News for Physical Review E
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
2024 Irwin Oppenheim Award
October 27, 2023
APS congratulates Andrea Marcello Mambuca, Chiara Cammarota, and Izaak Neri as the recipients of the 2024 Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E.
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.”
EDITORIAL
Editorial: To Review Is to Be
September 25, 2023
APS Editor in Chief, Randall D. Kamien, discusses the importance and impact of journal reviewers.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Second Annual APS DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter
July 27, 2023
The winning entries of the Second Gallery of Soft Matter are highlighted in this PRE Guest Editorial. We hope they will spark the imagination of researchers and the public alike.
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
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.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: First Annual APS DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter
November 7, 2022
In this PRE Guest Editorial, the prize winners of the inaugural Gallery of Soft Matter summarize the science behind their entries.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review E - Valerio Lucarini
July 8, 2022
We welcome Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading, UK), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E. As Associate Editor, he will be handling manuscripts in the section on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Antonio Politi Retires from Physical Review E
July 8, 2022
After almost 25 years Antonio Politi has stepped down as Associate Editor for Physical Review E. Antonio has handled papers in the section on Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos since it was created in 1998. We are very grateful for Antonio’s contributions as an editor and for his many years of dedication to the journal. We will miss his presence at our meetings, his expert advice, his thoughtfulness and deep insights.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Introducing Perspective Articles
April 18, 2022
Three journals are excited to announce a new article type, “Perspectives,” to provide forward-looking views of cutting-edge science that has recently emerged or is enjoying renewed activity.
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 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
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
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.
EDITORIAL
Moving an Interdisciplinary Journal Forward
April 5, 2021
Physical Review E’s new Lead Editor, Uwe Täuber, outlines his vision for a journal that has always reached well beyond the boundaries of traditional physics.
EDITORIAL
Eight Journals Introduce Letters
March 9, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, eight Physical Review journals began publishing Letters which are intended for the accelerated publication of important new results targeted to the specific readership of each journal.
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Uwe Täuber Selected as Lead Editor for Physical Review E
January 14, 2021
APS has selected Uwe Täuber, Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Soft Matter and Biological Physics at Virginia Polytechnic and State University (Virginia Tech), as the new Lead Editor of Physical Review E.
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
EDITORIAL
Promoting Inclusive and Respectful Communications
November 18, 2020
APS Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, discusses a new opportunity for communicating authors to include their pronouns together with their contact email in order to promote a more respectful, inclusive, and equitable environment.
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
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
Search for Lead Editor of Physical Review E
August 6, 2020
The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review E (PRE). 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
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).
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review E - Caterina Riconda
January 15, 2020
We welcome Caterina Riconda (Sorbonne University, Paris) who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E. As Associate Editor, she will be handling manuscripts in the area of plasma physics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review E
November 4, 2019
We welcome Emily S. C. Ching (Chinese University of Hong Kong) who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E. As Associate Editor, she will be handling manuscripts in the area of fluid dynamics.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2020 Irwin Oppenheim Award
October 23, 2019
APS congratulates Eric DeGiuli as the recipient of the 2020 Irwin Oppenheim award for best paper by an early career scientist published in Physical Review E. His article was selected for its development of a comprehensive theory to describe the inherent states of amorphous solids.
Edwards field theory for glasses and granular matter
Eric DeGiuli
Phys. Rev. E 98, 033001 (2018)
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
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
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
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
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
First Irwin Oppenheim Award
October 23, 2018
APS congratulates Jordan M. Horowitz and Todd R. Gingrich as the recipients of the first Irwin Oppenheim award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E. Their article was selected for its significance, rigor, and broad impact in the area of nonequilibrium thermodynamics.
