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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2026

Spherical Boundary Conditions: A Topological Framework for Isotropic Collective Dynamics.

Manuel Dedola, Ludovico Cademartiri

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Manuel DedolaDepartment of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17 A, Parma 43121, Italy.ORCID 0009-0009-3126-1960
Ludovico CademartiriDepartment of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 17 A, Parma 43121, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8805-9434

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Standard periodic boundary conditions (PBC) impose a toroidal topology on simulation domains. While geometrically flat, this topology allows for coherent reentrant self-interactions that preserve spurious long-range temporal correlations. We show that these topological artifacts manifest as strong, lattice-aligned anisotropy in collective dynamic observables, rendering scalar relaxation rates direction-dependent even at near-particle length scales, thereby violating the static-dynamic correspondence of isotropic liquids (de Gennes narrowing). To resolve this, we introduce Spherical Boundary Conditions (SBC), a topological framework that replaces the periodic torus with a mixing quotient space. SBC is defined by a radial folding map coupled to a boundary remapping driven by deterministic chaos. This construction effectively acts as a measure-preserving information filter: it preserves thermodynamic conservation laws, while suppressing the Lagrangian memory responsible for periodic artifacts. Using Brownian dynamics simulations, we demonstrate that SBC eliminates lattice-aligned anisotropy by construction, recovering isotropic static and dynamic correlations and effectively restoring the ergodicity and static-dynamic correspondence of the infinite bulk limit on a finite support.

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