most predictive frameworks continue to characterize the wall by a single effective roughness scale. Classical datasets-notably Nikuradse's sand-grain experiments and the rough-pipe measurements of Colebrook and White-demonstrate that this description is incomplete: surfaces with comparable nominal roughness heights can exhibit markedly different friction curves, including branch splitting and multiregime behavior. Reexamining the Colebrook-White experiments, we identify clear evidence of multiscale additivity, whereby the contribution of a smaller roughness scale enters once it becomes dynamically accessible and increases approximately linearly with its areal coverage. Motivated by this observation, we develop a multiscale extension of the Gioia-Chakraborty momentum-transfer framework in which roughness elements at distinct geometric scales contribute additive increments to the total friction. In the model, each scale becomes dynamically active when its height exceeds a Reynolds-number-dependent viscous cutoff proportional to the Kolmogorov length, while its contribution is weighted by a scale-dependent coefficient representing the geometric prominence of that roughness scale. This construction generalizes the original scale-selection mechanism by allowing multiple roughness scales to participate concurrently in outer-layer momentum transfer. The resulting framework provides a unified and continuous description connecting the classical roughness-dominated Nikuradse-Strickler regime, Colebrook-White-type trends at intermediate roughness, and smooth-wall behavior. For the applications considered here, however, the model coefficients are not uniquely determined from surface properties and are selected in a data-guided manner; establishing a quantitative mapping from measured surface topography to these coefficients remains an open problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-2","pages":"025109"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018362","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":"Thermodynamic geometry of friction on graphs: Resistance, commute times, and optimal transport.","authors":"Jordan R Sawchuk, David A Sivak","doi":"10.1103/bhr1-lplt","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/bhr1-lplt","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We demonstrate that the thermodynamic friction metric governing dissipation in slowly driven continuous-time Markov chains is equivalent to the commute-time embedding and the resistance distance. This equivalence yields complementary insights: The commute-time embedding demonstrates the intrinsic cost of transporting probability across dynamical bottlenecks, while the resistance distance maps thermodynamic dissipation to Joule heating in an electrical network. We further demonstrate that the linear-response thermodynamic distance is a discrete L^{2}-Wasserstein optimal transport cost evaluated along paths of equilibrium distributions, extending a continuous-state correspondence to discrete networks. This conceptual synthesis of linear-response thermodynamics, random walks on graphs, electrical circuits, and optimal-transport theory connects independently developed geometric frameworks, reduces complex metric calculations to simple circuit algebra, and provides a clear physical picture of dissipation as the energetic cost of routing probability through the state space network.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2","pages":"L022105"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018312","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}
Jinbo Hu, Hong Yuan, Letian Chen, Nan Zhao, C P Sun
{"title":"Experimental verification of the optimal fingerprint method in a spin resonance system: Implications for complex systems.","authors":"Jinbo Hu, Hong Yuan, Letian Chen, Nan Zhao, C P Sun","doi":"10.1103/nr53-d86d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/nr53-d86d","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The optimal fingerprint method (OFM) serves as a potent approach for detecting and attributing climate change. However, direct experimental validation remains challenging due to the system's inherent complexity. Here we experimentally validate this method using a precisely controlled magnetic resonance system of spins, which serves as a minimal physical analog of forced noise response. Based on linear response theory (LRT), we derived the system's Green's function from spin projection noise measurements and successfully applied it to attribute the magnetic fields, yielding excellent agreement with predictions. Furthermore, our measurements confirm the existence of an optimal detection direction that maximizes the signal-to-noise ratio, a key theoretical prediction underlying the OFM. This work serves as a laboratory demonstration of LRT and OFM in detection and attribution studies, aiming to connect theoretical models with experimental observations. These findings may provide useful references for climate change science and its broader interdisciplinary applications in ecosystems, finance, social sciences, quantum sensing, and other fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"114 2-1","pages":"024220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149018428","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}