Scope and Organizational Format
Physical Review Letters is an internationally read physics journal, describing a diverse readership. Advances in physics, as well as cross disciplinary developments, are disseminated weekly, via this publication. Topics covered by this journal are also the explicit titles for each section of the journal. Sections are delineated (in the table of contents) as follows:
- General Physics: Statistical and Quantum mechanics, Quantum information, etc.
- Gravitation and Astrophysics
- Elementary Particles and Fields
- Nuclear physics
- Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics
- Nonlinear dynamics, Fluid dynamics, Classical optics, etc.
- Plasma and Beam physics
- Condensed matter: Structure, etc.
- Condensed Matter: Semiconductor-Electronic properties, etc.
- Soft matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary physics
Worthy of note is a section which consists of emphasized articles. This section is designed to be articles suggested by the editors of the journal, which have been covered by Viewpoint in Physics. Further criteria for these selections are these may be features in Physical Review Focus, or these selections are worthy of note for other reasons.
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