News for Physical Review A
ANNOUNCEMENT
APS Releases Refreshed Data Availability Policy for the Physical Review Journals
August 1, 2024
The policy requires authors to explain where research data can be found starting Sept. 4.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review A is looking for a new part-time Associate Editor
July 11, 2024
Physical Review A (PRA) is looking for a new part-time Associate Editor with international scientific standing in the area of quantum science to join our editorial team and become part of the stimulating academic endeavor to bring high-quality papers to our readership.
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.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!
May 21, 2024
When determining the authorship list for your next paper, be generous yet disciplined.
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.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: Enhancing Physical Review A Letters
January 4, 2023
Physical Review A is excited to offer better visibility and a tailored abstract for our popular Letter articles.
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
Cloud Quantum Computing Demonstrations in Physical Review A
October 6, 2022
With the recent availability of multiple platforms for cloud quantum computing, Physical Review A is formalizing some expectations for manuscripts reporting work that makes use of such platforms.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Davide Girolami
September 1, 2022
We welcome Davide Girolami (Politecnico di Torino), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
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
Margaret Reid Retires from Physical Review A
July 5, 2022
After serving as a remote Associate Editor for Physical Review A for three years, Margaret Reid is retiring from her editorial position. Margaret handled close to 700 papers in the area of quantum foundations, nonlocality, and quantum coherence with great expertise, and we are very grateful for her contribution as an editor and her efforts on behalf of PRA.
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
Mark Saffman retires from Physical Review A
February 1, 2022
After serving more than 18 years in total as a remote Associate Editor for Physical Review E, and then Physical Review A, Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) has retired from his position.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Daniel Leykam
December 20, 2021
We welcome Daniel Leykam (National University of Singapore), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
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
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
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
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
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
Changes to the Sections of Physical Review A
July 1, 2020
We are reorganizing and modernizing the sectioning scheme of Physical Review A (PRA). As of July 1, 2020, the journal will include eight sections instead of the previous seven.
EDITORIAL
Editorial: 50 Years of Physical Review A, B, C, and D
June 11, 2020
Editor in Chief, Michael Thoennessen, celebrates the 50th anniversary of Physical Review A, B, C, and D.
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 A - Ugo Ancarani
December 13, 2019
We welcome Ugo Ancarani (Université de Lorraine) to the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
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
Retirement of Physical Review A editors
September 30, 2019
Over the last months several new editors have been welcomed to our team and had overlap with some of our highly-esteemed editors who depart this month.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Gabriele De Chiara
August 1, 2019
We welcome Gabriele De Chiara (Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Margaret D. Reid
June 21, 2019
We welcome Professor Margaret D. Reid (Centre for Quantum and Optical Science, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A - Bill Munro
January 3, 2019
We welcome Bill Munro (NTT’s Basic Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan), who joins the editorial staff of Physical Review A as a remote Associate Editor.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Gordon Drake Retires as Lead Editor of PRA
December 20, 2018
After almost thirteen years at the helm of Physical Review A, Gordon Drake of the University of Windsor is retiring from his position as Lead Editor of PRA.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Jan Michael Rost Selected as Lead Editor of Physical Review A
December 7, 2018
The American Physical Society (APS) has appointed Dr. Jan Michael Rost, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany, as the Lead Editor of Physical Review A (PRA). He takes over this role from Dr. Gordon Drake, who has served as PRA’s Lead Editor since February 2006. Dr. Rost formerly served as an Editorial Board member for PRA from January 2004 to December 2006 and begins his new role January 1, 2019.
ANNOUNCEMENT
In Memory of Bernd Crasemann
November 5, 2018
We are saddened to report the passing of our dear friend and colleague Bernd Crasemann, former Editor of Physical Review A, on the morning of Sunday, October 28, 2018, at the age of 96.
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
The Fundamental Role of Precision Measurement in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics—a New Section Heading for Physical Review A
July 2, 2018
In order to recognize the expanding interest in high-precision measurement of atomic and molecular properties as well as fundamental constants, starting July 2018, Physical Review A is explicitly adding high-precision measurement to the heading of its structure and dynamics section. The revised section title now reads Atomic and molecular structure and dynamics; high-precision measurement.
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.
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.
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
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
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
In Memory of Keith B. MacAdam
November 8, 2016
It is with great sadness that we must report the passing of our dear friend and colleague, and former Associate Editor of Physical Review A, Keith B. MacAdam, on the morning of Sunday, November 6, 2016.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Lee Collins Retires from Physical Review A
August 29, 2016
After more than 20 years as an Associate Editor for Physical Review A, Lee Collins has decided to retire from his editorial position.
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
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A
March 30, 2016
Physical Review A announces a new Associate Editor.
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.
EDITORIAL
Adding Quantum Information to Our Statement of Coverage for Physical Review A
January 19, 2016
Physical Review A will now include Quantum Information in the broad list of topics covered.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Keith MacAdam Retires from Physical Review A
December 23, 2015
After serving almost ten years as a remote Associate Editor for Physical Review A, Keith MacAdam has decided to retire from his position, effective December 31, 2015.
ANNOUNCEMENT
New Associate Editor for Physical Review A
December 16, 2015
Physical Review A announces a new Associate Editor.
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
New and Departing Associate Editors in Physical Review A
November 23, 2015
Physical Review A announces new and departing Associate Editors.
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
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.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Physical Review A Editor Gordon Drake wins award for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics
March 17, 2015
The 2015 CAP-COMP Peter Kirkby Memorial Medal for Outstanding Service to Canadian Physics is awarded to Physical Review A (PRA) Editor Gordon Drake.
EDITORIAL
Results of the 2014 Physical Review A Survey
January 5, 2015
In April of last year, the Editors of Physical Review A conducted a broad survey of the community in order to obtain feedback on the journal. In this Editorial, we address the results of the survey and our response to some of the most frequently made comments.
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 and Discontinuation of Brief Reports in Physical Review A
December 11, 2014
Starting January 1, 2015, Physical Review A is increasing its length limit for Rapid Communications, and at the same time is discontinuing its Brief Reports section.
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
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: Changes to the Sections of Physical Review A
January 2, 2014
As of January 1, 2014, the journal will include seven sections rather than the previous nine. The section on Photon, electron, atom, and molecule interactions with solids and surfaces as well as the section on Clusters have steadily declined in volume over the recent years. Each one of them now contains less than one percent of the papers published in Physical Review A. Therefore, the editors feel that maintaining separate sections for these papers is no longer appropriate, even though papers on the fundamental physics of these systems are still welcome.
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: PRA Editors’ Suggestions
August 1, 2013
As a service to our readers, starting August 1 we will formally mark a small number of papers published in Physical Review A that the editors and referees find of particular interest, importance, or clarity.
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.