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Author(s): Ido Fanto, Yuval Rosenblum, Ori Harel, Matan Yah Ben Zion, and Naomi Oppenheimer We study the overdamped dynamic spreading of a suspension of particles under a repulsive power law potential. We predict that the suspension spreads in a self-similar form, with its radius growing in time with a power independent of the dimension. We confirm this prediction experimentally using magn… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 248202] Published Thu Jun 18...

Author(s): Yue Qian, Yue Li, and Bo Li Fracture typically signifies mechanical failure in engineering materials, whereas controlled cracking may actively sculpt tissues through precise biological regulation. Here, we establish a multiscale nonlinear peridynamic theory that accounts for cellular mechanosensing to decipher the spontaneous … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 248402] Published Thu Jun 18, 2026

Author(s): Anne-Lena Moor, Age Tjalma, Manuel Reinhardt, Pieter Rein ten Wolde, and Christoph Zechner Trajectory mutual information is frequently used to quantify information transfer in biochemical systems. Tractable solutions of the trajectory mutual information can be obtained via the widely used linear-noise approximation (LNA) using Gaussian channel theory. This approach is expected to be accur… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 248401] Published...

Author(s): Zhenhua Wang, Yuyuan Lu, Lijia An, and Zhen-Gang Wang The tube model has long served as a cornerstone of entangled polymer dynamics and rheology. We test some of the key concepts of the tube model by investigating the equilibrium dynamics of a free chain in a fixed-topology polymer network using molecular dynamics simulation. Our results reveal signifi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 248101] Published Tue Jun 16, 2026

Author(s): Sudarshan Konidena, Franco Tapia, Alireza Khodabakhshi, Élisabeth Guazzelli, Pascale Aussillous, and Bernhard Vowinckel We present particle-resolved simulations of dense frictional suspensions undergoing the viscous-inertial transition using pressure-imposed rheology. By varying the fluid viscosity, shear rate, and granular pressure, we demonstrate that the transition occurs at a Stokes number of $≈8$ (close to the v… [Phys. Rev...

Author(s): Yi-Ting Chuang and Liang-Yan Hsu We predict an anomalous thermally activated superradiance in molecular aggregates within polaritonic environments. In contrast to free space, the collective emission is enhanced when either the exciton-phonon coupling or the temperature increases. This counterintuitive phenomenon is captured by a mi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 238001] Published Tue Jun 09, 2026

Author(s): Seamus F. Gallagher and Markus Deserno Fission and fusion of lipid membranes are ubiquitous shape transformations in living cells, necessary for maintaining the shape of organelles and enabling a host of transport processes between them. These topology-changing events involve curvature-elastic free energy changes proportional to the Gaus… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 238201] Published Tue Jun 09, 2026