{"title":"In-phase and antiphase synchronization of undulatory swimmers in the inertial regime.","authors":"Zichen Liu, Bowen Zhu, Gaojin Li","doi":"10.1103/gt7n-8jtk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/gt7n-8jtk","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Synchronized locomotion of undulatory swimmers occurs ubiquitously in nature, ranging from microorganisms such as sperms to larger aquatic animals such as eels and knifefish. To develop a unified understanding of this phenomenon, we use Taylor's two-dimensional infinitely long undulatory sheet model to study the side-by-side locomotion of two swimmers at nonzero Reynolds numbers. Our quasi-steady-state analysis of the far-field hydrodynamics demonstrates that fluid inertia causes the swimmers to reach a stable antiphase synchronized state. Numerical simulations confirm this result for two swimmers separated by a relatively large gap distance. However, when the distance falls below a critical value, the two swimmers settle into a stable in-phase state. The antiphase configuration increases the coswimming speed, the power expenditure, as well as the energy efficiency of both swimmers.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761982","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":"Input-dependence in quantum reservoir computing.","authors":"Rodrigo Martínez-Peña, Juan-Pablo Ortega","doi":"10.1103/3775-4hfd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/3775-4hfd","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Quantum reservoir computing is an emergent field in which quantum dynamical systems are exploited for temporal information processing. Previous work found a feature that makes a quantum reservoir valuable: contractive dynamics of the quantum reservoir channel toward input-dependent fixed points. These results are enhanced in this paper by finding conditions that guarantee a crucial aspect of the reservoir's design: distinguishing between different input sequences to ensure a faithful representation of temporal input data. This is implemented by finding a condition that guarantees injectivity in reservoir computing filters, with a special emphasis on the quantum case. We provide several examples and focus on a family of quantum reservoirs that is much used in the literature; it consists of an input-encoding quantum channel followed by a strictly contractive channel that enforces the echo state and the fading memory properties. This work contributes to analyzing valuable quantum reservoirs in terms of their input-dependence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065306"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761983","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 : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065205
Santu Luo, Dingxin Liu, Wang Xi, Renwu Zhou, Mingyan Zhang, Rusen Zhou, Xiaohua Wang, Mingzhe Rong, Kostya Ken Ostrikov
{"title":"Mechanistic insights into air discharge mode transition: Revealing the indispensible roles of N_{2}(v) and N_{2}O_{5}.","authors":"Santu Luo, Dingxin Liu, Wang Xi, Renwu Zhou, Mingyan Zhang, Rusen Zhou, Xiaohua Wang, Mingzhe Rong, Kostya Ken Ostrikov","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065205","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The phenomenon of discharge mode transition in air plasmas, which refers to the selective production of reactive species under different external conditions, has been a longstanding issue and has regained major attention recently due to emerging plasma applications. In this letter, we present a novel kinetic model that incorporates both vibrational N_{2} kinetics and N_{2}O_{5} dissociation reactions in plasma chemistry. This model describes the experimental results of discharge mode transition self-consistently, which has not been achieved before. It is found that both power- and temperature-triggered discharge mode transitions are directly induced by the enhanced recombination of NO and NO_{2} to quench O and O_{3}. Two distinct pathways for NO and NO_{2} production are identified: high discharge powers sustaining the excitation of N_{2} to high vibrational levels and elevated gas temperature accelerating N_{2}O_{5} dissociation. Essentially, both species are indispensable for enabling discharge mode transition, as their absence leads to significant deviations in transition dynamics. These results explain the origin and kinetics of discharge mode transition and contribute to further advancing plasma applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065205"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761990","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 : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065404
Ph Germain, A Ayadim, S Amokrane
{"title":"Modeling colloidal interactions using structural data: Insights from coated silica dispersions.","authors":"Ph Germain, A Ayadim, S Amokrane","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065404","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some questions raised by the modeling of the interactions between colloids using scattering data are examined. After a brief overview of the predictions and limitations of the basic potentials with short-range attraction, we first analyze recent data on coated silica dispersions, using a model with short-ranged repulsion and an improved treatment of the short-ranged attraction. We discuss in particular the unicity of the potential extracted from the structural data, the state dependence of the fitting parameters and their link with the characteristics of the particles, the effect of the particle size, and the density and temperature in pure components and in mixtures. The analysis of the data in the silica dispersions is next confronted with charged colloids and star polymers. Based on the prediction for the position of the main peak of the scattering intensity in six dispersions at different state points, the possible role of many-body effects in the scattering intensity is confirmed. Finally, the use of gelation data for refining the potential extraction is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065404"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761993","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 : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065201
Ajaz Mir, Pintu Bandyopadhyay, Madhurima Choudhury, Krishan Kumar, Abhijit Sen
{"title":"Modeling of experimentally observed two-dimensional precursor solitons in a dusty plasma by the forced Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.","authors":"Ajaz Mir, Pintu Bandyopadhyay, Madhurima Choudhury, Krishan Kumar, Abhijit Sen","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We compare model solutions of a forced Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (fKP) equation with experimental observations of dust acoustic precursor solitons excited by a supersonically moving charged cylindrical object in a dusty plasma medium. The fKP equation is derived from a three-fluid-Poisson model of the dusty plasma using the reductive perturbation technique and numerically solved for parameters close to the experimental investigations of cylindrical precursor solitons. The fKP model solutions show excellent agreement with the experimental results in reproducing the prominent geometric features of the two-dimensional solitons and closely matching the quantitative values of their velocities, amplitudes, and temporal evolutions. Our findings suggest that the fKP equation can serve as a very realistic model to investigate the dynamics of precursor solitons and can be usefully employed in practical applications such as space debris detection and tracking techniques that are based on observing/predicting nonlinear plasma excitations induced by the debris in the ionosphere.