News for Physical Review X
EDITORIAL
Editorial: PRX Embraces the Vibrant Field of 2D Materials
March 5, 2024
Two PRX Editorial Board members, Liuyan Zhao and Xavier Marie, talk about why PRX is positively welcoming to the field of 2D materials research.
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
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.
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
Dr. Stephen Nagler Named Lead Editor of Physical Review B
December 16, 2022
APS is pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Nagler of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to succeed Dr. Laurens Molenkamp as Lead Editor of Physical Review B. The transition to Dr. Nagler will be effective as of February 1st, 2023.
EDITORIAL
Altermagnetism—A New Punch Line of Fundamental Magnetism
December 8, 2022
Introducing PRX’s second Perspective, Igor Mazin, PRX’s Editorial Board member, and the editors offer their take on why altermagnetism is needed to describe a new class of magnetism.
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
New PRX Lead Editor
May 13, 2022
APS has appointed Denis Bartolo, Professor of Physics at ENS de Lyon, France as the Lead Editor of Physical Review X (PRX). Professor Bartolo takes the helm following the journal’s previous Lead Editors Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond.
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
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
Editorial: Ten Years of PRX
June 30, 2021
Departing Lead Editors Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond reflect on the evolution of the journal and share its anniversary plans.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Jean-Michel Raimond Acting as Interim Lead Editor for PRX
June 22, 2021
Jean-Michel Raimond and Cristina Marchetti, who have been Co-Lead Editors of PRX since May of 2016, are ending their terms and supporting the journal in its search for a new Lead Editor.
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
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
Special Collection on Laser-Plasma Particle Acceleration
November 30, 2020
We are very pleased to offer the readers of Physical Review X a new, carefully curated collection of articles from the vibrant field of laser-plasma particle acceleration. Some of the articles have already been published, and others will be forthcoming. This Collection is the latest in the journal’s series of Special Collections on current or emerging fields and topics.
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
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
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
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
PRX Editor M. Cristina Marchetti Elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 1, 2019
APS congratulates M. Cristina Marchetti, Editor of Physical Review X and Professor of Physics at UC Santa Barbara, on her induction into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The full announcement from NAS is available online.
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
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
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
High Selectivity, Inclusive Scope, and Open Access for All
May 10, 2018
Seven years ago, Physical Review X (PRX) was launched by APS as its first open-access journal to offer high quality coverage of all areas of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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 Open for Submissions
April 4, 2017
APS is now accepting submissions for Physical Review Materials, the newest member of the Physical Review family of journals. PRMaterials expands the scope of the existing APS journals beyond their current emphasis on the physics of materials and will begin publishing mid-2017.
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 Launches Physical Review Materials
February 1, 2017
APS is excited to announce the launch of Physical Review Materials, the latest addition to the Physical Review family of journals. Targeted to start publishing in mid 2017, PRMaterials will provide 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.
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.
EDITORIAL
Physical Review X: High Visibility Across Fields
January 5, 2017
The Editor in Chief and the Lead Editors of Physical Review X discuss their goal to make PRX the place to publish the best cross-field work in a format accessible to a broad readership.
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.
EDITORIAL
Physical Review X: First Five Years and Beyond
May 4, 2016
PRX’s two new Lead Editors, Cristina Marchetti and Jean-Michel Raimond, celebrate PRX’s 5-year anniversary and outline their goals for the future of PRX.
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
PRX Appoints Jean-Michel Raimond and Cristina Marchetti as Editors
February 24, 2016
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean-Michel Raimond, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), France, and Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University, as joint Editors for Physical Review X (PRX) to succeed Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University.
ANNOUNCEMENT
APC Change for Physical Review X
December 22, 2015
Starting January 1, 2016, articles submitted and accepted to Physical Review X will be published upon payment of an article-processing charge (APC). Read more here.
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
Expanding the Liquid Helium Purchasing Program
August 28, 2015
The APS Office of Public Affairs (OPA), in partnership with the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), have established the Liquid Helium Purchasing Program (LHeP2) to improve liquid helium purchasing for researchers who receive federal funding. OPA pilot tested LHeP2 with a small group and is now expanding the program to additional participants, with priority given to APS and ACS Members. Interested parties should contact OPA by September 25. Additional details and contact information is available on the LHeP2 website.
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.
JOB OPENING
Physical Review X seeks an Assistant Editor
March 1, 2015
Physical Review X, a young, dynamic, broad-scope, and highly selective journal of the American Physical Society, seeks a highly motivated physicist with independent research experience and a strong sense of professionalism to join its editorial team as an Assistant Editor.
EDITORIAL
Does Research on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics Fit into PRX’s Scope?
October 24, 2014
The editors and Bill Poirier from Texas Tech University spotlight an original, thought-provoking paper by Hall, Deckert, and Wiseman on foundations of quantum mechanics, Phys. Rev. X, 4, 041013 (2014).
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:
COMMENTARY
Coming Down the Editorial Fence – Not Random
September 26, 2014
Do editors just toss a coin to reach their decision of acceptance or rejection of a paper when there are valid reasons both for and against either decision? The PRX editors use the case of their consideration of Phys Rev X, 4 031056 (2014) to answer this question.
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.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Bringing New Light to High-Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions
July 17, 2014
The editors invite Daniel Errandonea from Universitat de Valencia of Spain to explain why the just-published paper by Tröster et al. Phys. Rev. X, 4, 031010 (2014) should be read by a broad spectrum of researchers from those in the material physics community to those interested in statistical physics of phase transitions.
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
Physical Review X seeks an Assistant Editor
February 18, 2014
Physical Review X, young, dynamic, broad-scope, and highly selective, seeks a very motivated physicist with independent research experience and a strong sense of professionalism to join its editorial team as an Assistant Editor.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: A Timely Contribution to a Half-Century-Old Topic
February 10, 2014
The editors and Göran Grimvall from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) of Sweden explain why the just-published paper by Glensk et al. [Phys. Rev. X 4, 011018 (2014)] deserves broad dissemination and special recognition.
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
Physical Review X opens Special Section on Metamaterials
October 21, 2013
Special Section on Metamaterials, the first in PRX's new series of special sections on current and emerging fields and topics, will showcase a sample of the most active research topics in the field of metamaterials. Such special sections will appear from time to time.
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
Physical Review X Receives First Impact Factor
July 2, 2013
The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to announce that Physical Review X (PRX) has received its first impact factor of 6.711 according to the 2012 Journal Citation Report, published by Thomson Reuters.
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
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
Editorial: PRX’s Scope and Standards: A Case in Point
July 31, 2012
The editors of PRX and David DiVincenzo share with readers their views of the just published paper by Jones et al. on quantum-computer architecture.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Current Graphene Research—Going beyond the Pure Monolayer
January 31, 2012
The editors and experts briefly discuss three papers on graphene physics in this issue.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: A Cross-Section of the Current Research on High-Temperature Superconductivity
September 15, 2011
Discovering new high-temperature superconductors and understanding their physics have been a quest in condensed matter physics. Fortuitously, a collection of three papers on three different classes of high-temperature superconductors of current interest has come together as a part of the inaugural issue of Physical Review X.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review X: Recent papers
August 19, 2011
We are happy to present the papers that are recently published in our new, open access journal, Physical Review X. These papers, together with others that are to be published in the coming weeks into September, will constitute the first issue of the journal. Under Physical Review X's open access publishing model, they are free for you to read and use.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review X: What does it offer?
Some opening words from the editors
May 4, 2011
Today, the American Physical Society officially launches a new, online-only, open access journal, Physical Review X (PRX). One of the foremost questions researchers must have is: What are its scientific standards?