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  "abstract": "Understanding how nonequilibrium systems evolve between distinct statistical regimes remains a fundamental challenge in statistical physics. Here we show that particle deposition at an evaporating contact line provides an experimental realization of cooperative one-dimensional deposition, in which post-deposition capillary attraction drives particles to migrate, cluster, and coarsen. As deposition proceeds, the cluster-width distribution undergoes a striking re-entrant transition, evolving from an initial exponential form to a peaked Gamma distribution and subsequently returning to an exponential form. This dynamic transition is accompanied by a non-monotonic crossover in fluctuation scaling, $σ_w\\sim\\langle w\\rangle^κ$, with $κ$ changing successively from $1$ to $1/2$ and back to $1$. Monte Carlo simulations reproduce these statistical transitions. Our results establish evaporative contact-line deposition as a simple model of correlated one-dimensional assembly and reveal how local interactions can produce re-entrant statistical behaviour in a nonequilibrium system.",
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    {
      "name": "Arundas Chandradasan"
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    {
      "name": "Dileep Mampallil"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.04388",
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  "published": "2026-11-03",
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  "title": "Capillary Coarsening Drives Re-entrant Statistical Transitions in Early Coffee-Ring Growth",
  "title_text": "Capillary Coarsening Drives Re-entrant Statistical Transitions in Early Coffee-Ring Growth",
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  "updated_at": "2026-11-06T18:21:01Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/9tdaxyk809qg4",
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