Physical Review EPub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024107
Gabriel Artur Weiderpass, Mayur Sharma, Savdeep Sethi
{"title":"Solving the kinetic Ising model with nonreciprocity.","authors":"Gabriel Artur Weiderpass, Mayur Sharma, Savdeep Sethi","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nonreciprocal interactions are a generic feature of nonequilibrium systems. We define a nonreciprocal generalization of the kinetic Ising model in one spatial dimension. We solve the model exactly using two different approaches for infinite, semi-infinite, and finite systems with either periodic or open boundary conditions. The exact solution allows us to explore a range of novel phenomena tied to nonreciprocity like nonreciprocity induced frustration and wave phenomena with interesting parity-dependence for finite systems of size N. We study dynamical questions like the approach to equilibrium with various boundary conditions. We find different regimes, separated by Nth-order exceptional points, which can be classified as overdamped, underdamped, or critically damped phases. Despite these different regimes, long-time order is only present at zero temperature. Additionally, we explore the low-energy behavior of the system in various limits, including the aging and spatiotemporal Porod regimes, demonstrating that nonreciprocity induces unique scaling behavior at zero temperature. Lastly, we present general results for systems where spins interact with no more than two spins, outlining the conditions under which long-time order may exist.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659268","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025402
Rajratan Basu
{"title":"Reduced ionic effects and enhanced spontaneous polarization in a ferroelectric liquid crystal device employing a two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride planar-alignment agent.","authors":"Rajratan Basu","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The presence of excess free-ion impurities in ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) results in several issues in electro-optical liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), such as slow electro-optical responses and image-sticking effects. This study experimentally demonstrated that two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) nanosheets can function as both planar alignment and ion-capturing agents in an electro-optic FLC device. The 2D h-BN nanosheet was used as a planar alignment agent on one side of an LC cell, while a standard planar-aligning polyimide (PI) layer was used on the other side of the cell. The FLC exhibited uniform planar alignment in this h-BN-PI cell configuration. The results showed that free-ion impurities in the FLC were significantly suppressed in the h-BN-PI cell compared to a standard PI-PI LC cell. This reduction in free-ion density in the h-BN-PI cell was attributed to the ion-capturing capability of the 2D h-BN nanosheets. Consequently, the reduction of ionic impurities led to enhanced effective spontaneous polarization and accelerated electro-optic response of the FLC in the h-BN-based cell.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-2","pages":"025402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659373","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024311
Thomas Tunstall
{"title":"How social network structure impacts the ability of zealots to promote weak opinions.","authors":"Thomas Tunstall","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024311","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social networks are often permeated by agents who promote their opinions without allowing for their own mind to be changed. Understanding how these so-called \"zealots\" act to increase the prevalence of their promoted opinion over the network is important for understanding opinion dynamics. In this work, we consider these promoted opinions to be \"weak\" and therefore less likely to be accepted relative to the default opinion in the network. We show how the proportion of zealots in the network, the relative strength of the weak opinion, and the structure of the network impact the long-term proportion of those in the network who subscribe to the weak opinion.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024311"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659185","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024144
E Di Bernardo, J M Brader
{"title":"Asymptotic methods for confined fluids.","authors":"E Di Bernardo, J M Brader","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The thermodynamics and microstructure of confined fluids with small particle number are best described using the canonical ensemble. However, practical calculations can usually only be performed in the grand-canonical ensemble, which can introduce unphysical artifacts. We employ the method of asymptotics to transform grand-canonical observables to the canonical ensemble, where the former can be conveniently obtained using the classical density functional theory of inhomogeneous fluids. By formulating the ensemble transformation as a contour integral in the complex fugacity plane we reveal the influence of the Yang-Lee zeros in determining the form and convergence properties of the asymptotic series. The theory is employed to develop expansions for the canonical partition function and the canonical one-body density. Numerical investigations are then performed using an exactly soluble one-dimensional model system of hard rods.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659430","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":"Data-driven discovery of self-similarity using neural networks.","authors":"Ryota Watanabe, Takanori Ishii, Yuji Hirono, Hirokazu Maruoka","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Finding self-similarity is a key step for understanding the governing law behind complex physical phenomena. Traditional methods for identifying self-similarity often rely on specific models, which can introduce significant bias. In this paper, we present a neural network-based approach that discovers self-similarity directly from observed data, without presupposing any models. The presence of self-similar solutions in a physical problem signals that the governing law contains a function whose arguments are given by power-law monomials of physical parameters, which are characterized by power-law exponents. The basic idea is to enforce such particular forms structurally in a neural network in a parametrized way. We train the neural network model using the observed data, and when the training is successful, we can extract the power exponents that characterize scale-transformation symmetries of the physical problem. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with both synthetic and experimental data, validating its potential as a robust, model-independent tool for exploring self-similarity in complex systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659539","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025410
