News for Physical Review Journals
ANNOUNCEMENT
2023 Journal Impact Factors
June 21, 2024
Clarivate Analytics has released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, which provides journal impact factors and rankings for over 11,000 scholarly journals.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2024
March 1, 2024
APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Partners with Research4Life
December 15, 2023
Offer includes Journal Access and waived article publication charges to Scientists in 100+ Lower and Middle Income Countries
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS and Astrobites Announce Partnership
October 25, 2023
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2023 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 3, 2023
APS congratulates the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.”
ANNOUNCEMENT
First Published Content from PRX Life is Now Online
July 20, 2023
It is our pleasure to introduce the first published articles from PRX Life, the American Physical Society’s new interdisciplinary, open-access journal exclusively for quantitative biological research.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Signs Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
May 16, 2023
The American Physical Society (APS), publisher of the Physical Review journals, is joining more than 20,000 individuals and organizations across 160 countries in a commitment to improve how researchers and their contributions to the scientific record are evaluated. APS is proud to mark the 10th anniversary of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) by officially signing on to the international initiative.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Life Is Now Open for Submissions!
March 20, 2023
View an interview with PRX Life Lead Editor Margaret Gardel and Managing Editor Serena Bradde from the 2023 APS March Meeting for more information on the journal.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2023
March 6, 2023
APS has selected 153 Outstanding Referees for 2023 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Life Opens for Submissions March 20, 2023
February 3, 2023
Mark your calendars: PRX Life, the first interdisciplinary journal focused exclusively on biological physics and quantitative life science research, will officially begin accepting submissions March 20, 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2023 Irwin Oppenheim Award
February 1, 2023
APS congratulates the recipients of the 2023 Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The second Perspective from PRX introduces “altermagnetism”
December 9, 2022
Physical Review X (PRX) just published the second in the recently debuted series of PRX Perspectives, offering forward-looking viewpoints of selected research topics or fields.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Randall Kamien Named APS Editor in Chief
December 7, 2022
The American Physical Society’s Board of Directors has appointed Randall Kamien as Editor in Chief effective January 1, 2023.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Introducing PRX Life
December 1, 2022
APS is pleased to announce the launch of the newest Physical Review title, PRX Life. PRX Life will offer scientists from a broad range of disciplines—including physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, and medicine—a high impact, fully open access journal dedicated to publishing outstanding research at all scales of biological organization.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2022
APS congratulates the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, where two particles behave like a single unit even when separated. Their results clear the way for new technology based on quantum information.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Open Access Report Shares Perspectives from Physics Researchers
August 22, 2022
The American Physical Society (APS), along with AIP Publishing, IOP Publishing (IOPP), and Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA), surveyed over 3,000 physical science researchers between December 2021 and January 2022 in an effort to understand their perspective on Open Access (OA) publishing. Their responses have been compiled into a report, which will help APS and other publishers better meet the publishing needs of the research community.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Nominations Are Open for APS Editor in Chief (EIC)
August 19, 2022
APS is now accepting nominations of members, including self-nominations, for the newly restructured role of APS Editor in Chief (EIC).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Associate Editor Olga Dudko
August 11, 2022
Olga Dudko is a theoretical physicist who studies the phenomena of the living world. Her research is driven by the notion that deep, physics-based conceptual approaches can encompass the complexity of living systems.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Search for Chief Publications Officer
April 1, 2022
The American Physical Society is looking for a Chief Publications Officer. The newly created role of the Chief Publications Officer (CPO) is to provide primary strategic and operational leadership of APS publications, furthering the APS mission to “advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics.”
