Our reviewers play a pivotal role in ensuring integrity and quality in our publications, and we deeply value the commitments and efforts of every reviewer.
Physical Review E is happy to announce that Celia Anteneodo, Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, joined our editorial team on September 1st, 2026.
Physical Review E is happy to announce that Dibakar Ghosh, Professor in the Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, joined our editorial team on September 1st, 2026.
Physical Review E is happy to announce that Katie Newhall, Professor of Mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, joined our editorial team on September 1st, 2026.
Tewari and Robertson-Anderson present ‘recipes’ to engage the general public with Squishy Science.
After serving 4 years as an academic Associate Editor for Physical Review E, Valerio Lucarini (University of Leicester) has retired from his position.
The six new studies present high-quality findings at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and the physical sciences.
The policy allows authors and reviewers to use AI tools and establishes boundaries to preserve human oversight and accountability.
Nominations for three Chemical Physics prizes are due June 1st.
For the first time, we’re offering perpetual rights as an optional enhancement to your APS All subscription. Own the most influential physics research for years to come with Frontlist Perpetual Rights.
A new retrospective collection celebrates the promotion of the American Physical Society’s (APS) Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP) to Division status (DSNP). Jointly curated by Physical Review E (PRE) editors and DSNP leadership, the collection features influential PRE articles that have helped define these fields over the 30 years since the journal’s debut.
Physical Review E is happy to announce that Anupam Kundu, Associate Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India, joined our editorial team on April 1st, 2026.
APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2026 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.
3 December, 2025
APS Open Science will provide a community-driven platform that broadens recognition for high-quality physics research across all stages of discovery.
APS congratulates José Polo-Gómez, Abhijeet Melkani, and Jayson Paulose as the recipients of the 2026 Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E.
We recognize that the ongoing U.S. government shutdown is affecting many in the scientific community, including authors and reviewers of the Physical Review journals, by delaying projects, disrupting funding, and creating uncertainty.
7 October, 2025
Three APS members have received the prize for experiments with a handheld system that revealed quantum physics in action.
15 July, 2025
High rankings demonstrate the impact, reach, and influence of the American Physical Society’s journals.
25 June, 2025
The ‘About’ pages for each APS journal have recently been updated with new data from the 2024 Journal Citation Reports (2025, Clarivate), CiteScore (Scopus Elsevier) and SCImago Journal Rank (SCImago). View the metrics of the entire library on the Journal Metrics page.
The American Physical Society proudly announces the launch of The Physics Archive, a comprehensive digital library that covers 120 years of groundbreaking research from the world-renowned Physical Review journals.
22 April, 2025
The American Physical Society has received the leading score among publishers participating in the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) in the first evaluation of open science practices in scholarly publishing. With high marks in elements like accessibility, data availability, and article metadata, the Society earned a total score of 20.18 out of 25 — almost double that of the next highest scorer.
Mehran Kardar and Yoshiki Kuramoto will be awarded the prestigious Boltzmann Medal during the StatPhys29 Conference in Florence, Italy.
APS has selected 160 Outstanding Referees for 2025 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.
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Patrick Charbonneau of Duke University has been selected as Lead Editor of Physical Review E.
We are pleased to announce that Nuno Araújo will assume the position of Associate Editor at PRE, effective December 2nd, 2024.
We are excited to announce updates to our journals platform, offering enhanced accessibility features designed to provide a more inclusive experience.
APS congratulates Noémie S. Livné and Michael Moshe as the recipients of the 2025 Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E.
The Physical Review journals would like to congratulate John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto for sharing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
We are pleased to announce that Ananya Mondal assumed the position of Associate Editor at PRE.
1 August, 2024
The policy requires authors to explain where research data can be found starting Sept. 4.
Submissions to the third Gallery of Soft Matter include stunning and thoughtfully crafted images and videos which we hope will captivate both scientists and the general public. It is our pleasure to share the five winning entries in this PRE Guest Editorial.
We are pleased to announce that Bruno Loureiro will assume the position of Associate Editor at PRE, effective November 1st, 2024.
Clarivate Analytics has released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, which provides journal impact factors and rankings for over 11,000 scholarly journals.
We are pleased to announce that Filippo Radicchi assumed the position of Associate Editor at PRE, effective June 3rd, 2024.
We are pleased to announce that Dario Corradini assumed the position of Chief Editor at PRE, effective April 29, 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.
Offer includes Journal Access and waived article publication charges to Scientists in 100+ Lower and Middle Income Countries
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.
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.”
APS Editor in Chief, Randall D. Kamien, discusses the importance and impact of journal reviewers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
APS congratulates the recipients of the 2023 Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper by early career scientists published in Physical Review E.
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.
In this PRE Guest Editorial, the prize winners of the inaugural Gallery of Soft Matter summarize the science behind their entries.
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.
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.
APS is now accepting nominations of members, including self-nominations, for the newly restructured role of APS Editor in Chief (EIC).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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).
7 July, 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).
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
After more than three decades of service to the Physical Review journals, Brant Johnson is stepping down as Associate Editor for Physical Review E.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.”
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.
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.
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.”
The editors of Physical Review E are pleased to announce the Irwin Oppenheim Award for best paper in Physical Review E by young investigators.
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.
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.
The Physical Review journals and Reviews of Modern Physics now make Corrections of minor errors in published papers.
4 January, 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.
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.”
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A discussion of the focus on materials related research in the Physical Review journals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The journals of the American Physical Society welcome and will continue to welcome manuscripts from all countries, with publication based on scientific merit alone.
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.
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.
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.
Pierre Meystre of the University of Arizona has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Physical Review research journals.
