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.
The six new studies present high-quality findings at the intersection of AI, machine learning, and the physical sciences.
APS is delighted to announce the appointment of Giulio Biroli as an Associate Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics.
The policy allows authors and reviewers to use AI tools and establishes boundaries to preserve human oversight and accountability.
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.
Ten high-quality studies by authors from around the world have found a home in the American Physical Society’s new community-driven, open access journal.
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.
APS is delighted to announce the appointment of Giulia Galli as an Associate Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics.
APS is delighted to announce the appointment of Urbasi Sinha as an Associate Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics.
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.
19 November, 2025
PRX Intelligence will publish high-impact research on artificial intelligence and machine learning that advances the physical sciences.
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.
After announcing their new result at the Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, CA, the DESI collaboration submitted their Data Release 2 papers to Physical Review D, which are now published.
See the Special Issue here.
APS is delighted to announce the appointment of Sujit Datta to the position of Chief Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics.
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.
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 excited to announce updates to our journals platform, offering enhanced accessibility features designed to provide a more inclusive experience.
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.”
Conny Aerts is a Full Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven and received her Ph.D. from KU Leuven in 1993.
1 August, 2024
The policy requires authors to explain where research data can be found starting Sept. 4.
Clarivate Analytics has released the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, which provides journal impact factors and rankings for over 11,000 scholarly journals.
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.
APS congratulates David DiVincenzo on his induction into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
Offer includes Journal Access and waived article publication charges to Scientists in 100+ Lower and Middle Income Countries
Vivien Zapf is a condensed matter experimentalist at the National High Magnetic Field Lab at Los Alamos National Lab where she has worked since 2004. She studies magnetic materials, in particular quantum magnetism and magnetoelectric coupling and specializes in thermodynamic and magnetoelectric measurements at low and high magnetic fields.
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.
Philip W. Phillips is a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a condensed matter theorist whose work focuses on transport and magnetic phenomena stemming from the breakdown of the quasiparticle concept in strongly correlated and topology quantum matter.
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.
The 2021 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
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.
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.
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).
Olga Dudko is a theoretical physicist who studies the phenomena of the living world. Her research is driven by the notion that deep, physics-based conceptual approaches can encompass the complexity of living systems.
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, and Andrea Ghez. This paper is the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
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.
Thomas Powers is a theoretical physicist working in soft matter physics and fluid mechanics. His current interests include colloids, liquid crystals, membranes, and active matter, as well as the hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms.
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).
Karin Rabe is a computational materials physicist with a particular interest in the use of first-principles quantum-mechanical calculations for integrated experimental-theoretical design of new functional materials. These include systems at or near structural, electronic and magnetic phase transitions, including ferroelectrics, antiferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, high-k dielectrics, multiferroics, and switchable conductors.
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.
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.
RMP Associate Editor Pierre Ramond has won the 2020 Dirac Medal. See the full announcement from ICTP.
Lead Editor, Randall D. Kamien and new Colloquium Editor, Dietrich Belitz, discuss the role of Colloquia in Reviews of Modern Physics.
Dietrich Belitz is a theoretical physicist working at the boundary between statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics. His principal interest has been focused on quantum many-body problems, including superconductivity, magnetism, transport processes, and quantum phase transitions.
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 2019 APS Medal for Excellence in Physics was given to Bertrand I. Halperin. This contribution was invited in conjunction with this award. This article is an extended version of a talk given at the March 2019 meeting of the American Physical Society, summarizing the author’s work in areas linked to topological aspects of classical and quantum physics. Read Article
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Didier Queloz, Michel Mayor, and James Peebles. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
Véronique Van Elewyck is an astroparticle physicist with a background in neutrino phenomenology. She has contributed to the development of detectors and methods for multi-messenger astronomy, first with the Pierre Auger Observatory, then with the Mediterranean neutrino telescopes ANTARES and KM3NeT. She has coordinated several projects promoting the potential of deep-sea neutrino telescopes for interdisciplinary science.
