The stochastic porous medium equation in one dimension

This paper investigates the one-dimensional stochastic porous medium equation with additive white noise, combining functional renormalization group predictions and extensive numerical simulations to characterize its growth exponents, anomalous scaling, and multiscaling properties, while identifying its stationary measure with a random walk model related to a Bessel process.

Maximilien Bernard, Andrei A. Fedorenko, Pierre Le Doussal + 1 more2026-03-05🔬 physics

Anomalous scaling of heterogeneous elastic lines: a new picture from sample to sample fluctuations

This paper investigates a discrete model of a heterogeneous elastic line with random springs, demonstrating that when the spring constant distribution follows a power law with exponent μ<1\mu < 1, the system exhibits anomalous scaling driven by sample-to-sample fluctuations and abrupt shape jumps, a finding that challenges previous theoretical predictions and is validated by numerical simulations.

Maximilien Bernard, Pierre Le Doussal, Alberto Rosso + 1 more2026-03-05🔬 physics

Hyperuniform Disorder in Photonic Crystal Slabs with Intrinsic non-Hermiticity

This paper theoretically and numerically investigates light propagation in hyperuniform disordered photonic crystal slabs, revealing that intrinsic radiative loss (non-Hermiticity) fundamentally alters disorder scattering from a power-law dependence to a form dominated by a finite constant plus a modified power-law term, a finding validated through simulations with realistic parameters.

Zeyu Zhang, Koorosh Sadri, Brian Gould + 1 more2026-03-05🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Low-temperature transition of 2d random-bond Ising model and quantum infinite randomness

This paper demonstrates that the low-temperature ferromagnet-to-paramagnet transition in the two-dimensional random-bond Ising model is controlled by a zero-temperature fixed point that can be understood via a renormalization group mapping to a noninteracting quantum problem exhibiting an infinite randomness fixed point, where the tunneling exponent equals the spin stiffness exponent.

Akshat Pandey, Aditya Mahadevan, A. Alan Middleton + 1 more2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph

Thermodynamic coprocessor for linear operations with input-size-independent calculation time based on open quantum system

This paper proposes an analog thermodynamic coprocessor based on open quantum systems that performs parallel vector-matrix multiplications with stochastic matrices in a time independent of input size by encoding inputs as reservoir occupancies and reading outputs as stationary energy flows, while establishing a direct mapping between these quantum dynamics and electrical crossbar structures.

I. V. Vovchenko, A. A. Zyablovsky, A. A. Pukhov + 1 more2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph

Model non-Hermitian topological operators without skin effect: A general principle of construction

This paper proposes a general construction principle for non-Hermitian topological operators in any dimension that maintain real eigenvalues and robust zero-energy boundary modes without exhibiting the non-Hermitian skin effect, thereby extending the bulk-boundary correspondence to a broad class of non-Hermitian insulators and semimetals.

Daniel J. Salib, Sanjib Kumar Das, Bitan Roy2026-03-04⚛️ quant-ph