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Precise Determination of the Long-Time Asymptotics of the Diffusion Spreadability of Two-Phase Media

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Pith's one-line read By fitting next-order terms in the long-time spreadability expansion, the paper recovers the microstructural scaling exponent α with errors near the noise level.

desk verdict Solid incremental methods paper: higher-order spreadability fits extract α more accurately on exact benchmarks, but the Type I generality claim is broader than what is actually tested. read the letter →

arxiv 2602.17873 v2 pith:HJBAHW5H submitted 2026-02-19 cond-mat.mtrl-sci cond-mat.dis-nncond-mat.softcond-mat.stat-mech

Shaobing Yuan , Salvatore Torquato This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper refines the way the long-time tail of the diffusion spreadability is fitted, so that the scaling exponent α that encodes how a two-phase material suppresses density fluctuations can be measured far more precisely than before. By adding higher-order correction terms to the asymptotic power-law fit, and by choosing those correction terms based on whether the material's spectral density is analytic at the origin, the scheme recovers α to within about 10^-5 on clean data and to within the noise level on noisy data. This matters because the spreadability is an experimentally accessible probe tied to NMR relaxation measurements, and α is the single number that separates hyperuniform from typical or antihyperuniform media. The paper also constructs a two-point Padé approximant that reproduces the full time decay of the spreadability with only a few parameters.

What carries the argument

The central object is the long-time asymptotic expansion of the normalized excess spreadability, s_ex(t) = t^{-(d+α)/2} Σ_{i=0}^∞ C_{β_i/2} t^{-β_i/2}, obtained by substituting a power-law expansion of the spectral density about k=0 into the exact integral representation of s_ex(t). The expansion's exponents β_i encode the analyticity of the spectral density at the origin, so choosing the right correction terms is what removes the bias in the fitted α. The three proposed fitting functions (Type I, II, III) are the practical embodiment of this machinery; the two-point Padé approximant blends the short- and long-time expansions to cover all times.

What would settle it

Take a disordered hyperuniform model with a known noninteger exponent in the range 0<α<1 (class III), generate its spreadability exactly from Eq. (1) via its spectral density, and apply the Type I fit with the order optimized; the fitted α should converge to the known value as the time window and fitting order are optimized — if it does not, the claimed bias removal is false.

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Core claim

The paper claims that the standard single-power-law fit to the long-time excess spreadability is systematically biased, and that fitting the full asymptotic expansion s_ex(t) = t^{-(d+α)/2} Σ C_{β_i/2} t^{-β_i/2} removes most of that bias. The correction exponents mirror the powers of k in the spectral density near the origin, so three fitting functions are needed: a general Type I, a Type II for integer α with logarithmic terms, and a Type III for analytic spectral densities. On Debye random media (α=0), disordered hyperuniform media in 2D and 3D (α=2), and an antihyperuniform medium (α=-1), the optimal-order fit recovers the exponent to within 10^-6, 10^-5, and 10^-2 respectively; with Gau