Proof of the finite-time thermodynamic uncertainty relation for steady-state currents
Jordan M. Horowitz and Todd R. Gingrich
Phys. Rev. E 96, 020103(R) (2017)
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Henrik Flyvbjerg Retires from Physical Review E
July 16, 2018
After four years of service Henrik Flyvbjerg is stepping down as Associate Editor for Physical Review E. Henrik was responsible for papers in the Biological Physics section. We are very grateful for his contributions as an editor and his efforts on behalf of Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physics Physique физика Freely Available Online
March 22, 2018
As a service to the community, APS has made “Physics Physique физика” freely available online. This small journal published fewer than 100 articles between 1964-1968 and includes papers by many notable physicists, including J. S. Bell’s paper “On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox.”
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.
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 4, 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
Corrections in Physical Review publications
January 4, 2018
The Physical Review journals and Reviews of Modern Physics now make Corrections of minor errors in published papers.
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
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
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
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
APS Endorses March for Science
March 10, 2017
After a thoughtful, deliberative process involving an examination of the alignment of the values of APS with the goals of the March for Science on April 22 in Washington, D.C., the APS Council Steering Committee, on behalf of the Council of Representatives, unanimously voted to endorse the march.
EDITORIAL
From the APS Editor in Chief
February 3, 2017
The journals of the American Physical Society welcome and will continue to welcome manuscripts from all countries, with publication based on scientific merit alone.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2017
January 17, 2017
APS has selected 150 Outstanding Referees for 2017 that 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
Introducing PRE Spotlights
January 4, 2017
The editors of Physical Review E are pleased to announce a new feature: PRE Spotlights, small selections of articles dealing with the same research area.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
October 4, 2016
APS congratulates David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz for winning the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical discoveries using topological concepts.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Selects Editor in Chief
June 23, 2016
Pierre Meystre of the University of Arizona has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Physical Review research journals.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Memory of Peter D. Adams
April 20, 2016
We are saddened by the passing on April 16 of our dear colleague Peter Adams, one of the founders of the Physical Review family of journals. We offer our heartfelt condolences to his family.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces Outstanding Referees for 2016
March 2, 2016
APS has selected 146 Outstanding Referees for 2016 that have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees for 2016 is available online.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review E Scope Description to Include Biological Physics
January 14, 2016
The editors of Physical Review E are pleased to announce that the journal’s stated scope has been expanded to explicitly include the term “Biological Physics.”
ANNOUNCEMENT
Changes to the Table of Contents of Physical Review E
January 4, 2016
The editors of Physical Review E are pleased to announce several changes to the journal’s table of contents.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Appoints New Publisher
December 1, 2015
Asia-Pacific region publishing manager for UK Institute of Physics to join top management staff of the American Physical Society.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Neutrino Oscillations Nab Nobel Prize
October 6, 2015
APS congratulates Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald for winning the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass. Their prize-winning research is free to read in Physical Review Letters.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Retirement of Margaret Malloy
October 2, 2015
Margaret Malloy, Editor and long-time Managing Editor of both Physical Review A and Physical Review E, retired on October 2nd after nearly thirty years of dedicated service to the APS. Margaret has been instrumental in raising and keeping the stature of PRA and PRE, a fact that has been recognized by awarding her a prestigious APS Fellowship for her work. She will continue to serve for a short period of time as a Consulting Editor to ensure a smooth transition.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Celebrating 50,000 Publications: PRE Milestones
September 4, 2015
Physical Review E celebrates the publication of its 50,000th paper in September 2015 by presenting a series of milestone papers.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review E seeks an Assistant Editor
June 30, 2015
The editors of Physical Review E seek a dynamic and personable colleague for the position of Assistant Editor based at the American Physical Society Editorial Office in Ridge, New York.
APS NEWS
Editor in Chief of APS Journals Steps Down
May 1, 2015
Gene Sprouse, Editor in Chief of the APS research journals since March 2007, has stepped down from the position as of April 28, 2015. Read more in APS News.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Soft Matters
February 2, 2015
Sharon Glotzer discusses the growth of soft condensed matter research, and the formation of the new APS Topical Group, GSOFT, in a Guest Editorial in Physical Review Letters
ANNOUNCEMENT
Article titles in the reference list
December 29, 2014
Starting January 1, 2015, all Physical Review journals will allow article titles in the reference list.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Increased Length Limit for Rapid Communications in Physical Review E
December 17, 2014
Starting January 1, 2015, Physical Review E is increasing its length limit for Rapid Communications.
