Decoherence-controlled collective criticality in a two-dimensional quantum Stag HuntPhysical decoherence can preserve the microscopic strategic neutrality (i.e. zero effective field and equal potential of the two homogeneous strategic orientations) of a quantum game while changing…Rajdeep Tah·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Optimal-work feedback on particles with activity --- gliding on active fluctuations using positional informationWe study the minimum-work feedback control of particles subject to active fluctuations. Considering an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle confined by a moving harmonic trap, we derive exact optimal…Lars Torbjørn Stutzer, Sarah A. M. Loos·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Survival in a partially reactive wedgeWe investigate the power-law decay of the survival probability of a Brownian particle diffusing in an infinite planar wedge whose two sides are partially reactive and described by Robin boundary…Denis S. Grebenkov·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Thermodynamic optimization of thermal landscapes and energy barriers in a Brownian heat engineSpatial temperature fields in Brownian heat engines are commonly prescribed a priori, and the resulting transport and thermodynamic properties are then calculated. Here we formulate the…Mesfin Taye·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Memory-driven Topological Defects and Unconventional Long-Range OrderWe investigate many-body systems with time-delayed self-interactions mediated by a memory-feedback mechanism. We show that such temporal interactions generate non-equilibrium orders and unique…Ziyang Ding, Zi Cai·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Branching stochastic mechanics: Relative localization and collective poles from Bohm/Fisher feedbackBranching stochastic mechanics (BSM) provides a reciprocal branching representation of the Schrödinger--Nagasawa pair. Its centered forward--backward kernel C FB= Eω[ψFψB] resolves…Benoit Bischoff, Eric Dumonteil·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Impedance in Periodically Driven Stochastic SystemsWe study the time-dependent currents arising in periodically driven stochastic systems. In the linear regime of small driving, a closed expression is obtained for the impedance/admittance associated…Bart Wijns, Branko Meeus, Jef Hooyberghs et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Effect of reactive targets on diffusive transport with intermittent restartsWe study search processes in a complex environment using the strategy of stochastic resetting. A common occurrence in these environments is targets with finite reactivity. Stochastic resetting has…Samali Ghosh, Suvam Pal, Dibakar Ghosh et al.·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Nonequilibrium corrections to conserved Ising criticality in scalar active matter: Ward identities, spectrum, and long crossoversWe identify the slowest-decaying nonequilibrium perturbations near the three-dimensional conserved Ising critical point and determine their impact on finite-size observables. We study two classes of…Piotr Zdybel·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Statistical Language Competition Model with Dynamic Edge Weighting on a Random NetworkThis paper presents a computational study of language competition dynamics on Erdős--Rényi random networks, extending the foundational Abrams--Strogatz model through two novel contributions: (i) a…Somyaranjan Chakra, Mohit Anand Madhesia, Shradha Mishra·Sep 2, 2026SaveLearn
Microscopic dynamics of contagion using active Brownian particles: universal scaling and propagation controlled by protectionUnderstanding how individual protection and population density influence epidemic spreading remains a central challenge in epidemiology. While classical compartmental models successfully describe the…Isela Sicarú Regalado-Alvarado, Francisco Alarcón·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Piston-Like Information Engine II: Boundary-Controlled Optimum in Active MatterInformation engines convert information into extractable work through measurements and feedback. We realize an engine that employs information to compress a gas of self-propelled bristle bots. Its…Laura Hoek, Neta Ben Ari, Rémi Goerlich et al.·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Pole-Zero Geometry, Model Reduction, and Identifiability in Sensory AdaptationSensory adaptation provides a concrete setting in which low-order system identification can fail qualitatively. We show that one fixed higher-order adaptive system composed entirely of real…Gunn Kim·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
An exact and fast solution of the inverse Regularized Optimal Transport problemOptimal transport describes the most efficient way to move mass between two distributions, given a cost matrix for moving mass between each pair of locations. Entropic optimal transport, solved via…Dario Mazzilli, Riccardo Piombo, Lorenzo Buffa et al.·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamical phase transitions for single particles in the semiclassical and weak noise limitsWe present a unifying description of dynamical phase transitions in the unitary evolution of an isolated quantum particle and the dissipative relaxation of a classical Brownian particle, based on a…Norayr Asriyan, Jan Meibohm, Vasco Cavina et al.·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Re-entrance or monotonic: How chemotaxis controls pattern formationWe investigate pattern formation in generic two-species reaction-diffusion systems with mutual chemotaxis. We show that tuning the chemotaxis strength can give rise to striking nonmonotonic variation…Mintu Karmakar, Abhik Basu·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Kibble--Zurek Mechanism and Defect Freezing in Imbalanced-Pairing Kitaev ModelsWe investigate driven dynamics across critical and exceptional points in the one- and two-dimensional imbalanced-pairing Kitaev models using both the wave-function normalization approach and the…R. Jafari, Alireza Akbari, Shukhrat Mardonov et al.·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
BKT-like Correlation Scaling and Twist Responses in a One-Dimensional Fractional U(1) Ginzburg--Landau ModelWe study a one-dimensional fractional U(1) Ginzburg--Landau model whose quadratic part has Fourier multiplier |k|σ, focusing on the marginal case σ=1. This dispersion yields logarithmic…Hitomi Endo, Michikazu Kobayashi·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Strengthened second law for periodic processesMany physical systems evolve under periodic driving: the same control protocol is applied again and again, even though the state of the system itself need not return to where it started after each…Jake Schaefer, Ben Ansbacher, Jan Korbel et al.·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Feedback-Enhanced Quantum Metrology and Clock Precision under Thermodynamic UncertaintyFeedback can convert continuously monitored quantum jumps into a thermodynamic resource. We formulate full counting statistics for open quantum systems under unital jump feedback by incorporating the…Jincheng Lu, Chen Wang·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Parafermions in plain sightWe show that for any potential with a discrete energy spectrum, the well-known interpolation between ideal boson and fermion partition functions at discrete values of ξ=-1/m yielded zero…Siu A. Chin, A. Chaudhary·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
On the relaxation problem in statistical mechanicsWe reformulate the relaxation problem in statistical mechanics by making explicit what are the operational objects subject to relaxation: the local time statistics of the recorded signal…Giuseppe Del Vecchio Del Vecchio·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
Inertia-Driven Information Flow and Symmetry Breaking in a Nonequilibrium Two-Bead SystemWe investigate information-flow generation in a nonequilibrium two-bead system coupled to two heat baths. We show that the system acts as an information-flow generator in both overdamped and…Jetin E. Thomas, Ramandeep S. Johal·Sep 1, 2026SaveLearn
A Human-AI Theorem Connecting Spontaneous and Field-Induced Mechanisms of Collective Behavior in One DimensionCan an artificial intelligence (AI) generate a scientific hypothesis outside a human collaborator's active hypothesis space (AHS), and can human-AI research be organized to make such…Weiguo Yin·Aug 31, 2026SaveLearn
Exact joint eigenvalue densities of non-Hermitian random matrices are Calogero scattering statesDetermining exact joint eigenvalue densities is central to random matrix theory. We solve this long-standing problem for non-Hermitian matrices with transposition symmetry (complex symmetric and…Zhenyu Xiao, Ze Chen, Shinsei Ryu·Aug 31, 2026SaveLearn