Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

1975 - 2026

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Volume 688, issue C, 2026

Acetylcholine optimizes sensory coding by tuning criticality in a clustered neural network

Fan Wang, Chun-Wang Su, You-Jun Li, Qing-Jian Chen, Run-Chen Lai, Menghua Man, Junjie Jiang, Sheng-Jun Wang, Celso Grebogi and Zi-Gang Huang

Analysis of the Annals of Joseon Dynasty: Careers of bureaucrats, system of governance, and stability

Donghyeok Choi, Javier Cha and Juyong M. Park

Efficient strategy for Parallel Minority Games

Ankith Reddy Vemula and Soumyajyoti Biswas

From global to local: A transfer learning framework for municipal dengue prediction in Brazil

Werner Kristjanpoller, Leonardo H.S. Fernandes, Jader S. Jale, Maria A.R. Silva and Benjamin Miranda Tabak

Fractional-order FitzHugh–Nagumo dynamics: From single-neuron stability bifurcations to synchronization in small-world networks

Wenjing He, Maokang Luo and Lu Zhang

Integrated driving behavior modeling for expressway merging zones based on virtual vehicles

Yaqin He, Jiehang Chen, Wancheng Yang and Mengchi Rao

Blume–Capel model in d=1 with long-range interactions: Giant reentrance in the finite-temperature tricritical phase diagrams

E. Can Artun and A. Nihat Berker

Topological quantum phase transitions and multicritical caloric effects in the AI symmetry class

L.J. Ding and Y. Zhong

Who should fight the spread of fake news?

Diana Riazi and Giacomo Livan

Microscopic feedback and nonlinear nuclear spin dynamics in driven NV center ensembles

A.-B.A. Mohamed, A.S.A. Alghwali, E.K. Jaradat and Hazrat Ali

Delay-aware information flow topology design for mixed traffic stability: A unified analysis framework with communication constraints

Xinrui Wang, Panpan Yang, Maode Yan, Chunliang Wu, Rui Teixeira and Beatriz Martinez-Pastor

Threshold-controlled fractional dissipation in open quantum systems

Khushboo Rani

Spin models for energetics of polytypes in face-centered cubic metals

Li Liu, Zhong-Qiang Liu, Su-Rong Jiang and Xun-Wang Yan

Study on dynamic magnetic behaviors and magnetocaloric effect in double-layer MXene-like structure with mixed spins

Kai-Le Shi, Zhong-Qian Su and Wei Jiang

Adiabatic elimination in relativistic stochastic mechanics

Tao Wang and Yu Shi

Dynamics of quantum coherence and non-classical correlations in open quantum system coupled to a squeezed thermal bath

Neha Pathania, Ramniwas Meena and Subhashish Banerjee

Corrigendum to “Combined use of ‘‘two-step’’ and ‘‘field-theoretic’’ renormalization group theories for deterministic partial differential equations” [Phys. A 687 (2026) 131362]

Ko Okumura

Experimental study on pushing propagation in a dynamic Pedestrian Queue

Yushan Song, Haiyang Huang, Liangchang Shen, Jiayue Wang and Wenguo Weng

Information-driven behavioural dynamics in indoor gas-leak evacuation

Dongyue Zhao, Haixing Hu, Yunhe Tong, Shihua Ren, Xiaolong Zhao and Qi Qi

Percolation transition from germanium quantum dots to a monolayer in the heteroepitaxy growth model

Zahra Mokhtari, Mohadeseh Feshanjerdi and Amir Ali Masoudi

Sorting chiral active Brownian particles with radially modulated optical fields

Harun Yücel

Higher-order interactions with payoff weighting promote cooperation in public goods on simplicial complexes

Zhongfu Liu and Jinlong Ma

Topological resilience of quantum coherence in Erdős–Rényi random graphs under edge dilution

Wenting Pan, Hui Liu and Kun Zhang

Removing noisy links benefits link prediction in complex network

Zian Le, Mingyang Zhou, Hao Liao, Xiangrong Wang and Rui Mao

TripRank: A centrality metric based on dynamic competition of geometric–topological structures for influential nodes identification

Xi Ning, Jie Zhang, Meigen Huang, Tao Wang, Boquan Zhang, Bangrong Ruan and Yonglin Lei

Influence of mobile phone usage behavior on pedestrian dynamics: An experimental study on single-file flow

Zuoan Hu, Fei Zhu, Zhiqi Gou, Jun Du, Tian Zeng, Yidong Wei and Yi Ma

Enhanced social force model for non-motorized vehicle flow: predictive decision-making and spatio-temporal repulsion mechanism

Weibin Zhang, Jingjin Li, Long Wang, Qi Wang and Xingran Huang

Bridging phase and timing: A joint Q-value learning framework for synergistic traffic signal control at consecutive arterial road intersections