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).
Mark Stiles is a theoretical condensed matter physicist who has worked on a wide range of problems especially magnetism, spintronics, and neuromorphic computing. He made particular contributions to understanding interlayer exchange coupling, exchange bias, spin-transfer torques, and spin-orbit torques.
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.
Dam Thanh Son is a theoretical physicist working in a wide range of problems spanning string theory, heavy-ion physics, condensed matter and atomic physics. Dam Thanh Son pioneered the application of methods of gauge/gravity duality to the physics of the quark gluon plasma. He has made important contributions to the physics of the fractional quantum Hall effect, dense nuclear matter and ultracold atomic gases.
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.
William Collins is an internationally recognized expert in climate modeling and climate change science. His personal research concerns the interactions among greenhouse gases and aerosols, the coupled climate system, and global environmental change.
Roxanne Springer has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech and is currently a professor of physics at Duke University. Her research interests are effective field theories of QCD and weak interactions. She was in the chair line of the Southeastern Section of the APS from 2010-2014, on the Executive Committee of the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP) from 2015-2017, and currently serves on the APS DNP Anti-harassment Committee. She is a Fellow of the APS.
The 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Gerard Mourou, Arthur Askin, and Donna Strickland. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
The editors of Reviews of Modern Physics discuss the future of the journal and its plans to continue to serve the community.
Hiroaki Aihara is Professor of Physics and deputy director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo.
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.
Lead Editor, Randall Kamien, discusses how Reviews of Modern Physics has evolved over the last 90 years and an indication of the future direction.
Join us for a special session at the 2019 March Meeting to celebrate 90 years of RMP with some of the journal’s most widely read and cited authors.
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.
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
The 2016 APS Medal for Excellence in Physics was given to Edward Witten. This contribution was invited in conjunction with this award. These original notes contain concise explanations of some key results in the axiomatic and algebraic approaches to quantum field theory, which are relevant to quantum entanglement. They serve to put the connection between quantum field theory and quantum information theory on a precise and rigorous footing. Read Article
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.
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.”
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.
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.
The Physical Review journals and Reviews of Modern Physics now make Corrections of minor errors in published papers.
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and John Michael Kosterlitz. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
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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The American Physical Society (APS) has appointed Dr. Randall Kamien, Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, as the lead editor of Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP). He takes over this role from Dr. Achim Richter, who has served as RMP’s lead editor since 2005. Dr. Kamien formerly served as an associate editor for RMP from 2006 to 2010 and begins his new role September 11, 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.
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.
The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Reviews of Modern Physics.
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.
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.
The 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
Pierre Meystre of the University of Arizona has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Physical Review research journals.
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.
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.
Beginning in January 2016 Reviews of Modern Physics is replacing the current page numbering with a six digit article identifier.
Asia-Pacific region publishing manager for UK Institute of Physics to join top management staff of the American Physical Society.
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was shared by Eric Betzig, Stefen W. Hell, and William E. Moerner. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
Nobel Lecture: Single molecules, cells, and super-resolution optics
Eric Betzig
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1153 (2015)
Nobel Lecture: Nanoscopy with freely propagating light
Stefan W. Hell
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1169 (2015)
Nobel Lecture: Single-molecule spectroscopy, imaging, and photocontrol: Foundations for super-resolution microscopy
W. E. (William E.) Moerner
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1183 (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.
The 2014 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano, and Shuji Nakamura. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.
Nobel Lecture: Background story of the invention of efficient blue InGaN light emitting diodes
Shuji Nakamura
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1139 (2015)
Nobel Lecture: Growth of GaN on sapphire via low-temperature deposited buffer layer and realization of p-type GaN by Mg doping followed by low-energy electron beam irradiation
Hiroshi Amano
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1133 (2015)
Nobel Lecture: Fascinated journeys into blue light
Isamu Akasaki
Rev. Mod. Phys. 87, 1119 (2015)
