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Author(s): Kajetan Koperwas, Żaneta Wojnarowska, and Marian Paluch We provide evidence that dynamical slowdown in glass-forming liquids may follow different microscopic routes under cooling and compression, pointing to a previously unrecognized discrepancy between two dynamical landmarks: the Arrhenius–to–non-Arrhenius crossover associated with cooling and the infl… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228001] Published Wed Jun 03, 2026

Author(s): Feipeng Chen, Jiaxing Yuan, Yaojun Zhang, Hajime Tanaka, and Ho Cheung Shum Size-dependent electrostatic barriers place an upper limit on droplet merging efficiency. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228202] Published Wed Jun 03, 2026

Author(s): Twan Hooijschuur, Ehsan Irani, Antoine Deblais, and Sara Jabbari-Farouji Large-scale Brownian dynamics simulations of 3D semiflexible polymers show that activity modifies the classic picture of the isotropic–nematic transition which highlights a nontrivial interplay between activity, flexibility, and crowding in these systems. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228101] Published Tue Jun 02, 2026

Author(s): David Luce, Adrien Gans, Sébastien Kiesgen De Richter, and Nicolas Vandewalle We investigate how structural ordering, i.e., crystallization, affects the flow of bidisperse granular materials in a quasi-two-dimensional silo. By systematically varying the mass fraction of two particle sizes, we finely tune the degree of local order. Using high-speed imaging and kinematic modeli… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228201] Published Tue Jun 02,...

Author(s): Pasquale Digregorio, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Francisco Vega Reyes We show that systematic particle rotations in a fluid composed of disk-shaped spinners can spontaneously lead to phase separation. The phenomenon arises out of a homogeneous and hydrostatic stationary state, due to a pressure feedback mechanism that increases local density fluctuations. We show how … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 218301] Published Wed May 27, 2026

Author(s): Ivar S. Haugerud, Hidde D. Vuijk, Job Boekhoven, and Christoph A. Weber In the field of biomolecular condensates and synthetic systems, it is an open question whether liquid droplets can undergo self-sustained oscillations of formation and dissolution. To unravel the minimal physicochemical prerequisite for such droplet oscillations, we present a simple model composed o… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 218401] Published Wed May 27, 2026

Author(s): H. E. Read, G. Risso, A. Djellouli, K. Bertoldi, and A. Lazarus Parametric instabilities are a known feature of periodically driven dynamic systems; at particular frequencies and amplitudes of the driving modulation, the system’s quasiperiodic response undergoes a frequency lock-in, leading to a periodically unstable response. Here, we demonstrate an analogous p… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 208201] Published Mon May 18, 2026