Scope
Physical Review Research welcomes papers from the full spectrum of research topics of interest to the physics community. Research coverage in the journal comprises: fundamental and applied; theoretical and experimental, including technical and methodological advances; and interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas. Subject areas include, but are not limited to:
- acoustics
- artificial intelligence
- astronomy and astrophysics
- atomic and molecular physics
- biological physics
- chemical physics
- climate science
- complex systems and networks
- computational and data-intensive science
- condensed matter physics
- cosmology
- Earth and environmental sciences
- electronics and devices
- energy research
- fluid mechanics
- geophysics
- gravitation
- industrial physics
- information theory
- interdisciplinary research
- magnetism
- materials science
- mathematical physics
- medical physics
- mesoscopics
- metamaterials
- nanoscience and nanotechnology
- nonlinear dynamics
- nuclear physics
- optics
- optoelectronics
- particles and fields
- photonics
- physical chemistry
- physics of living systems
- plasma science and technology
- plasmonics
- polymer science
- polymeric materials
- quantum fluids
- quantum materials
- quantum information and technology
- quantum physics
- scientific machine learning
- semiconductor physics and technology
- soft and active matter
- solid mechanics
- spintronics
- statistical physics and thermodynamics
- string theory
- superconductivity
- superfluidity
- surface science
- topological physics
- zero-, one-, and two-dimensional materials