Guidelines for Section Selection for Physical Review A
Sections are listed below with representative specific topics. The listing of topics is not complete, and if a specific topic is not listed authors should suggest the section they consider most appropriate. The editors may choose to assign papers to a section other than that suggested by the authors.
A-1E: Fundamental Concepts
- Test of fundamental laws and interactions
- Metrology, and determination of fundamental constants
- Special relativity
- Quantum electrodynamics
- Fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics (including axiomatic
quantum mechanics, quantum contextuality, Bell tests, and quantum
interpretations)
- Uncertainty relations
- Geometric phases
- Quantum measurements and estimation
- Open quantum systems and decoherence
- Quantum thermodynamics
- Quantum dynamics in chemical and biological systems
- Quantum information theory
- Tomography, state and process identification and verification
- Quantum resource theory
- Quantum correlations, entanglement
- Methods to simulate quantum many-body systems (including matrix
product states and tensor networks)
- Quantum complexity theory
- Quantum information processing
- Quantum protocols (including Boson sampling and quantum
teleportation)
- Quantum algorithms, gates, and error correction
- Quantum machine learning
A-3E: Quantum Technologies
- Quantum communication and cryptography
- Quantum computation and simulation (architectures and implementations)
- Quantum metrology, sensing, and imaging
- Quantum hardware: engineering and technologies
- Quantum networks and quantum memory
- Hybrid quantum systems
- Quantum control and feedback
A-4E: Atomic and Molecular Structure and Dynamics; High-Precision Experiments
- Atomic and molecular structure, including fine and hyperfine structure
- Relativistic calculations including corrections from quantum
electrodynamics
- Casimir effect and related phenomena
- High-precision experiments including tests of fundamental symmetries,
electric dipole moment and dark matter searches
- Atomic and molecular spectroscopy, atomic clocks, frequency combs,
and standards
- Weak-field photoionization, -excitation, and -dissociation
- Collisions of electrons, ions, and atoms with atoms, molecules, clusters,
solids, and surfaces, including collective phenomena
- Collisions involving bio- and macromolecules, antimatter, and exotic
particles
- Potential energy surfaces for collisions
- Numerical methods in atomic and molecular physics including machine
learning
A-5E: Light-Induced Processes in Atomic-Scale Systems
- Generation and applications of attosecond pulses
- Light-induced femtosecond and attosecond dynamics
- High-harmonic generation with atoms, molecules, clusters, solids, and
surfaces
- Coherent control
- Other strong-field effects, including above-threshold ionization,
multiphoton processes, and chirality
- Time-resolved and ultrafast spectroscopy and imaging
- Trapping and cooling
A-6E: Ultracold Systems and Matter Waves
- Bose-Einstein condensation and related phenomena
- Ultracold Bose gases and Fermi gases; quantum mixtures and impurities
- Many-body physics in ultracold gases, coherent coupling, many-body
localization, supersolidity, and time crystals
- Artificial gauge fields and topological phenomena in ultracold matter
- Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
- Transport and out-of-equilibrium phenomena in ultracold gases
- Ultracold few-body physics
- Ultracold molecules and quantum chemistry
- Ultracold Rydberg physics
- Atom interferometry and matter waves
A-7E: Photonics, Nonlinear Optics, and Optomechanics
- Geometrical and wave optics, singular optics, and imaging
- Optical interferometry
- Guided waves in optical fibers and integrated optical devices
- Nonlinear optics, including generation of strong optical fields and
ultrashort pulses
- Parametric amplification and nonlinear wave mixing
- Physics of lasers and other active media
- Orbital angular momentum and optical vortices
- Solitons
- Microcavities
- Mechanical effects of light; optical trapping and optical tweezers
- Quantum optomechanics and cavity-optomechanical systems
- Metamaterials, topological photonics, photonic crystals, and other
optical materials
- Plasmonics
A-8E: Quantum Optics
- Interaction between matter and quantized radiation
- Coherent light-matter interfaces including slow and stored light, quantum memories, electromagnetically induced transparency, and coherent population trapping
- Properties of radiation fields; quantum noise; correlations and photon statistics
- Quantum state engineering
- Cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics; atoms and ions in cavities
- Superconducting microwave circuits exhibiting quantum effects
- Quantum fluids of light, polariton and photon condensates
- Vacancies and impurities