Load-bearing premise

The method assumes the spectral density admits a small-k expansion in powers of k (possibly with logarithmic factors) leading with k^α; if a real material's spectral density instead vanishes in a finite window (stealthy hyperuniform) or is dense in Bragg peaks near the origin (quasicrystals), the fitted α no longer represents the infinite-wavelength scaling exponent.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For typical nonhyperuniform, hyperuniform, and antihyperuniform disordered media, the exponent α can now be read off from spreadability data with errors near 10^-5–10^-6 in the noise-free case and errors of order the noise level when noise is added.
  • The fitting output also reveals structural constraints: whether the spectral density is analytic at the origin, which moments of the autocovariance function exist, and how fast the autocovariance decays at large distances.
  • The two-point Padé approximant provides a compact all-time parameterization of s_ex(t) with a few coefficients, which the paper argues can support inverse design of microstructures with targeted spreadability.
  • For antihyperuniform media with integer negative α, including logarithmic correction terms (Type II) is necessary to capture the exact long-time expansion; the paper demonstrates this for α = -1.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same correction-term strategy should transfer to any Gaussian-smoothed transform of a two-point statistic, so analogous bias-corrected fits could sharpen exponent extraction from other scattering-derived quantities.
  • The three-type hierarchy suggests a model-selection protocol: run Type I first, then test whether coefficient-ratio criteria justify switching to Type II or III; this order-restricted logic could inform other asymptotic-fitting pipelines.
  • Because only two-point statistics enter, the high-precision α recovered here may serve as a sensitive, cheap discriminator for simulated microstructures, potentially flagging finite-size or noise artifacts that direct spectral-density fits would miss.
  • For noninteger class-III hyperuniform media (α = 1/2, say), Type I should in principle work; testing the procedure there would close a gap in the paper's numerical demonstrations.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper presents an improved method for extracting the small-wavenumber exponent α from the long-time asymptotics of the normalized excess diffusion spreadability s_ex(t) of two-phase media. Starting from the exact Fourier representation, the authors derive higher-order asymptotic expansions (Eqs. 8–10) for s_ex(t) in terms of the small-k expansion of the spectral density, and propose three types of fitting functions: Type I with half-integer correction powers, Type II with logarithmic corrections for integer α, and Type III for analytic spectral densities with even integer α. They also construct a two-point Padé approximant for approximating s_ex(t) at all times. The fitting scheme is benchmarked on exact spreadability data for Debye random media (α=0), disordered hyperuniform media in d=2 and d=3 (α=2), and an antihyperuniform model (α=-1), including Gaussian-noise robustness tests. The reported noise-free exponent errors reach ~10^-6–10^-5, and noisy-data errors scale roughly as |δα|~η (Fig. 9).

Significance. If the procedure is accepted, it provides a concrete improvement over the earlier Wang–Torquato fitting algorithm, enabling more accurate microstructure characterization from spreadability data obtained by NMR or simulation. The derivation from the exact Fourier representation is clean, and the coefficient formula (10) is a direct, parameter-free consequence of that representation. The classification Table I is a useful synthesis, and the noise tests are carefully designed and reported. The central caveat is that the proposed fitting bases are highly commensurate; the claimed high precision is demonstrated only for media whose small-k expansions contain integer or half-integer correction powers. The paper would be strengthened by explicitly scoping this limitation or by adding tests for non-commensurate corrections.