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2022
March 1, 2022
APS has selected 146 Outstanding Referees for 2022 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Launches Perspectives
February 11, 2022
The new articles will take an informative, inspiring and forward-looking view on topics of interest. The inaugural article focuses on the vibrant field of active matter.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Associate Editor Thomas Powers
January 25, 2022
Thomas Powers is a theoretical physicist working in soft matter physics and fluid mechanics. His current interests include colloids, liquid crystals, membranes, and active matter, as well as the hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRL Welcomes Robert Garisto as Its New Managing Editor
January 12, 2022
Robert Garisto (right) has been named the Managing Editor of Physical Review Letters, the world’s premier physics journal. As Managing Editor, Garisto will lead PRL’s editorial team and provide scientific direction for the journal in partnership with PRL’s Lead Editor, Hugues Chaté.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PRX Energy Appoints Inaugural Lead Editor: David Scanlon
December 7, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) is delighted to announce the appointment of David Scanlon, Professor of Computational Materials Design, University College London, United Kingdom, to the role of Lead Editor of PRX Energy, APS’s new, highly selective, open access journal covering energy science and technology. Professor Scanlon will serve as the inaugural Lead Editor of the journal, which will open for submissions December 7, 2021 and offer an introductory promotion in which all article publication charges (APCs) will be paid by APS through the end of 2022.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review A is looking for a new part-time (remote) Associate Editor
October 14, 2021
Physical Review A (PRA) is looking for a new part-time (remote) Associate Editor with international scientific standing in the broader area of photonics, optical materials, and nonlinear optics to join our editorial team and become part of the stimulating academic endeavor to bring high-quality papers to our readership.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 5, 2021
APS congratulates the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming” and the other half to Giorgio Parisi “for the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.”
Professor Parisi has authored several papers with Physical Review journals. A selection of relevant papers from Physical Review Letters and Reviews in Modern Physics have been made free-to-read.
Patrick Charbonneau, Eric I. Corwin, Giorgio Parisi, and Francesco Zamponi, Universal Microstructure and Mechanical Stability of Jammed Packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 205501 (2012).
M. Mézard, G. Parisi, N. Sourlas, G. Toulouse, and M. Virasoro, Nature of the Spin-Glass Phase, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1156 (1984).
G. Parisi, Infinite Number of Order Parameters for Spin-Glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 43, 1754 (1979).
Paolo Rissone, Eric I. Corwin, and Giorgio Parisi, Long-Range Anomalous Decay of the Correlation in Jammed Packings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038001 (2021).
Giorgio Parisi and Francesco Zamponi, Mean-field theory of hard sphere glasses and jamming, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 789 (2010).
Giorgio Parisi, Order Parameter for Spin-Glasses, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1946 (1983).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Associate Editor Karin Rabe
September 29, 2021
Karin Rabe is a computational materials physicist with a particular interest in the use of first-principles quantum-mechanical calculations for integrated experimental-theoretical design of new functional materials. These include systems at or near structural, electronic and magnetic phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics, and switchable conductors.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Journals Announce Inclusive Name Change Policy
September 17, 2021
The American Physical Society (APS) today released the details of its name change policy for the Physical Review journals. The policy is intended to make the world’s leading physics journals more inclusive and ensure authors retain ownership of prior work published under a different name.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review X Seeks Lead Editor
June 22, 2021
The American Physical Society invites applications or nominations as part of an international search for the Lead Editor of Physical Review X.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review C Seeks Lead Editor
May 20, 2021
The American Physical Society invites applications or nominations as part of an international search for the Lead Editor of Physical Review C (PRC).
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review D seeks part-time Associate Editor to Develop Ties to Astronomy and Astrophysics
April 29, 2021
Physical Review D, a leading journal in high-energy physics, gravitation, and cosmology, seeks a part-time (remote) Associate Editor with high scientific standing in one or more subfields of astrophysics and astronomy, in particular: multi-messenger astrophysics, high-energy neutrino astrophysics, and/or galactic and extragalactic astronomy. The Associate Editor would be expected to develop ties between PRD and researchers in these subfields, and to raise the journal’s overall visibility.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2021
February 24, 2021
APS has selected 151 Outstanding Referees for 2021 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
EDITORIAL
PRB’s 50th Anniversary 1970-2020
January 27, 2021
Yonko Millev, Anthony Begley, and Laurens Molenkamp look back at last year and look forward to 2021.
