About PRX Quantum
PRX Quantum is a highly selective journal in quantum science and technology. As an open access venue with high visibility, it publishes influential research from a broad range of disciplines, shaping the future of quantum science.
Where Quantum Science and Technology Thrives
PRX Quantum showcases research in core areas of quantum information science and technology that are milestone achievements in techniques, experiment, and theory, or that represents an important leap in understanding. Reflecting the diversity of this discipline, the journal publishes creative, impactful research that brings together multiple interdisciplinary fields. We are proud to be an integral part of this community, taking on the challenge of supporting and encouraging its development.
In addition to regular research articles we also present two other types of content: Perspectives and Tutorials. Perspectives are forward-looking articles, aimed at highlighting the significance of recent results, their possible reach and current limitations. The aim is to share the excitement of the field and, at the same time, inform on where new ideas and focused work could have an important impact. Tutorials serve a different purpose: they are hands-on guides for newcomers, aimed at speeding up the training of new experts. They should also aid in bridging the gap between the different parts of the community working on quantum science and technologies. Tutorials are expected to cover well-established concepts of particular relevance on timely topics.
Building on standards established by Physical Review X, PRX Quantum is distinguished by its personalized and responsive editorial process that brings together authors, editors, and referees in a reasoned dialog to direct each article through the rigorous selection process, thus leading to the best possible outcome. PRX Quantum offers flexible article lengths and formats that allow authors to engage and inform a broad audience within the field, while also providing the scientific depth sought by topical specialists.
By Scientists, For Scientists
Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRX Quantum is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This ensures that its mission, standards, and policies prioritize the needs of researchers and the broader scientific community; this commitment is reinforced by APS’s promise as a founding member of the Purpose-Led Publishing coalition.
Submitted manuscripts should demonstrate exceptional achievements according to at least one of the following criteria:
- Exceptional advance: pushing the field of quantum science and technology in a new and consequential direction.
- Exceptional connection: linking different area(s) within quantum science and technology, or between the field and other scientific disciplines.
- Exceptional capabilities: in engineering, computational concepts, techniques, materials, or methodologies allowing to solve major challenges in the topical area(s) of the journal.
- Exceptional insight: addressing a timely topic of high impact and interest across the multidisciplinary quantum science and technology community.
- This journal is funded through article publication charges (APCs), which are due once an article is accepted for publication.
- All articles are published with an open CC-BY (4.0 International) license with authors retaining copyright. This license permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work with proper attribution. APS reviews APCs regularly to ensure that it offers a reasonable and cost-effective publishing option for authors in line with APS’s status as a not-for-profit society publisher.
- APS authors are free to post the final version of their articles on their laboratory, institutional or departmental web sites.
- APS offers authors from lower-income countries the opportunity to publish open access at no cost by automatically offering APC waivers for articles accepted into all hybrid and gold open access titles. Learn more here.
Editorial Board
The PRX Quantum editorial board is a diverse group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members serve three-year terms. They may be requested by the editors to advise at any stage of the review process, and they serve as adjudicators in formal appeals. PRX Quantum’s editorial board serves as a community-based sounding board for the ongoing evolution of the journal and its editorial policies.
Editorial Team
PRX Quantum is managed by a professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists with extensive research experience at major academic institutions and research laboratories around the world. All editorial decisions are based on PRX Quantum acceptance criteria.
High Quality, Visibility, Broad Dissemination
PRX Quantum articles are selected for their high quality. Their authors gain high visibility and achieve broad dissemination of their work by publishing in a high-impact, online-only publication that offers global free access. The editors bring attention to outstanding research and elucidate its importance through a number of features:
- Highly selective, to showcase high-quality, innovative research with lasting and profound impact.
- Popular Summaries: Each article appears with a non-technical Popular Summary, disseminating the article’s main results to a broad readership.
- Featured in Physics: Editors regularly notify Physics, APS’s daily online news and commentary publication, about important papers, resulting in coverage in the forms of Synopsis, Focus, or Viewpoint.
- Publicity: APS promotes press-worthy papers from its journals to journalists through a weekly Tip Sheet, resulting in frequent coverage in industry publications and the popular press, such as Physics World and Business Insider.
- Issue Covers: PRX Quantum features quarterly cover images which further increase the visibility of outstanding papers. These featured papers are selected by our editorial team for their particular impact and relevance.
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Editorial and Publishing Policies
All journals published by APS follow a common set of Editorial Policies and Practices, which cover Editorial Oversight and Decision Making, Authorship, Submissions, Resubmissions, and Transfers, Peer Review, Ethics and Research Integrity, Post Publication, and Open Access and Publications Rights.
PRX Quantum is published electronically one article at a time. Articles are identified by volume number and a six-digit article number, for example, Journal 1, XXXXXX (2020).
PRX Quantum editors can decide to accelerate the review process for a small number of manuscripts that report particularly important or groundbreaking research.