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065201"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761994","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":"Oscillatory sound pulses, with or without axial angular momentum, localized in space and time.","authors":"John Lekner","doi":"10.1103/gt6g-vqfd","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/gt6g-vqfd","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Results are given for the exact energy and momentum of a family of oscillatory pulses. The pulses are characterized by a length a and a dominant wave number K. Pulses with angular momentum about the direction of propagation are also discussed. The total energy, momentum, and angular momentum of all pulses are simply expressed as integrals over a wave-number weight function, and evaluated explicitly for the Ka family. For large Ka the speed of sound times the net momentum tends to the total energy from below.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065505"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144762010","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 : 2025-06-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065406
E J Janse van Rensburg, E Orlandini, M C Tesi
{"title":"Relative knot probabilities in confined lattice polygons.","authors":"E J Janse van Rensburg, E Orlandini, M C Tesi","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.065406","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper we examine the relative knotting probabilities in a lattice model of ring polymers confined in a cavity. The model is of a lattice knot of size n in the cubic lattice, confined to a cube of side length L and with volume V=(L+1)^{3} sites. We use Monte Carlo algorithms to estimate approximately the number of conformations of lattice knots in the confining cube. If p_{n,L}(K) is the number of conformations of a lattice polygon of length n and knot type K in a cube of volume L^{3}, then the relative knotting probability of a lattice polygon to have knot type K, relative to the probability that the polygon is the unknot (the trivial knot, denoted by 0_{1}), is ρ_{n,L}(K/0_{1})=p_{n,L}(K)/p_{n,L}(0_{1}). We determine ρ_{n,L}(K/0_{1}) for various knot types K up to six crossing knots. Our data show that these relative knotting probabilities are small over a wide range of the concentration φ=n/V of monomers for values of L≤12 so that the model is dominated by unknotted lattice polygons. Moreover, the relative knot probability increases with φ along a curve that flattens as the Hamiltonian state is approached.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144762016","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":"Dependencies of liquid-gel phase transition temperature and area per lipid on lipid type: Analytic theory.","authors":"Boris Kheyfets, Sergei Mukhin","doi":"10.1103/f761-wf13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/f761-wf13","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Available experimental data for a single component lipid bilayer reveal opposite dependencies on the lipid structure of two important parameters: mean area per lipid and main phase transition temperature. The mean area per lipid increases with lipid head size or tails unsaturation, and decreases with the number of hydrocarbon groups per tail. The main phase transition temperature changes reversely: it decreases with lipid head size, or tails unsaturation, and increases with the number of hydrocarbon groups per tail. In this paper we derive these effects theoretically from the flexible strings model of lipid bilayer previously introduced by the authors. The model describes a single component lipid bilayer by considering a single lipid in an entropic repulsive mean field created by its neighbors. Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) is used as a reference lipid: particular changes are computed by considering deviations of parameters from their DPPC values.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-1","pages":"064413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761862","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":"Amplification of Laguerre-Gaussian laser pulses in plasma by copropagating Gaussian pulses.","authors":"Guoqing Yang, Min Chen, Xiaobo Zhang, Huanyu Song, Suming Weng, Ping Li, Tongpu Yu, Zhengming Sheng","doi":"10.1103/vq6d-z5xm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/vq6d-z5xm","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) laser beams have many interesting applications due to their unique field structure. However, the generation of intense LG beams remains challenging because of the limited damage threshold of intensity for optical elements used for the conversion from normal Gaussian beams to LG beams. Here, we propose a plasma-based scheme to amplify a LG pulse through energy transfer from copropagating multiple Gaussian pulses as pumps. It is found that efficient energy transfer can be realized by properly choosing the relative phase difference between the LG pulse and the Gaussian pulses, where the intensity of the LG pulse can be enhanced by nearly two orders of magnitude. This scheme works for either weakly or highly relativistic intense lasers, as well as for LG pulses with different topological charges. Furthermore, the properties of the amplified LG pulse can be manipulated by controlling the Gaussian pulses, such as the pump laser beam number, laser intensity, and propagation direction. Our studies provide a way of using plasma optics to amplify LG lasers to relativistic high intensity and manipulate their spatial structure for applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-2","pages":"065211"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761884","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":"Droneflies combine passive and active wing pitch modulation under unilateral wing damage.","authors":"Jinjing Hao, Jianghao Wu, Jiedong Guo, Yanlai Zhang","doi":"10.1103/l1nq-c42k","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/l1nq-c42k","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The remarkable flight capabilities of insects stem from the subtle modulation of their wing kinematics. Dipteran insects can beat their wings hundreds of times per second, with each wing reversing its pitch direction twice per wingbeat. However, the neural signals hardly match up to such high frequencies, making it interesting to consider how insects regulate wing pitch in a timely manner. In this study, we investigate this problem through observations and simulations involving droneflies. Wing kinematics modulation is induced by imposing unilateral wing damage and recorded by high-speed videography. In tethered flight, the wing pitches passively without mechanical feedback, creating an imbalanced roll moment, which can be overcome by active actuation in free hover. Simulations, based on the torsional spring passive pitching model, suggest that insects modulate wing pitch through the coupling of aerodynamic, inertial, and wing hinge elastic forces. The model predicts the trend of wing pitch subjected to wing area loss as the observation and achieves a similar control effect of balancing roll moment with a slight adjustment to spring parameters. Based on these results, we show that insects combine passive and active mechanisms for wing pitch modulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 6-1","pages":"064414"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761890","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}