ANNOUNCEMENT
RMP Associate Editor Pierre Ramond Has Won the 2020 Dirac Medal
January 6, 2021
RMP Associate Editor Pierre Ramond has won the 2020 Dirac Medal. See the full announcement from ICTP.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Colloquia Editor
January 4, 2021
Dietrich Belitz is a theoretical physicist working at the boundary between statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. His principal interest has been focused on quantum many-body problems, including superconductivity, magnetism, transport processes, and quantum phase transitions.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Rapid Communications papers will now be Letters
November 23, 2020
Starting January 1, 2021, the Rapid Communications article type will be renamed to Letters. With this change, all eight Physical Review journals that had previously classified articles of the type “Rapid Communications” will adopt the practice of Physical Review Applied and now publish such articles as Letters. Learn more
ANNOUNCEMENT
Elevating the Visibility of Quantum Scientists: Apply for the APS Wiki Scientist Course
October 20, 2020
PRX Quantum is sponsoring two scholarships for the APS Wiki Scientist Course focusing on quantum science. APS is sponsoring the course to better equip scientists to communicate with the public.
ANNOUNCEMENT
RMP Publishes APS Medal Prize Paper
October 14, 2020
The 2019 APS Medal for Excellence in Physics was given to Bertrand I. Halperin. This contribution was invited in conjunction with this award. This article is an extended version of a talk given at the March 2019 meeting of the American Physical Society, summarizing the author’s work in areas linked to topological aspects of classical and quantum physics. Read Article
ANNOUNCEMENT
Lead Editor Physical Review Fluids
October 13, 2020
The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review Fluids. The Lead Editor will provide intellectual leadership and vision for editorial standards and policies, direct the journal, and lead its editorial board and staff of editors. Physical Review Fluids (PRFluids) is dedicated to publishing innovative research that will significantly advance the fundamental understanding of fluid dynamics. PRFluids is strongly supported by APS’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), and closely interacts with the DFD Executive Committee to expand its scope into emerging research areas of fluid dynamics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Search for Lead Editor of Physical Review Fluids
October 9, 2020
The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review Fluids. The Lead Editor will provide intellectual leadership and vision for editorial standards and policies, direct the journal, and lead its editorial board and staff of editors.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2021 Irwin Oppenheim Award
October 7, 2020
APS congratulates Sumantra Sarkar and Jeremy England as the recipients of the 2021 Irwin Oppenheim award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E. Their article was selected for developing a theory of the emergence of self-replication in simple chemical models, and the definition of general design principles for constructing self-replicating objects.
Design of conditions for self-replication
Sumantra Sarkar and Jeremy L. England
Phys. Rev. E 100, 022414 (2019)
ANNOUNCEMENT
2020 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 6, 2020
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced the recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, which has been awarded for discoveries about black holes, one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe. This year’s prize is awarded to Roger Penrose (University of Oxford), Reinhard Genzel (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, and University of California, Berkeley), and Andrea Ghez (University of California, Los Angeles).
ANNOUNCEMENT
RMP Publishes 2019 Nobel Lectures in Physics
September 22, 2020
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Didier Queloz, Michel Mayor, and James Peebles. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Editor for Astrophysics
August 12, 2020
Véronique Van Elewyck is an astroparticle physicist with a background in neutrino phenomenology. She has contributed to the development of detectors and methods for multi-messenger astronomy, first with the Pierre Auger Observatory, then with the Mediterranean neutrino telescopes ANTARES and KM3NeT. She has coordinated several projects promoting the potential of deep-sea neutrino telescopes for interdisciplinary science.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: The Future of Physical Review D
July 13, 2020
Recently appointed Lead Editor, Mirjam Cvetič, introduces herself and discusses the future of Physical Review D.
ANNOUNCEMENT
American Physical Society, Max Planck Gesellschaft Pilot Transformative Agreement
July 7, 2020
APS and the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG) have finalized the terms of a strategic partnership that allows MPG authors to easily publish open access in all hybrid and gold Physical Review journals at no direct cost to authors. At the center of the collaboration is APS’s first “read and publish” pilot, covering the calendar year 2020, and building upon the long-standing relationship between APS and the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL).
