Information-Geometric Signatures of Nonconservative DrivingWe propose an information-geometric signature of nonconservative driving that detects violations of detailed balance using the Kullback--Leibler divergence and the Fisher information. For Markov jump…Andrea Auconi, Sosuke Ito·May 5, 2026SaveLearn
Optimal Navigation in Stochastic and Disordered GridworldsNavigation in complex and noisy environments is a key issue in diverse fields from biology to engineering. Despite extensive progress in numerical optimization methods for computing navigation…Kévin Bilaï Biloa, Olivier Pierre-Louis·May 5, 2026SaveLearn
Resetting-induced instability in queues fed by a search process in an intervalProper management of resources whose arrival and consumption are subject to environmental randomness is an intrinsic process in both natural and artificial systems. This phenomenon can be modeled as…José Giral-Barajas, Paul C. Bressloff·May 5, 2026SaveLearn
A general thermodynamic approach for diffusion on a latticeThis 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…Matías A. Di Muro, Miguel Hoyuelos·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Universal criticality of entropy production in chemical reaction networksStochastic thermodynamics gives universal relations for microscopic entropy production, yet its critical behavior at macroscopic nonequilibrium transitions remains unclassified. We study well-mixed…Kyota Tamano, Keiji Saito·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation theorem driven by a time-dependent electric fieldFluctuation theorems are key to understanding both fundamental and applied aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems. We study the non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation…K. S. Rodríguez-Vigil, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, J. I. Jiménez-Aquino·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Exact Microcanonical Formulation and Thermodynamics of Equispaced Finite-Level SystemsWe present an exact microcanonical formulation, in the thermodynamic limit, for a system of N noninteracting particles with p equally spaced energy levels \0,ε,2ε,…,(p-1)ε\. Writing the…J. Ricardo de Sousa·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Topological defects in out-of-equilibrium systemsIn this PhD thesis, we study topological defects in two-dimensional non-equilibrium systems, focusing on active extensions of the XY model, including activity, mobility and non-reciprocity. In a…Ylann Rouzaire·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Stochastic first-passage modeling of single-event burnout in SiC power MOSFETsSingle-event burnout (SEB) in silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFETs is often characterized by deterministic threshold quantities. Near the boundary between recovery and runaway, stochastic variability…Feiyi Liu, Min Guo, Shiyang Chen et al.·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Aging Record Statistics in Saturating Self-Interacting Random WalksThe record age tauk, defined as the time between the k-th and k+1-st record-breaking events, is a central observable of extreme-value statistics. In Markovian processes, the absence of memory makes…J. Brémont, R. Voituriez, O. Bénichou·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Mobility Anisotropy Reshapes Self-Propelled MotionWe obtain exact closed-form moments for a harmonically trapped self-propelled particle with anisotropic translational mobility in two dimensions. At high persistence, the mean and MSD develop a…Amir Shee, P. S. Pal·May 4, 2026SaveLearn
Ergodic and Discrete Time Crystal Phases in Periodically Kicked Many-Body Quantum Systems: An Analytical StudyWe analytically study the time evolution of the expectation values of observables in periodically kicked many-body quantum systems. Starting from an initial state, we compute both the transient and…Vijay Kumar, Dibyendu Roy·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
System driven out-of equilibrium by weak contacts with reservoirsThe non-equilibrium behavior of particle systems driven by reservoirs has been extensively studied in recent years. In one dimension, various regimes have been explored depending on the coupling…Thierry Bodineau, Bernard Derrida·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Location of the liquid-vapor critical point in aluminumThe precise location of the liquid-vapor critical point in aluminum has remained elusive for decades, with reported critical temperatures spanning nearly 4000 K. Here we resolve this long-standing…Xuyang Long, Kai Luo·May 3, 2026SaveLearn
Landau free energy and the absence of spontaneous magnetization of the one-dimensional Ising modelWe revisit the problem of spontaneous magnetization of the one-dimensional Ising model from the Landau free energy perspective. To this end, we define and calculate the density of states of the…Z. F. Zheng, R. K. Lin, J. M. Zhang·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Long-range correlation and the spin conductivity in the XXZ chain from ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theoryBased on the ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory, the integration of the spin correlation function (spin conductivity) is analyzed for the spin-1/2 XXZ chain in the critical regime. In the time…Shinya Ae·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Brain criticality through nonadditive entropic analysis of electroencephalogramsOn the grounds of nonadditive entropies -- appropriate for complex systems -- we investigate the electroencephalogram amplitudes of typical and ADHD children. The corresponding probability…Henrique Santos Lima, Constantino Tsallis, Dimitri M. Abramov·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Entanglement dynamics after quenches with inhomogeneous HamiltoniansWe investigate entanglement dynamics in bipartite systems governed by inhomogeneous Hamiltonians of the form H = HL + HR, where HL/R acts only on the left or right region and is homogeneous…Andrea Di Pasquale, Federico Rottoli, Vincenzo Alba·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Microscopic theory of soft run-and-tumble particlesSoft, repulsive run-and-tumble particles display emergent effective interactions as they appear to stick to each other in spite of the absence of attractive forces. This effective attraction emerges…Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Ziluo Zhang, Luca Cocconi et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Effective attraction by repulsionRepulsive self-propelled particles tend to cluster, leading to Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS). By analogy with equilibrium phase separation, the onset of MIPS has been associated with a…Rosalba Garcia-Millan, Luca Cocconi, Ziluo Zhang et al.·May 2, 2026SaveLearn
Threshold-Controlled Geometric Reorganization in 2D Bootstrap PercolationTwo-dimensional bootstrap percolation is usually characterized by bulk observables, but whether increasing the activation threshold qualitatively reorganizes the geometry of the absorbing state has…Fangfang Wang, Wei Liu, Kai Qi et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Reconstruction of spin structures from topological charge distributions via generative neural network systemsLocalized topological defects inherently possess a multiscale character. While their microstructure configuration depends on the specific physical system, their topological features and mutual…Kyra H. M. Klos, Jan Disselhoff, Michael Wand et al.·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Renormalized entropy production for optimal transport in jump processes: Make conservative forces optimal againFor continuous-space diffusion processes, there is a strong connection between conservative forces and entropy production. For a given time evolution of the system's state, the entropy production…Andreas Dechant, Jann van der Meer·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Monte Carlo study of the superfluid phase of 4HeDetailed numerical results obtained with state-of-the-art Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) simulations are presented for the superfluid phase of 4He at saturated vapor pressure. The aim of this…Massimo Boninsegni·May 1, 2026SaveLearn
Fixed points and crossovers for the hysteresis scaling of dynamic mean-field modelsPhase transitions are divided into first-order phase transitions and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and universality, the former is…Jiapeng Yang, Fan Zhong·May 1, 2026SaveLearn