EDITORIAL
PRX Takes on a New Role
October 9, 2014
APS Editor in Chief Gene Sprouse discusses the new role of Physical Review X as APS's highly selective and broadly accessible journal, that publishes a small number of key papers from all areas of physics in APS's nonprofit, science-first publishing tradition.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Congratulates the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners
October 8, 2014
The American Physical Society congratulates the 2014 Nobel Prize Winners in Physics and Chemistry.
Physics
The physics laureates Isamu Akasaki (Meijo University and Nagoya University), Hiroshi Amano (Nagoya University), and Shuji Nakamura (University of California, Santa Barbara) have been recognized for their work that led to the invention of the blue light-emitting diode, a fundamental stepping stone towards the realization of new environmentally friendly and energy efficient light sources.
Chemistry
The chemistry laureates Eric Bertzig (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), Stefan W. Hell (Max Planck Institute and German Cancer Research Center), and William E. Moerner (Stanford Univerisity) have been recognized for their work in improving the resolution of optical microscopy, in particular the development of a super-resolved fluorescence microscope.
“It’s a great year for optics,” said Pierre Meystre (University of Arizona Regents’ Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences, Physical Review Letters Lead Editor), “with blue LEDs winning the Physics Nobel yesterday and fluorescence microscopy winning the Chemistry prize today. It shows that wonderful things are happening in optics from saving enormous amounts of energy with efficient lighting to helping with life-saving medical advances that rely on super-resolution imaging. They are completely different technologies, but both light-based, and next year is the International Year of Light, so the timing couldn’t be better.”
Many remarkable papers from these scientists contributed to this development. These include Moerner’s seminal 1989 work on optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules in a solid, which was published in Physical Review Letters. This paper is now freely available on our website.
Read More from APS:
- Physics APS News Update
- Chemistry APS News Update
- APS Press Release for Chemistry Prize
- W. E. Moerner and L. Kador, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2535 (1989)
Nobel Press Releases:
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Launches Full-Text HTML
September 10, 2014
The American Physical Society has launched full-text HTML versions of more than 200,000 articles throughout the APS journal collection from as early as 2003. Users can now access APS content using high-quality navigation features and mobile-friendly math displays across a range of devices.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review E
July 1, 2014
Henrik Flyvbjerg of the Technical University of Denmark joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E as an Associate Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Memory of Irwin Oppenheim
June 10, 2014
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our dear friend and colleague, and the founding editor of Physical Review E, Irwin Oppenheim.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces 143 New Outstanding Referees for 2014
February 26, 2014
The editors of the APS journals have selected 143 new Outstanding Referees for 2014, out of more than 50,000 currently active referees.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcement: Physical Review E Discontinues Brief Reports
January 2, 2014
Since January 1, Physical Review E has discontinued the Brief Reports section. Short articles that warrant expedited handling will be published as Rapid Communications. Otherwise, short articles will be published as regular articles.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcement: PRE Editors' Suggestions
January 2, 2014
As a service to our readers, we are formally marking a small number of papers published in Physical Review E that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review Applied Now Accepting Papers
December 12, 2013
APS is now accepting submissions for Physical Review Applied, the newest member of the Physical Review family. Dedicated to publishing the highest quality research at the intersection of physics and engineering, Physical Review Applied will debut in early 2014.
ANNOUNCEMENT
ORCID One-Year Anniversary
October 16, 2013
ORCID is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, and APS is proud to have been a Launch Partner and to continue as a Platinum Sponsor of the ORCID Registry. We encourage all authors who have not yet registered for an ORCID identifier to visit the APS Author Profile application to sign up and help meet the goal of 500,000 researchers signed up by the end of 2013.
