Directional information transfer between interacting Brownian particlesWe theoretically investigate how information flows when two particles interact with each other. Understanding the physical mechanisms of directional information flow is crucial for advancing…Tenta Tani·Mar 11, 2026SaveLearn
Unraveling anomalous relaxation effects in the thermodynamic limitWe address two central open problems in the theory of anomalous Mpemba-like relaxations: their extension beyond one spatial dimension and their consistent formulation in the thermodynamic limit. Our…Emilio Pomares, Víctor Martín-Mayor, Antonio Lasanta et al.·Mar 11, 2026SaveLearn
Pattern stability in reaction-diffusion systems depends on path entropyReaction-diffusion systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium through the injection of energy can support multiple spatial patterns that persist as long-lived dynamical phases. The stability…Eric R. Heller, David T. Limmer·Mar 11, 2026SaveLearn
Exact solution of the three-dimensional (3D) Z2 lattice gauge theoryIn this work, the origin of nonlocal effects is inspected and the contributions of nontrivial topological structures to physical properties are investigated in details for both the 3D Ising model and…Zhidong Zhang·Mar 11, 2026SaveLearn
Integrability-breaking-induced Mpemba effect in spin chainsWe show that there are two distinct mechanisms that can cause the symmetry-restoration Mpemba effect in spin chains with weakly broken integrability, such that the asymptotic equilibration…Adam J. McRoberts·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Bridge Scaling in Conditioned Henyey-Greenstein Random WalksWe study fixed-length bridge paths -- half-space excursions that start and end at a planar boundary -- for three-dimensional random walks with Henyey-Greenstein scattering angles and exponentially…Claude Zeller·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Non-equilibrium generalized Langevin equation for multi-dimensional observablesThe Mori-Zwanzig formalism is a powerful theoretical framework for deriving equations of motion for coarse-grained observables in the form of generalized Langevin equations (GLEs) involving evolution…Benjamin J. A. Héry, Lucas Tepper, Andrea Guljas et al.·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Diffusive flux into a stochastically gated tubeDiffusion-influenced reactions in the presence of gates which randomly open and close have been studied for decades in a variety of biophysical and biochemical scenarios. The diffusive flux from a…Sean D Lawley·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Asymmetric simple exclusion process with tree-like network branchesThe asymmetric simple exclusion process (ASEP) is a fundamental stochastic model describing asymmetric many-particle diffusion with hard-core interactions on a one-dimensional lattice, and has been…Yuki Ishiguro, Yasunobu Ando·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Canonical Criterion for Third-Order TransitionsMicrocanonical inflection-point analysis (MIPA) identifies third-order transitions from derivatives of the microcanonical entropy, but whether such transitions admit a direct canonical formulation…Fangfang Wang, Wei Liu, Kai Qi et al.·Mar 10, 2026SaveLearn
Rényi exponent landscape of multipartite entanglement in free-fermion systemsWe show that the Rényi tripartite information I3(α) of free fermions exhibits a qualitatively α-dependent scaling at small Fermi momentum, in sharp contrast to bipartite entropy where only…Aleksandrs Sokolovs·Mar 9, 2026SaveLearn
The quantum square-well fluid: a thermodynamic geometric viewWe investigate several aspects of the thermodynamic geometry for a quantum fluid with square-well interactions using a third-order perturbation theory framework based on the path-integral-necklace…J. L. López-Picón, L. F. Escamilla-Herrera, Alejandro Gil-Villegas et al.·Mar 9, 2026SaveLearn
Percolation on multifractal, scale-free weighted planar stochastic porous latticeWe introduce the Weighted Planar Stochastic Porous Lattice (WPSPL), a geometrically disordered substrate generated by iteratively subdividing a unit square. At each step a block is selected with…Proshanto Kumar, Md. Kamrul Hassan·Mar 9, 2026SaveLearn
Fisher Curvature Scaling at Critical Points: An Exact Information-Geometric Exponent from Periodic Boundary ConditionsWe study the scalar curvature of the Fisher information metric on the microscopic coupling-parameter manifold of lattice spin models at criticality. For a d-dimensional lattice with periodic…Max Zhuravlev·Mar 8, 2026SaveLearn
Harvest Ambient Heat via Constraint-Shaped Phase-Change Cycles: Micro ΔT, Subcooled Liquid, and Liquid-Only CompressionConventional heat engines typically require two distinct thermal reservoirs, with their efficiency strictly bounded by the Carnot limit. We present a theoretical design for a phase-change heat engine…Ting Peng·Mar 7, 2026SaveLearn
Offer of a reward does not always promote trust in spatial gamesTrust is one of the cornerstones of human society. One of the evolutionary pressure mechanisms that may have led to its emergence is the presence of incentives for trustworthy behavior. However, this…Haidong Zhang, Chaoqian Wang, Shuo Liu et al.·Mar 7, 2026SaveLearn
Mean-Field Convective Phase Separation under Thermal GradientsNonequilibrium conditions fundamentally change how systems undergo phase separation. In lattice gases with attractive interactions under temperature gradients, particles have been shown to form…Meander Van den Brande, François Huveneers, Kyosuke Adachi·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Magnetoelastic signatures of thermal and quantum phase transitions in a deformable Ising chain under a longitudinal and transverse magnetic fieldWe investigate a deformable spin-1/2 Ising chain subjected to either a longitudinal or a transverse magnetic field, which incorporates a magnetoelastic coupling linearly dependent on a lattice…David Sivy, Jozef Strecka·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Floquet scars and prethermal fragmentation in a driven spin-one chainWe study the periodic dynamics of a spin-one chain driven using a square-pulse protocol with amplitude Q0 and frequency ωD. The Hamiltonian of the spin chain hosts a thermodynamically large…Krishanu Ghosh, Diptiman Sen, K. Sengupta·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Stochastic resonance in higher-order networks driven by colored noiseWe investigate stochastic resonance (SR) in an ensemble of coupled overdamped bistable oscillators driven by colored noise. The networks incorporate the weighted contributions of both pairwise…Zhongwen Bi, Dan Zhao, Qi Liu et al.·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Active fluctuations drive inertia-free absolute negative mobility in soft and living matterAbsolute negative mobility (ANM) is one of the most paradoxical transport phenomena in which a setup moves on average in a direction opposite to the applied force. The simplest system exhibiting this…K. Białas, P. Hänggi, J. Spiechowicz·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Critical dynamics govern the evolution of political regimesThe emergence and decline of democratic systems worldwide raises fundamental questions about the dynamics of political change. Contrary to the idea of a stable endpoint of liberal democracy, recent…Joshua Uhlig, Paula Pirker-Díaz, Matthew Wilson et al.·Mar 6, 2026SaveLearn
Operational Emergence of a Global Phase under Time-Dependent Coupling in Oscillator NetworksTime-dependent coupling is often interpreted as introducing competition between a protocol rate and an intrinsic synchronization rate. We show that this interpretation is unavailable in the…Veronica Sanz·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn
Extreme Values of Infinite-Measure ProcessesWe study the statistics of the maximum and minimum of a set of N random variables whose dynamical and statistical properties fall within the scope of infinite ergodic theory. These non-stationary…Talia Baravi, Eli Barkai·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn
Waiting-time based entropy estimators in continuous space without Markovian eventsEstimating entropy production in continuous systems that can only be observed with a limited resolution remains an open problem in stochastic thermodynamics. Existing estimators based on the…Jonas H. Fritz, Udo Seifert·Mar 5, 2026SaveLearn