Qi Huang, Kaiguo Chen, Chen Liu, Guisen Liu, Yang Shao, Chenlong Zhao, Ran Chen, Hengtong Bu, Lingti Kong, Yao Shen
{"title":"Strain-dependent evolution of avalanche dynamics in bulk metallic glass.","authors":"Qi Huang, Kaiguo Chen, Chen Liu, Guisen Liu, Yang Shao, Chenlong Zhao, Ran Chen, Hengtong Bu, Lingti Kong, Yao Shen","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Avalanche phenomena characterized by power-law scaling are observed in amorphous solids and many other nonequilibrium systems during their deformation. Avalanches in these systems often exhibit scale invariance, a feature reminiscent of critical phenomena and universality classes, although their fundamental nature remains unclear. In this paper, we use in situ acoustic emission techniques to experimentally investigate the characteristics and evolution of avalanches during the deformation process of bulk metallic glass (BMG), a representative amorphous solid. We observed abundant avalanche events from the microplastic deformation region to the failure of the sample. We find that avalanches are power-law distributed with an exponent decreasing from 1.61 to 1.49 with increasing deformation throughout the tensile experiment. By quantitatively analyzing the strong strain dependence of various avalanche characteristics, we highlight the importance of additional coefficients that complete the widely studied finite size scaling description of avalanche dynamics and revealed a strain-mediated avalanche scaling mechanism. Through surface morphology analysis and spectral analysis of avalanche signals in BMG samples, we conclude that the underlying process of these avalanches are not macroscopic, such as cracks and large shear band propagation, but is instead related to nanoscale microstructural adjustments. Our results encourage further exploration into the microscopic origins of avalanches and suggest that theoretical frameworks beyond finite-size scaling merit more in-depth investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-2","pages":"025410"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659444","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024122
Wei Lin, Weicheng Fu, Zhen Wang, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhao
{"title":"Universality classes of thermalization and energy diffusion.","authors":"Wei Lin, Weicheng Fu, Zhen Wang, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhao","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we show that classical lattices can be classified into two universality classes for thermalization, based solely on the properties of their eigenmodes. This discovery is a consequence of our systematic multiwave quasiresonance analysis, a tool developed to this end. Lattices with extended modes belong to one class that can thermalize within a finite time, even when the nonlinearity strength is very weak, provided the system size is sufficiently large. In contrast, lattices with purely localized modes fall into another class. For these systems, the scaling behavior of thermalization time shifts stepwise from low-order to progressively higher-order quasiresonances as nonlinear strength decreases, implying that thermalization may become unattainable within a reasonable time for sufficiently weak nonlinearity strength. Furthermore, we show that the real-space energy diffusion behavior of the two classes is qualitatively different as well.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024122"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657939","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 : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024212
Juan C Vallejo, Alexandre R Nieto, Jesús M Seoane, Miguel A F Sanjuán
{"title":"Fast and slow escapes in forced chaotic scattering: The Newtonian and the relativistic regimes.","authors":"Juan C Vallejo, Alexandre R Nieto, Jesús M Seoane, Miguel A F Sanjuán","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.024212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study chaotic scattering phenomena in the paradigmatic Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian when a rotating external force is applied. This analysis builds on and extends our previous work on the relativistic unperturbed case and the classical case with equal forcing terms affecting the equations of motion. In this more realistic scenario with a rotating external forcing, we compare the results obtained in the classical energy regime with those in the relativistic regime. Our comparison focuses on the analysis of the exit basins, as well as resonant and trapping phenomena, which correspond to fast and slow escape times, respectively. In addition to the dependence on the particle energy E, we also investigate the system's behavior at both low and high perturbing frequencies ω. Notably, when the particles are in the relativistic regime, we observe a shift in the evolution of the resonant frequency as a function of both E and ω.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2-1","pages":"024212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143658826","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":"Diffusion reconstruction for the diluted Ising model.","authors":"Stefano Bae, Enzo Marinari, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L023301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.L023301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diffusion-based generative models are machine learning models that use diffusion processes to learn the probability distribution of high-dimensional data. In recent years they have become extremely successful in generating multimedia content. However, it is still unknown whether such models can be used to generate high-quality datasets of physical models. In this work we use a Landau-Ginzburg-like diffusion model to infer the distribution of a two-dimensional bond-diluted Ising model. Our approach is simple and effective, and we show that the generated samples correctly reproduce the statistical and critical properties of the physical model.</p>","PeriodicalId":48698,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review E","volume":"111 2","pages":"L023301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143659151","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}