major comments (3)
  1. [§IV.A, Eq. (24) vs. Eq. (9)] Type I is described as making the weakest assumption, but Eq. (24) fixes β_i=i, whereas the general expansion (9) allows arbitrary β_i. Thus Type I can represent only corrections of the form t^{-i/2}; it cannot represent, for example, a spectral density k^{1/2}(B + B_{0.7} k^{0.7} + ...), whose correction enters s_ex(t) as t^{-0.35}. All validations in Sec. V use spectral densities with integer/even correction powers (DRM, DHM) or integer powers plus logarithms (AHM). No test involves non-integer β_i or non-integer α. The claimed |δα|≲10^-5–10^-6 is therefore not established for the broad class that Type I is asserted to cover. Please add at least one benchmark with non-commensurate correction exponents, or explicitly restrict the applicability claim in Sec. VI.
  2. [§IV.B] The optimal fitting order n_o is selected by a qualitative comparison of fits across orders, described as separating 'underfitting' from 'overfitting' regions. The headline accuracy values (Figs. 4–8) are reported at the n_o chosen by this heuristic. No objective selection criterion is given, so the procedure cannot be reproduced by a user without the authors' judgment. I recommend defining a quantitative rule (e.g., stability of α across consecutive n, an information criterion, or cross-validation) and reporting the sensitivity of α̂ to n in a neighborhood of n_o.
  3. [§V] The synthetic benchmarks are closed-loop: exact s_ex(t) is computed from the same analytic χ_V(r) or spectral density whose small-k expansion is used as the fitting model. This is a valid test of the truncation procedure but not of its behavior when the true spectral density has a correction structure outside the fitted basis. This compounds the issue raised in the first major comment. A test on data generated from a model not of the fitted form (e.g., a numerically simulated microstructure or a spectral density with an ad hoc non-analytic term) would make the 'real data' claim in Sec. VI more convincing.
minor comments (3)
  1. [§III.B, Eq. (20)] The two-point Padé parameters t0 and ν are not specified. Figure 2(c) states that the approximant involves only three independent coefficients (A1, C0, C1), but t0 and ν are also free parameters. Please clarify how these are chosen.
  2. [§II.D, Eq. (14)] The notation |kσ|^3 and |kσ|^4 is confusing; presumably |k|σ is meant. Please define σ and use consistent notation.
  3. [General] There are several typographical errors, including 'synethetic' in the Introduction, 'efficient' in Sec. II, and 'as as' before Eq. (18). A careful proofreading pass would be helpful.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the fitting functions follow from the exact spreadability formula and the asymptotic expansion; the in-sample benchmarks are validation, not derivation.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is Eq. (1), the exact Fourier representation of the normalized excess spreadability. Equations (8)–(10) provide the long-time expansions by standard Fourier/Laplace asymptotics, with coefficients defined by moments or spectral-density expansion coefficients. The three fitting functions (24), (28), and (30) are obtained by taking logarithms of truncated versions of these expansions under explicitly stated assumptions on beta_i; they are not defined in terms of the output alpha. The recovery of alpha from exact data in Sec. V is an in-sample numerical validation: data are generated from analytic models (Appendix C) whose spectral densities satisfy the assumed expansion forms. This closed-loop benchmark does not make the derivation circular, because the method is being tested against known ground truth rather than used to define alpha. However, it means the high-precision claims (|delta alpha| ~ 1e-5 to 1e-6) are established only within the assumed power-expandable class, and non-integer correction exponents are not tested. The paper explicitly acknowledges exclusions (stealthy hyperuniform and quasicrystalline media, Sec. VI) and notes that the general expansion (9) is unstable for fitting, motivating the restricted Type I–III forms. The assumption beta_i = i in Type I is a stated ansatz, not a hidden one; the absence of non-integer-beta tests is a correctness/generality limitation, not circularity. Self-citations to Refs. [13] and [15] supply the underlying exact/asymptotic relations, which are independently checkable from Eq. (1) and standard Fourier analysis; no load-bearing claim reduces to an unverified self-citation.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No new physical entities are introduced. The central claim rests on fitted parameters (α and expansion coefficients) and on assumptions about the small-k form of the spectral density inherited from the authors' earlier hyperuniformity program; the synthetic validation uses the same analytic models.

free parameters (4)
  • Scaling exponent α̂ (fitted) = 0 (DRM), 2 (DHM), -1 (AHM) in synthetic examples
    The central output of the fitting scheme; for unknown media it is not derived from first principles but estimated from spreadability data.
  • Asymptotic coefficients C_{i/2} and E_j = Optimal fits e.g. Eq. (31)-(36)
    Fitted alongside α̂; used to infer analyticity of the spectral density and vanish for absent expansion terms.
  • Two-point Padé parameters t0 and ν (Eq. 20) = not specified in paper
    Enter the all-time approximant but the paper does not state how they are chosen; they become extra free parameters if not fixed by matching conditions.
  • Optimal fitting order n_o = 5 (3D DRM), 4 (2D DHM), 4 (3D DHM), 8 (3D AHM Type I), 3 (Type II/III)
    Chosen by inspecting the underfitting/overfitting trend; no automated criterion is provided.
assumptions (5)
  • standard math Exact representation s_ex(t) = (2π)^{-d} ∫ [\tildeχ_V(k)/(φ1φ2)] e^{-k^2 D t} dk (Eq. 1)
    Foundation from Torquato (2021); used for all expansions.
  • domain assumption Spectral density expands as (ka)^α [B + Σ B_{β_i/2}(ka)^{β_i}] plus possible log terms near k=0, α > -d
    Underlies Eqs. (9), (22)-(30); excludes stealthy hyperuniform and quasicrystalline media (Sec. VI).
  • domain assumption Analytic spectral density at origin has only even powers k^{2n}; equivalent to all moments M_n(χV) existing
    Used to justify Type III fits and the coefficient-vanishing tests in Sec. V.
  • standard math Distributional Fourier transform F[r^{-d-ζ}] = G_d(ζ)k^ζ with analytic continuation to poles (Appendix A)
    Needed for log terms and nonanalytic spectral-density expansions.
  • domain assumption Model autocovariances (C1), (C5), (C10) are realizable two-phase statistics
    Taken from Torquato's prior work; required for the synthetic validation sets.

