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.

PRX Quantum has published a series of exciting, forward-looking articles in a special new category: Roadmaps. The papers focus on the outcomes of a meeting centered around the US National Quantum Initiative, and provide detail on a potential path to tackling the main challenges in the field.

PRX Quantum, the newest highly selective open access journal published by the American Physical Society (APS), has published its first Tutorial, “Theory of quantum system certification” by Martin Kliesch, University Düsseldorf and Ingo Roth, Freie Universität Berlin. This paper is the first example of the new Tutorial article type published in the Physical Review journals.

APS has appointed Beverley McKeon (California Institute of Technology) and Eric Lauga (University of Cambridge) as Lead Editors for the Physical Review Fluids as of February 1, 2021. They take the helm following the journal’s founding Editors John Kim and Gary Leal.

It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing in November 2020 of our former colleague, Jack Sandweiss, who was Editor of PRL for a quarter of a century (1987-2013).

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

Physical Review Letters seeks a new Associate Editor at its Ridge, NY office. Duties include all phases of the peer review process, attendance at meetings, and visits to research institutions around the world, among others. Please see our ad for more details.

The editors of Physical Review A seek a dynamic and personable colleague for the position of Associate Editor. The primary responsibility is to manage the peer review process and decide, aided by expert input, which papers merit publication according to the journal’s criteria. More details