SPECIAL COLLECTION
Examining racial diversity and identity in Physical Review Physics Education Research
July 1, 2020
In the following special collection from Physical Review Physics Education Research, authors examine and highlight racial diversity, specifically how Black physicists and people of color navigate within the physics community at large.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Editor for Applied and Materials Physics
May 13, 2020
Mark Stiles is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who has worked on a wide range of problems especially magnetism, spintronics, and neuromorphic computing. He made particular contributions to understanding interlayer exchange coupling, exchange bias, spin-transfer torques, and spin-orbit torques.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Mirjam Cvetič Selected as Lead Editor of Physical Review D
March 3, 2020
APS has appointed Mirjam Cvetič, Fay R. and Eugene L. Langberg Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, as the Lead Editor of Physical Review D (PRD). She takes over this role from Erick Weinberg of Columbia University, who has served as PRD’s Lead Editor since September 1996. Cvetič started in her new role on March 1, 2020.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2020
March 2, 2020
APS has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2020 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We Celebrate the Life of Kelvin Lynn (1948–2020)
January 14, 2020
We celebrate the life of Kelvin Lynn (1948–2020). He was an Associate Editor for PRL and PRB from 1984 until 2012, while working at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Washington State University. He was part of the “gang of four” editors who helped run PRL for a year while Gene Wells was on sabbatical, during the rush of papers on high-temperature superconductivity. He was a dedicated and spirited editor, who handled countless papers over the years. Our condolences go to his family.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Editor for Mathematical Physics
January 13, 2020
Dam Thanh Son is a theoretical physicist working in a wide range of problems spanning string theory, heavy-ion physics, condensed matter and atomic physics. Dam Thanh Son pioneered the application of methods of gauge/gravity duality to the physics of the quark gluon plasma. He has made important contributions to the physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect, dense nuclear matter and ultracold atomic gases.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 8, 2019
APS congratulates the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”, and Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Read more in this update from APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Editor for Climate Science
October 1, 2019
William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. His personal research concerns the interactions among greenhouse gases and aerosols, the coupled climate system, and global environmental change.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Memory of Bruno Eckhardt
August 27, 2019
It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of our dear colleague Bruno Eckhardt. Bruno was born March 25, 1960 and he died on August 7, 2019. He had served as Associate Editor for Physical Review E since 2007.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Daniel Felinto
August 21, 2019
We welcome Daniel Felinto (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Meet Our New RMP Editor for Nuclear Physics
August 1, 2019
Roxanne Springer has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech and is currently a professor of physics at Duke University. Her research interests are effective field theories of QCD and weak interactions. She was in the chair line of the Southeastern Section of the APS from 2010-2014, on the Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) from 2015-2017, and currently serves on the APS DNP Anti-harassment Committee. She is a Fellow of the APS.
ANNOUNCEMENT
RMP Publishes 2018 Nobel Lectures in Physics
July 2, 2019
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Gerard Mourou, Arthur Askin, and Donna Strickland. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Marek Zukowski Retires from Physical Review A
June 30, 2019
After serving for more than three years as a remote Associate Editor for Physical Review A, Marek Zukowski has decided to retire from his position, effective June 30, 2019.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Research is now open for submissions and waiving APCs in 2019
June 13, 2019
Our new open access, multidisciplinary journal is now open for submissions! To allow all authors an opportunity to experience this exciting new offering, APS is pleased to waive publication charges for a promotional period, the remainder of 2019.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Brant Johnson Retires from Physical Review E
June 3, 2019
After more than three decades of service to the Physical Review journals, Brant Johnson is stepping down as Associate Editor for Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review E
May 31, 2019
We welcome Magnus Johansson (Linköping University, Sweden) who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E. As Associate Editor, he will be handling manuscripts in the areas of solitons and nonlinear waves.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Julian Maynard Retires from Physical Review E
March 7, 2019
After 12 years of service Julian Maynard is stepping down as Associate Editor for Physical Review E. Julian was responsible for papers in a range of areas including acoustics, nonlinear waves, solid mechanics, and classical physics. We are very grateful for his contributions as an editor, for his dedicated service to the community, and his efforts on behalf of Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Read more about the Physical Review Research launch at APS News
March 1, 2019
Set to open for submissions soon, the new open access journal published by APS will cover the full spectrum of research topics of interest to the physics community. Read more at APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2019
February 26, 2019
APS has selected 143 Outstanding Referees for 2019 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Reviews of Modern Physics: The First 90 Years
February 7, 2019
Join us for a special session at the 2019 March Meeting to celebrate 90 years of RMP with some of the journal’s most widely read and cited authors.