Haoran Liu, Xiaohu Li, Luodan Zhang and Rongjun Cheng

Quantifying Iran’s endemic transition in COVID-19 through Omicron reproduction number estimates

Dorsa Macky Aleagha, Payam Zohari and Mostafa Haghir Chehreghani

Morphological effects on bacterial Brownian motion: Validation of a chiral two-body model

Baopi Liu, Bowen Jin, Lu Chen and Ning Liu

Single-nodal spontaneous symmetry breaking in NLP models

Shalom Rosner, Ronit D. Gross, Ella Koresh and Ido Kanter

Characterization of phospholipid–cholesterol bilayers as self-assembled amphiphile block polymers that contain headgroups

Xiaoyuan Wang, Fredric S. Cohen, Shixin Xu and Yongqiang Cai

Predicting network topology from empirical evolution rules: A case study in email networks

Rui-Jie Wu, Bin Lin, Fanshu Fang, Yi-Xiu Kong and Gui-Yuan Shi

Volume 687, issue C, 2026

Tsallis’ q-statistics and thermal geometry

Angelo Plastino

An adaptive multi-task learning method with task-specific attention for node classification and link prediction

Mingzhou Yang and Yuxin Liu

Novel car-following model incorporating steady-state control effect in intelligent transportation systems

Xing Lü, Jin-Yu Zhou, Rui Jiang, Bin Jia and Ziyou Gao

Combined use of “two-step” and “field-theoretic” renormalization group theories for deterministic partial differential equations

Ko Okumura

Detection of weak signals in second-order composite multi-stable matching stochastic resonance

Rui Gao, Dawei Zhang, Weixin Li, Shangbin Jiao, Yan Zhu, Xuzhao Yuan and Jianying Fan

Assessing metro station facility network resilience to cascading failures using a coupled map lattice approach

Tianchi Luo, Jiaying Duan, Tianlei Zhu, Kaixiong Jiang, Chunjiao Dong and Xin Yang

A group evacuation simulation model under bidirectional flow collision and stampede scenarios

Mao Qinghua, Huo Songzhuo, Li Yang and Xuyang Wan

Current reversals in driven lattice gases and Brownian motion

Moritz Wolf, Sören Schweers and Philipp Maass

Flooding-induced fragmentation in an adaptive bounded confidence model

Igor Douven

Coevolution of epidemic spread and protective behavior in populations with heterogeneous behavioral tendencies

Xinkun Zhang, Hongsheng Deng, Zhongyuan Ruan and Xiyun Zhang

The phase polarization induced by homogeneous structure of evolving random hypergraph

Yusong Ye, Xiaopei Jiao, Mingjun Han and Zhuoqin Yang

Dynamic probabilistic decision networks

V.I. Yukalov and E.P. Yukalova

Invariant-Net: Enhancing generalization in physics-informed neural networks via lie symmetry reduction

Pengcheng Cheng and Shuhuan Li

Volume 686, issue C, 2026

ϕ-Extropy complexity measure: Extensions and applications

Omid Kharazmi, Javier E. Contreras-Reyes, Cihat Erol and Femin Yalcin

Quantum stirling heat engines with a three-spin LMG model: Performance and thermodynamic modes under anisotropic coupling

Yongjun Xiao, Aimei Liu and Li-Cai Zhao

Fine structure of exciton: Schrödinger’s cat and superfluidity

Xuebing Gong

Quantum entanglement in quasi-one-dimensional spin systems with alternating interactions

Lizhen Hu, Yuliang Xu, Panpan Zhang, Xiangmu Kong and Shiwei Yan

Facilitating cooperative behavior through reinforcement learning with age-driven state transitions in structured populations

Ran Zhang, Tianbo An, Jian Zhao and Zhen Wang

Translation entropy: A statistical framework for evaluating translation systems

Ronit D. Gross, Yanir Harel and Ido Kanter

Competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic phases on the frustrated Ising honeycomb lattice

P.F. Dias, F.M. Zimmer, N.G. Fytas and M. Schmidt

Pedestrian evacuation in fire environments: Scientometric analysis and systematic evaluation

Xinyue Qi, Xiaolian Li, Jun Zhang and Weiguo Song

Robust two-dimensional platoon strategy for connected and automated vehicles

Jiahao Zhang and Hongsheng Qi

Research on the macroscopic characteristics of heterogeneous traffic flow under the influence of autonomous vehicle takeover behavior

Lili Yang, Shicheng Ma, Hongfei Jia, Tianze Ma and Zixuan Mao

Novel approach to accounting for correlations in evolution of an open quantum system and the Lindblad equation

Victor F. Los

Large language model-driven bi-level game framework for connected and automated vehicle pair at mixed unsignalized intersections

Tianwen Yan, Maode Yan, Lei Zuo and Mingren Fu

Anharmonic interaction as random field for thermal transport in FPU-β lattice

Li Wan

Research on carbon emission analysis considering heterogeneous traffic flow with HDV driving style

