Boundary-Induced Drift and Negative Mobility in Constrained Stochastic SystemsWe study overdamped stochastic dynamics confined by hard reflecting boundaries and show that the combination of boundary geometry and an anisotropic diffusion tensor generically generates directed…Meitar Goldfarb, Stanislav Burov·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Curvature-driven shifts of the Potts transition on spherical Fibonacci graphs: a graph-convolutional transfer-learning studyWe investigate the ferromagnetic q-state Potts model on spherical Fibonacci graphs. These graphs are constructed by embedding quasi-uniform sites on a sphere and defining interactions via a…Zheng Zhou, Xu-Yang Hou, Hao Guo·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Derivation and Analysis of Amplitude Equation for Generalized AMB+ in Presence of Chemical ReactionWe derive and analyze the amplitude equation for the roll patterns in case of generalized Active Model B+ (AMB+) in the presence of chemical reactions. The generalized AMB+ differs from the original…Sayantan Mondal, Prasenjit Das·Jan 12, 2026SaveLearn
Dynamic redundancy and mortality in stochastic searchSearch processes are a fundamental part of natural and artificial systems. In such settings, the number of searchers is rarely constant: new agents may be recruited while others can abandon the…Samantha Linn, Aanjaneya Kumar·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
Largest connected component in duplication-divergence growing graphs with symmetric coupled divergenceThe largest connected component in duplication-divergence growing graphs with symmetric coupled divergence is studied. Finite-size scaling reveals a phase transition occurring at a divergence rate…Dario Borrelli·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
Fluctuation-Dissipation Limits in Quantum Thermoelectric TransportAs a fundamental measure of stability in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations provide critical insight into the performance and reliability of heat engines. In this work, we establish…Ousi Pan, Zhiqiang Fan, Shunjie Zhang et al.·Jan 11, 2026SaveLearn
A Conservative Log-Size Master Equation for Fragmentation PBEs: Jump Transport, Drift--Diffusion Asymptotics, and PSD InferenceFragmentation population-balance equations (PBEs) describe how particle size distributions (PSDs) evolve under breakage and daughter fragment redistribution. From a standard self-similar…Juan J. Segura·Jan 10, 2026SaveLearn
Eigen Microstate Condensation and Critical Phenomena in the Lennard-Jones FluidDespite extensive study of the liquid-gas phase transition, accurately determining the critical point and the critical exponents in fluid systems through direct simulation remains a challenge. We…Lan Yang, Zhaorong Pang, Chongzhi Qiao et al.·Jan 10, 2026SaveLearn
Confinement-controlled chase-escape dynamicsWe investigate a minimal chase-and-escape model on a two-dimensional square lattice with randomly distributed static obstacles, focusing on how geometric disorder controls collective pursuit…R. G. Rossatto, H. Ariel Alvarez, C. Manuel Carlevaro et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Slow mixing and emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional Z2 gauge theorySymmetry-breaking order at low temperatures is often accompanied by slow relaxation dynamics, due to diverging free-energy barriers arising from interfaces between different ordered states. Here, we…Charles Stahl, Benedikt Placke, Vedika Khemani et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Exact Volterra series for mean field dynamicsWe derive an exact Volterra series expansion for a mean field of an interacting particle system subject to a potential perturbation, expressing the Volterra expansion kernels in terms of the…Ion Santra, Matthias Krüger·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Autonomous Discovery of the Ising Model's Critical Parameters with Reinforcement LearningTraditional methods for determining critical parameters are often influenced by human factors. This research introduces a physics-inspired adaptive reinforcement learning framework that enables…Hai Man, Chaobo Wang, Jia-Rui Li et al.·Jan 9, 2026SaveLearn