ANNOUNCEMENT
REVTeX 4.2 Released
January 11, 2019
The first update to REVTeX since 2010 is now available. REVTeX 4.2 includes bug fixes, improved functionality, and support for more societies and journals. For more information, please visit the REVTeX home page.
ANNOUNCEMENT
RMP Publishes Inaugural APS Medal Prize Paper
October 23, 2018
The 2016 APS Medal for Excellence in Physics was given to Edward Witten. This contribution was invited in conjunction with this award. These original notes contain concise explanations of some key results in the axiomatic and algebraic approaches to quantum field theory, which are relevant to quantum entanglement. They serve to put the connection between quantum field theory and quantum information theory on a precise and rigorous footing. Read Article
ANNOUNCEMENT
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 2, 2018
APS congratulates the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems,” and Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses.” Read more in this update from APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
PhySH Now Publicly Available
September 11, 2018
PhySH, APS’s physics classification scheme, is now publicly available under a Creative Commons CC0 license. Created to provide a fully open, high-quality classification scheme for the entire physics community, PhySH groups concepts into a flexible hierarchy that organizes content by topics.
EDITORIAL
Physical Review A: An evolving and leading-edge journal with a rich history
September 4, 2018
Lead Editor, Gordon Drake, and Managing Editor, Thomas Pattard, discuss the evolution and history of Physical Review A.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Complete the Physical Review D Survey
August 8, 2018
The APS has formed a committee charged with reviewing the performance of the journal Physical Review D (PRD). To inform the work of the committee we would very much appreciate receiving your help and advice. More information
ANNOUNCEMENT
Assistant Editor, Physical Review Applied
August 2, 2018
Physical Review Applied seeks a dynamic and personable colleague for the position of Assistant Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review PER: Archiving Knowledge about Physics Teaching
July 2, 2018
Do laboratory experiments help students learn concepts? Why do so few women choose to major in physics? What is the most important skill for a high school physics teacher to develop?
ANNOUNCEMENT
Focused Collection: Astronomy Education Research
June 18, 2018
Articles appearing in this special collection highlight the current state of the field of physics education research as it relates to astronomy education research. Editorial
ANNOUNCEMENT
Program Announced for Physical Review Journals Symposium at Metamaterials 2018
May 15, 2018
The conference organizers and the editors of Physical Review are pleased to announce the program for the Physical Review Journals Symposium at Metamaterials 2018. This special session will feature four talks based on select works published in the Physical Review journals. In addition to this session, there will be a meet-and-greet event with the Physical Review editors.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Lead Editor, Physical Review A
April 16, 2018
The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review A.
EDITORIAL
Physical Review B: Condensed Matter, Then and Now
March 7, 2018
The late Peter Adams, founding editor of Physical Review B (PRB), impishly used to say that the journal was created in 1970 because The Physical Review had reached its binding limit. Apocryphal as that sounds, the birth of PRB couldn’t have happened sooner because solid state physics, the core charge of the journal, would soon morph into the broader arena of condensed matter physics (CMP) and then materials physics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Irwin Oppenheim Award
March 1, 2018
The editors of Physical Review E are pleased to announce the Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper in Physical Review E by young investigators.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2018
February 26, 2018
APS has selected 147 Outstanding Referees for 2018 that have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts submitted to the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.
EDITORIAL
Collection in Memory of Mildred S. Dresselhaus
February 20, 2018
Guest Editors Morinobu Endo and David Tománek introduce a body of papers to memorialize a pillar of the community, in the context of her life’s work.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review E 25th Anniversary Milestones
January 8, 2018
The year 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of Physical Review E. To celebrate the journal’s rich legacy, during the upcoming year we highlight a series of papers that made important contributions to their field.
EDITORIAL
A Tale of Two Anniversaries: 125 Years of the Physical Review and 25 Years of Physical Review E
January 3, 2018
Publisher Matthew Salter and Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, kick off the 125th anniversary of The Physical Review and 25th anniversary of Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Symposium at Metamaterials 2018 in Espoo, Finland
December 15, 2017
Together with the conference organizers, the editors of the Physical Review Journals are pleased to announce a special symposium of invited talks at Metamaterials 2018, highlighting some of the latest works within and beyond the traditional domain of metamaterials research.
