Approach to network failure due to intrinsic fluctuationsA networked system can fail when most of its components are unable to support flux through the nodes and edges. As studied earlier this scenario can be triggered by an external perturbation such as…Shaunak Roy, Vimal Kishore, M. S. Santhanam·May 13, 2026SaveLearn
Irreversibility from Self-Reference: Gradient Flow and an H-Theorem for a Self-Referential Statistical Operator FrameworkThis paper is a direct companion to arXiv:2605.06705, where the self-referential operator Omega was introduced and the Tsallis index q = alpha + beta was derived as a fixed-point condition within the…Lucio Marassi·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Link length and energy fluctuations in extensible freely jointed chainsThe freely jointed chain is often applied to model the thermodynamics of single polymer chains, but the traditional formulation of the model lacks internal energy changes due to bond stretching. For…Michael R. Buche·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Critical Dynamics of Non-Reciprocally Coupled Conserved SystemsNon-reciprocal systems have been shown to sustain time-dependent patterns, most prominently travelling waves. The transition into these time-dependent states generally breaks time-translational…Emir Sezik, Gunnar Pruessner·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Negative Differential Heat Conductivity in a Harmonic Chain Coupled to a Particle ReservoirWhen coupling thermal baths at different temperatures, negative differential thermal conductivity is typically attributed to nonlinear interactions in the connecting medium. In this work, we…Simon Krekels, Christian Maes, Ion Santra et al.·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Anomaly, class division, and decoupling in income dynamicsEconomic inequality emerges from the interplay between regional growth-rate differences and the interaction network that couples regions. We propose a minimal income-dynamics model, where…Jaeseok Hur, Meesoon Ha, Hawoong Jeong·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Absorbing phase transitions with memory in critical scalingMany driven systems alternate between bursts of activity and quiescence and can become trapped in an absorbing state, such as complete inactivity in reaction-diffusion processes or extinction in…Kartik Chhajed, P. K. Mohanty·May 12, 2026SaveLearn
Statistical mechanics of the N-queens problemWe investigate the N-queens problem as a lattice gas -- a model in which N queens are placed on an N × N chessboard with pairwise repulsive interactions along shared rows, columns, and…Zong-Yue Liu, Hai-Jun Liao, Lei Wang·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Random-h Fractional-Dimensional Lattices Reveal Endpoint-Compressed Percolation Activation between Two and Three DimensionsNon-integer dimensionality is central to fractal and complex systems, yet it is rarely represented as an explicit lattice on which classical statistical-mechanical models can be directly simulated.…Ran Huang·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible Model with Mitigation on Scale-Free NetworksWe investigate infectious disease spreading on scale-free networks using a heterogeneous mean-field approach applied to the susceptible-infected-susceptible model, incorporating a mitigation factor.…João Gabriel Simões Delboni, M. O. Hase·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Collective Alignment in LLM Multi-Agent Systems: Disentangling Bias from Cooperation via Statistical PhysicsWe investigate the emergent collective dynamics of LLM-based multi-agent systems on a 2D square lattice and present a model-agnostic statistical-physics method to disentangle social conformity from…Cristiano De Nobili·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Renormalization of Quantum Operations: Parity-Time Transition and Chaotic FlowsThe renormalization group (RG) in statistical physics focuses on ground-state properties of equilibrium systems. However, it is unclear how it should be generalized to nonunitary quantum dynamics…Atsushi Oyaizu, Hongchao Li, Masaya Nakagawa et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Controlled Zeno-Induced Localization of Free Fermions in a Quasiperiodic ChainWe investigate measurement-induced localization in a continuously monitored one-dimensional Aubry--André--Harper model, focusing on the quantum Zeno regime in which the measurements dominate coherent…Pinaki Singha, Nilanjan Roy, Marcin Szyniszewski et al.·May 11, 2026SaveLearn
Equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of active matter systemsActive matter systems encompass both natural and artificially created systems consisting of numerous active particles. These particles actively consume energy to propel themselves or exert mechanical…Mintu Karmakar·May 10, 2026SaveLearn
Effective sextic field theory for tricritical-critical crossoverEffective field theories provide a suitable framework for both particle physics and statistical physics. We delve deeper into the study of the effective three-dimensional scalar field theory for its…Jose Gaite·May 10, 2026SaveLearn
Emergent critical phases of the Ashkin-Teller model on the Union-Jack LatticeThe Ashkin-Teller (AT) model is a classic spin model in statistical mechanics. For traditional homogeneous lattices like triangular and kagome lattices, even when frustration exists, the model only…Changzhi Zhao, Wanzhou Zhang, Yuan Huang et al.·May 10, 2026SaveLearn
Power spectral density of trajectories of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particlesThe power spectral density (PSD) is a central frequency-domain descriptor of stochastic processes. While PSDs have been studied for Brownian motion and a few anomalous diffusion processes, the…Yeongjin Kim, Gleb Oshanin, Jae-Hyung Jeon·May 10, 2026SaveLearn
Condensation Transition in Entropy-Constrained Probability SpacesProbability spaces are known to undergo a concentration of measure in high dimensions. In particular, if a K-dimensional probability distribution is sampled from a (K-1)-dimensional simplex with…Bautista Arenaza, Sebastián Risau-Gusman, Inés Samengo et al.·May 9, 2026SaveLearn
Sensitivity Analysis in the Face of Rare EventsMolecular motors and other complex nonequilibrium systems are controlled by large sets of design parameters, and optimizing those parameters requires computing sensitivities -- derivatives of…John Strahan, Todd R. Gingrich·May 9, 2026SaveLearn
Nonequilibrium Theory for Molecular Machine DesignModeling the dynamical flows on networks of biomolecular machines often entails computing node populations and edge fluxes with Master Equations and correlating machine performance with entropy…Ying-Jen Yang, Ken A. Dill·May 9, 2026SaveLearn
A Closer Look on the Influence of Constraints Upon the Optimization of the Nonadditive Entropic Functional SqThe thermal-equilibrium canonical distribution is currently obtained by maximizing the Boltzmann-Gibbs-von Neumann-Shannon entropy SBG(p)=kΣWi=1pi 1/pi constrained to…Leandro Lyra Braga Dognini, Constantino Tsallis·May 9, 2026SaveLearn
Thermalized buckling of extensible, semiflexible polymersThe Euler buckling of rods is a long-studied mechanical instability, and it remains relevant to this day, as the constituent components in many biological and physical systems are linear polymers,…Richard Huang, David R. Nelson, Suraj Shankar·May 9, 2026SaveLearn
Mirror transitions in diffusion with stochastic resetting confined on a ringDiffusion with an incorporated resetting mechanism provides a reference framework for modeling a wide range of natural phenomena. Within this framework, the optimal resetting rate is a key quantity…Pedro Julián-Salgado, Pavel Castro-Villarreal, Leonardo Dagdug et al.·May 8, 2026SaveLearn
Multiscale Structure of Eigenstate ThermalizationThe eigenstate thermalization hypothesis provides a framework for understanding thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems by characterizing statistical properties of local observables in…Pavel Orlov, Rustem Sharipov, Enej Ilievski·May 8, 2026SaveLearn
Mutual Linearity in Nonequilibrium Langevin DynamicsUnderstanding how nonequilibrium systems respond to perturbations is a central challenge in physics. In this work, we establish mutual linearity in nonequilibrium overdamped Langevin systems. This…Jiming Zheng, Zhiyue Lu·May 8, 2026SaveLearn