Short-time statistics of extinction and blowup in reaction kineticsWe study the statistics of extinction and blowup times in well-mixed systems of stochastically reacting particles. We focus on the short-time tail, T 0, of the extinction- or blowup-time…Rotem Degany, Michael Assaf, Baruch Meerson·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Construction of asymptotic quantum many-body scar states in the SU(N) Hubbard modelWe construct asymptotic quantum many-body scars (AQMBS) in one-dimensional SU(N) Hubbard chains (N≥ 3) by embedding the scar subspace into an auxiliary Hilbert subspace HP and…Daiki Hashimoto, Masaya Kunimi, Tetsuro Nikuni·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
How many-body chaos emerges in the presence of quasiparticlesMany-body chaos is a default property of many-body systems; at the same time, near-integrable behaviour due to weakly interacting quasiparticles is ubiquitous throughout condensed matter at low…Sibaram Ruidas, Sthitadhi Roy, Subhro Bhattacharjee et al.·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Fluctuation-response relation for a nonequilibrium system with resolved Markovian embeddingFluctuation-response relations must be modified to describe nonequilibrium systems with non-Markovian dynamics. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that such relation is quantitatively recovered when…Rémi Goerlich, Antoine Tartar, Yael Roichman et al.·Jan 8, 2026SaveLearn
Universality in driven systems with a multiply-degenerate umbilic pointWe investigate a driven particle system, a multilane asymmetric exclusion process, where the particle number in every lane is conserved, and stationary state is fully uncorrelated. The phase space…Johannes Schmidt, Žiga Krajnik, Vladislav Popkov·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Interplay of activity and non-reciprocity in tracer dynamics: From non-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation to giant diffusionNon-reciprocal interactions play a key role in shaping transport in active and passive systems, giving rise to striking nonequilibrium behavior. Here, we study the dynamics of a tracer -- active or…Subhajit Paul, Manish Patel, Debasish Chaudhuri·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Energy-Time-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Thermodynamic ComputingIn the paradigm of thermodynamic computing, instead of behaving deterministically, hardware undergoes a stochastic process in order to sample from a distribution of interest. While it has been…Alberto Rolandi, Paolo Abiuso, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik et al.·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Unifying Kibble-Zurek Mechanism in Weakly Driven ProcessesA description of the Kibble-Zurek mechanism with linear response theory has been done previously, but ad hoc hypotheses were used, like the use of the rate-dependent impulse window via the Zurek…Pierre Nazé·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
The thermodynamics of liquid-vapor coexistence for a van der Waals fluid. Analytical solution of the Clausius-Clapeyron equationThis work presents a pedagogical derivation of the thermodynamics of a van der Waals fluid by explicitly incorporating pairwise molecular interactions and the finite size of particles into the…J. L. Cardoso, V. G. Ibarra-Sierra, J. C. Sandoval-Santana et al.·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Stochastic Path Compression for Spectral Tensor Networks on Cyclic GraphsWe develop a new approach to compress cyclic tensor networks called stochastic path compression (SPC) that uses an iterative importance sampling procedure to target edges with large bond-dimensions.…Ryan T. Grimm, Joel D. Eaves·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Random knotting in very long off-lattice self-avoiding polygonsWe present experimental results on knotting in off-lattice self-avoiding polygons in the bead-chain model. Using Clisby's tree data structure and the scale-free pivot algorithm, for each k…Jason Cantarella, Tetsuo Deguchi, Henrik Schumacher et al.·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
Counterexamples to the conjectured ordering between the waiting-time bound and the thermodynamic uncertainty bound on entropy productionTwo widely used model-free lower bounds on the steady-state entropy production rate of a continuous-time Markov jump process are the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) bound σTUR,…Jie Gu·Jan 7, 2026SaveLearn
The Zubarev Double Time Greens function-A Vintage Many Body TechniqueThese lecture notes present a comprehensive and powerful many-body technique pioneered in 1960 by D. N. Zubarev. The technique, known as the Zubarev Double Time Greens Function method, was used…Vijay Singh, Shraddha Singh·Jan 6, 2026SaveLearn