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  • Breakup of an Active Chiral Fluid

    Author(s): Luke Neville, Jens Eggers, and Tanniemola B. Liverpool We study the breakup dynamics of a two-dimensional strip of active chiral fluid using continuum hydrodynamics. Using slender body theory, we show that the breakup is driven by the interplay between chiral and surface tension forces, and that the minimum strip thickness decays to zero as a power law … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 088302] Published Wed Aug 19, 2026

  • Quantitative and Predictive Folding Models from Limited Single-Molecule Data Using Simulation-Based Inference

    Author(s): Lars Dingeldein, Aaron Lyons, Pilar Cossio, Michael T. Woodside, and Roberto Covino A simulation-based inference framework combines physics-based modeling with deep learning to recover the Bayesian posterior of a biomolecular folding model directly from single-molecule force spectroscopy data. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 088402] Published Wed Aug 19, 2026

  • Charged Excitations Made Neutral: $N$-Centered Ensemble Density Functional Theory of Fukui Functions

    Author(s): Lucien Dupuy and Emmanuel Fromager An in-principle exact working equation to compute electronic affinity and ionization Fukui functions is derived within the $N$-centered (Nc) ensemble extension of density functional theory (DFT). It circumvents the kernel derivative discontinuity problem of DFT for fractional electron numbers, whose… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 088001] Published Tue Aug 18, 2026

  • Paradoxical Increase of Capacity due to Spurious Overlaps in Attractor Networks

    Author(s): Marco Benedetti, Nicolas Brunel, Enzo Marinari, and Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic In Hopfield-type associative memory models, memories are stored in the connectivity matrix and can be retrieved subsequently thanks to the collective dynamics of the network. In these models, the retrieval of a particular memory can be hampered by overlaps between the network state and other memorie… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 088401] Published Tue Aug 18,...

  • Curved Odd Elasticity

    Author(s): Yuan Zhou, Lazaros Tsaloukidis, Jack Binysh, Yuchao Chen, Nikta Fakhri, Corentin Coulais, and Piotr Surówka Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives, and tissues can often be described as active solids—materials that are energized from within, with elastic response about a well-defined reference configuration. These materials often live in complex and curved manifolds,… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137,...

  • Universal Jamming Criticality and Self-Organizing Principles from Disorder to the Limit of Perfect Crystalline Order

    Author(s): Jianhua Zhang, Jiaqi Si, Ning Xu, and Hua Tong While crystals are defined by periodic order, the nature of amorphous solids remains elusive due to their disordered, diverse, and nonequilibrium structures. Here, we focus on jammed elastic packings and systematically tune structure from crystalline to fully disordered to unveil the universal under… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 078201] Published Fri Aug 14, 2026

  • Quantifying and Minimizing Dissipation in a Nonequilibrium Phase Transition

    Author(s): Yuejun Shen, Zhiqiao Jiang, Yunfan Huang, Brittany M. Cleary, Yixing Jiang, Grant M. Rotskoff, and Aaron M. Lindenberg In a finite-time continuous phase transition, topological defects emerge as the system undergoes spontaneous symmetry breaking. The Kibble-Zurek mechanism predicts how the defect density scales with the quench rate. During such processes, dissipation also arises as the system fails to adiabatically … [Phys. Rev....
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