ANNOUNCEMENT
John Kim and Gary Leal Selected as Co-Lead Editors of Physical Review Fluids
October 26, 2017
APS announces the reappointment of John Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, and Gary Leal, University of California, Santa Barbara, as co-lead editors of Physical Review Fluids. Since its launch in 2016, John and Gary have worked closely with a distinguished and diverse editorial board to publish innovative research that significantly advances the fundamental understanding of fluid dynamics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2017 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 3, 2017
APS congratulates Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne for winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
APS News Article
ANNOUNCEMENT
Randall Kamien Selected as Lead Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics
September 11, 2017
The American Physical Society (APS) has appointed Dr. Randall Kamien, Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, as the lead editor of Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP). He takes over this role from Dr. Achim Richter, who has served as RMP’s lead editor since 2005. Dr. Kamien formerly served as an associate editor for RMP from 2006 to 2010 and begins his new role September 11, 2017.
EDITORIAL
Materials Research in the Physical Review Journals
August 23, 2017
A discussion of the focus on materials related research in the Physical Review journals.
EDITORIAL
Materials Research in the Physical Review Journals
August 23, 2017
A discussion of the focus on materials related research in the Physical Review journals.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Symposium at Metamaterials’2017 in Marseille
August 14, 2017
Together with the conference organizers, the editors of Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, Physical Review B, Physical Review Applied, and Physical Review Materials are pleased to announce a special symposium on August 28, dedicated to a few select works published recently in the Physical Review journals, within and beyond the traditional domain of metamaterials research.
The symposium will be followed by a meet-and-greet event with the Physical Review editors.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Cultivates ORCID Links
July 18, 2017
On July 18, 2017, APS, along with the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP), has taken an important step towards working more closely with the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) system of unique identifiers by signing the ORCID open letter requiring the collection of ORCID iDs in their publishing processes.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Joins the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
July 11, 2017
Starting on July 11, APS will begin participating in the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC), a collaboration among scholarly publishers to make information freely available about what papers are cited by a given journal article. This information had always been available to those subscribing to the Physical Review journals, but now the citation data will be open to all.
ANNOUNCEMENT
American Physical Society continues as MathJax Supporter
June 27, 2017
The American Physical Society continues to support the MathJax project as a MathJax Supporter.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Michael Thoennessen Appointed New APS Editor in Chief
June 22, 2017
Nuclear physicist Michael Thoennessen has been selected to become APS Editor in Chief at the end of August 2017. Currently an Associate Director of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University (MSU) in Lansing, Michigan, and University Distinguished Professor of Physics at MSU, he was appointed following a vote of the APS Board of Directors on June 16.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Materials’ First Issue
June 19, 2017
The first articles from Physical Review Materials (PRMaterials) are now available online and showcase the high-quality, broad-scope research in APS’s newest journal. All articles appearing in the first issue are free to read through 2017. PRMaterials provides a common publication and reference source to the expanding community of physicists, materials scientists, chemists, engineers, and researchers in related disciplines that carry out high-quality original research in materials.
EDITORIAL
Call for Papers for Focused Collection: Quantitative Methods in PER: A Critical Examination
June 15, 2017
Guest Editors Marcos D. Caballero, Alexis V. Knaub, and John M. Aiken
Articles appearing in this special collection will highlight the current state of the field of physics education research as it relates to quantitative methods in PER.
EDITORIAL
Supplemental Material or Joint Submission?
June 14, 2017
A reminder from the Editor in Chief about simultaneous submission of a Letter and an article.
ANNOUNCEMENT
LIGO Continues To Make Waves in Gravitational Wave Detection Physics
June 1, 2017
LIGO has published their third gravitational wave detection from an observation in early January 2017. This new detection, published in Physical Review Letters, may help vet previously established theories of how these massive mergers behave, and has already provided a new round of observational data to push forward this new kind of astronomy.
EDITORIAL
Looking Ahead
April 4, 2017
PRL Lead Editor Hugues Chaté looks ahead to the initiatives he has in mind for the journal in the coming months.
EDITORIAL
Welcoming Hugues Chaté to Physical Review Letters
April 4, 2017
Editor-in-Chief Pierre Meystre welcomes Hugues Chaté as the new Lead Editor of PRL.