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abstract

The time-dependent diffusion spreadability $\mathcal{S}(t)$ is a powerful dynamical probe of the microstructure of two-phase heterogeneous media across length scales [Torquato, S., \emph{Phys. Rev. E.}, 104 054102 (2021)]. It has been shown that when the spectral density takes the power-law form $\tilde{\chi}_{_V}(\mathbf{k})\sim |\mathbf{k}|^\alpha$ as the wavenumber $|\mathbf{k}|$ tends to zero, the normalized excess spreadability $\mathscr{s}^{ex}(t)$ [proportional to $\mathcal{S}(\infty)-\mathcal{S}(t)$] scales as $\mathscr{s}^{ex}(t)\sim t^{-\frac{d+\alpha}{2}}$ in the long-time limit $t\to\infty$, enabling one to determine the infinite-wavelength scaling exponent $\alpha$. An algorithm that allows one to reliably extract the exponent $\alpha$ from long-time spreadability data was previously devised [Wang, H., Torquato, S., \emph{Phys. Rev. Appl.}, 17 034022 (2022)]. In this paper, we further improve this procedure to obtain $\alpha$ even more accurately by incorporating higher-order correction terms to the long-time asymptotics and by utilizing analyticity properties of $\tilde{\chi}_{_V}(k)$ at the origin. We illustrate our procedure by analyzing hyperuniform ($\alpha> 0$), typical nonhyperuniform ($\alpha=0$), and antihyperuniform ($-d < \alpha <0$) models of two-phase media. In addition, by combining the large-$t$ asymptotic expansion of $\mathscr{s}^{ex}(t)$ with the small-$t$ expansion, we have devised a two-point Pad\'e approximant to approximate $\mathscr{s}^{ex}(t)$ for all $t$ with just a few parameters. Our findings facilitate the characterization of the microstructure of two-phase media across length scales as obtained from numerical spreadability data or experimental data obtained from NMR relaxation measurements. Our work can also be applied in the inverse design of two-phase microstructures with targeted spreadability behaviors.

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Figure 1. schematically shows the “phase diagram” of spreadability regimes in terms of the exponent α [13]. The long-time excess spreadability for antihyperuniform media (−d < α < 0) has the slowest decay among all translationally invariant media. A long-time decay rate of s ex(t) ∼ t −d/2 corresponds to a “typical” nonhyperuni￾form medium in which the spectral density is a bounded positive number at the origin, i.e., α = 0. … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: a plots the results of the Type I fitting function ln[sˆ ex 1 (t)] for d = 2, where |δαˆ| = |αˆ − 2| continuously decreases down to ≲ 10−5 as the order n increases up to the optimal order no = 4, implying α = 2 within the error range. Notice that the magnitudes of Cˆ 1…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: a plots the results of the Type I fits of ln[sˆ ex 1 (t)], where |δαˆ| = |αˆ + 1| continuously decreases down to ≲ 10−2 as the order n increases up to the optimal order no = 8, implying α = −1 within the error range. Since α = −1 is negative and odd, the spectral densi…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: FIG. 9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png]

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