ANNOUNCEMENT
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics: Discovery of the Higgs Boson and the Symmetry Breaking Theory that Predicted It
October 8, 2013
The 2013 Physics Nobel Prize has been awarded to two physicists who were instrumental in developing the theory that helps explain the origin of mass of elementary particles and predicts the existence of the Higgs Boson discovered last year. The prize, which recognizes the contributions of François Englert (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) and Peter Higgs (University of Edinburgh) for the theory of broken symmetry in electroweak physics, echoes the announcement of the 2010 American Physical Society’s J. J. Sakurai prize, which was awarded to the two Nobel Laureates as well as four additional physicists who made comparable contributions to the symmetry breaking work. The work originally appeared in Physical Review Letters.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcement: New and Departing Associate Editors in Physical Review E
April 1, 2013
We welcome Alexander Wagner (North Dakota State University) who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review E. At the same time, after nine years of service Associate Editor Burkhard Duenweg steps down.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS TV at the 2013 March Meeting
March 26, 2013
APS partnered with the international film and broadcasting company, WebsEdge, to bring APS TV to the 2013 March Meeting.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Introducing Mobile Subscriptions for APS Journals
March 12, 2013
Readers can now conveniently access APS journals from home, on mobile devices, or while traveling by linking their institution’s subscriptions to their personal APS Journal Account. To link the subscriptions, simply click on the new Go Mobile! button that appears on article pages when accessing the journals from your institution.
ANNOUNCEMENT
An Invitation from Physics
March 11, 2013
Headed to the 2013 APS March meeting in Baltimore? Join us Wednesday March 20th for beer, pizza, and what is certain to be an excellent talk by Nobel laureate Bill Phillips.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Announces 142 New Outstanding Referees for 2013
February 6, 2013
The editors of the APS journals have selected 142 new Outstanding Referees for 2013, out of more than 60,000 currently active referees. Initiated in 2008, the highly selective Outstanding Referee program recognizes scientists who have been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals. Selections are based on two decades of records on the number, quality, and timeliness of referee reports. The 2013 honorees come from 27 different countries, with large contingents from the US, Germany, UK, Canada, and France. The decisions were difficult and there are many excellent referees who have yet to be recognized. By means of the program, APS expresses appreciation to all referees, whose efforts in peer review not only keep the standards of the journals at a high level, but in many cases also help authors to improve the quality and readability of their articles—even those that are not published by APS. For more information and a listing of all Outstanding Referees, please visit http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees.
EDITORIAL
Announcement: Changes to the Table of Contents of Physical Review E
January 2, 2013
We are pleased to announce several changes to the table of contents of Physical Review E.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Announcement: Gary Grest steps down from PRE Editorship
October 1, 2012
Gary Grest of Sandia National Laboratories has stepped down as Senior Editor of Physical Review E (PRE). Gary has promoted PRE as the leading journal for statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics since 2002, and during his tenure, the journal's coverage of biological physics, complex systems, and networks has continued to expand. Gary led PRE through a reinvigoration of the review process and raised standards. Over his ten-year term, submissions to the journal grew substantially, while the number of published papers remained roughly constant. We are very grateful to Gary for his dedication and service to the journal.
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Announcement: Eli Ben-Naim takes the reins of PRE
October 1, 2012
We are extremely pleased to announce that Eli Ben-Naim of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is assuming the Senior Editor position of Physical Review E (PRE). Eli was previously an Editorial Board Member for the journal, and is an APS Fellow and Outstanding Referee. He is a very active researcher in many areas of relevance to the journal, and deputy group leader for condensed matter and complex systems at LANL. Eli was selected by a search committee chaired by Katepalli Sreenivasan of New York University from a group of outstanding candidates. We welcome Eli into the Physical Review family of journals, and are confident that PRE will continue to flourish while benefiting from his leadership and experience.