Wenhui Zhang, Cong Xi, Meiru Ye and Ziwen Song

Phase diagram and spin nematic phase transitions in biquadratic spin- 1 and spin-2 XY chains with single-ion anisotropies

Yan-Wei Dai, Sheng-Hao Li, Sam Young Cho and Huan-Qiang Zhou

A study of mixed-traffic lane change decision for connected and autonomous vehicles considering driving styles

Ming Li, Xinrui Yu and Yantao Zou

Cumulant expansions and the large deviation rate function

J.M. Rickman, M.L. Comer and J. Xu

Excitation of Kármán vortex street in Bose–Einstein condensate with moiré lattice

Kaihua Shao, Baolong Xi, Zhonghong Xi, Pu Tu, Xi Zhao and Yuren Shi

Serial vs parallel recall in the Blume-Every-Griffiths neural networks

Linda Albanese, Andrea Alessandrelli, Adriano Barra and Emilio N.M. Cirillo

From pairs to groups: Recombining keywords via LLM-enhanced hyperlink prediction

Chaoguang Huo, Wenjia Zhang and Zhixiang Wu

A multi-level cross-molecular interaction neural network for mixture property prediction

Zhiwei Shi, Miao Ma, Hanyang Ning, Bo Yang and Liping Ding

Non-linear wave dynamics and stability transitions in traffic flow with localised market perturbations

Gabriel Obed Fosu, Fredrick Asenso Wireko and Kwame Atta Gyamfi

A quantum-inspired post-processing method using collaborative mapping operators for random numbers and its application in image encryption

Jinlong Li, Zheng Cai, Riming Sun and Changxian Li

The entangled density operator describing an non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier system and its von Neumann entropy

Xiang-Guo Meng, Li-Li Xu, Xu-Cong Zhou and Wei-Feng Wu

Dynamics of the Kac Ring Model with switching scatterers

Leonid A. Bunimovich, Emilio N.M. Cirillo, Matteo Colangeli and Lamberto Rondoni

Extreme events on multiplex networks with asymmetric interlayer coupling

Jinghua Chen, Feng Zhu and Xiao Ding

A similarity laplacian energy perspective on critical node identification in complex networks

Sizheng Liu, Xinghua Qin, Yirun Ruan, Mengmeng Zhang, Liang Bai and Tianyuan Yu

Time delay effects on spatiotemporal pattern dynamics in directed networks

Zhao Song, Ruihong Xue, Xinyu Wang and Xiangfeng Dai

Impact of uncertain payoffs on evolution of cooperation in TFT-AllD game based on imitation dynamics

Si-Yi Wang, Zi-Xuan Li, Xiu-Deng Zheng, Yi Tao and Cong Li

On the dynamics of the q-Tsallis Gauss Iterated Map

Daniel Borin, Matheus Rolim Sales, Edson Denis Leonel and Diego Fregolent Mendes de Oliveira

Driving risk potential field modeling in heterogeneous traffic flow with applications to motorcycle car-following analysis

Ru Ling, Hong Guo, Hang Liu and Zhibin Li

A continuous nonlinear optimization perspective on the Spin Glass Problem

Phil Duxbury, Carlile Lavor and Luiz Leduino de Salles-Neto

Nonlinear study for a mixed traffic system with delayed compensation and control scheme resist to communication interruption of CAVs

Geng Zhang, Yue-Yue Yan and Ting-Lin Li

Heterogeneous vehicle platooning in mixed traffic: Modeling and analysis using Markov chains

Zhen Qin, Jianing Wang, Lipo Mo, Yu Zhang and Dongfan Xie

Universality of self-organized phase transitions in driven three-dimensional magnetic systems with competing dynamics

R.A. Dumer, D.R. da Costa and M. Godoy

Szilard engine for the q-deformed quantum harmonic oscillator with the level degeneracy

Ferhat Nutku, Hayrünisa Yalçın and Ekrem Aydiner

Statistical properties of the rooted-tree encoding of N

Pierluigi Contucci, Claudio Giberti, Godwin Osabutey and Cecilia Vernia

Self-attention vector output similarities reveal how machines pay attention

Tal Halevi, Yarden Tzach, Ronit D. Gross, Shalom Rosner and Ido Kanter

Probabilistic forecasting of high-frequency realized cryptocurrency volatility via CEEMDAN-integrated autoregressive recurrent neural network

Yosep Na, Jun Young Byun, Jungyoon Song and Jae Wook Song

Symmetry-induced maximum entropy production in enzyme kinetics: A noether-type mechanism

Andrej Dobovišek and Aleš Fajmut

Influence maximization using combined community-level influence score

Anil Tudu, Ardhendu Mandal and Debaditya Barman

The effect of role-based resource allocation on epidemic dynamics

Hao-Xiang Jiang, Chao-Ran Cai, Ji-Qiang Zhang and Ming Tang