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Physical Review Research (PRResearch) is a fully open access, peer-reviewed journal welcoming the full spectrum of research topics of interest to the physics community and offering authors and readers the Physical Review experience and quality they value and trust.

PRResearch is a peer-reviewed, international, multidisciplinary journal covering all research topics of interest to physicists and researchers in related fields. It complements other titles in the portfolio by offering an option for authors across the physics community who value and trust the publishing experience and quality of Physical Review journals, and also want or need to publish in a fully open access publication.

Among the open access titles published by APS, PRResearch will complement Physical Review X (PRX), which has a similarly broad scope but is extremely selective as the highest impact, fully open access, multidisciplinary physics journal in the world.

The open access publishing model supports the goals of the journal—to broadly disseminate high-quality research from all of physics, the physical sciences, and interdisciplinary areas to a global audience, with the intention of initiating conversations across traditional boundaries, facilitating new opportunities for collaboration, and enabling future discoveries.

By advancing and disseminating scientific research and discovery, promoting physics, and serving the broader physics community, PRResearch will directly support the mission of APS.

By Scientists, For Scientists

Like all of the journals in the Physical Review family, PRResearch is shaped by researchers to serve the research community. This commitment ensures that its mission and standards prioritize the needs of researchers.

PRResearch 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. A more detailed description of the scope of the journal can be found here .

The acceptance criteria for PRResearch are aligned with those of other long-established journals in the family, such as Physical Review A , B , C , D , and E . Manuscripts directly submitted, or transferred from PRX or another journal in the family, to PRResearch should:

• Present important and novel results that advance a particular field of research
• Generate interest for readers with a connection to physics
• Represent an authoritative and substantive addition to the body of literature
• Explore the subject matter comprehensively and thoroughly

At the core of APS's mission is a commitment to meeting the needs of physicists, a community that has been at the leading edge of open access. APS supports the principles of open access to the maximum extent possible that allows the Society to maintain peer-reviewed high-quality journals, secure archiving, and the Society's long‑term financial stability, to the benefit of the scientific enterprise.

Physical Review Research (PRResearch) is a fully open access journal that makes all articles immediately free to read, and allows reuse by readers anywhere in the world under a CC-BY license.

• PRResearch authors pay an article publication charge (APC) to make accepted manuscripts immediately open access under a CC-BY 4.0 International license.
• In keeping with APS's community orientation, the CC-BY 4.0 International is the most permissive license available and permits anyone to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work with proper attribution. Authors retain copyright to their articles under this license.
• APC pricing for PRResearch is aligned with the open access APC pricing for hybrid journals in the Physical Review family with similar acceptance criteria, including: PRA, PRB, PRC, PRD, PRE, PRApplied (regular research articles), PRFluids , and PRMaterials . The current APC pricing for all open access and hybrid journals published by APS can be found here .
• APS makes all of its journals free to read at U.S. public libraries and high schools by application . Contact [email protected] for more information.
• Publication costs are waived for authors from countries for which APS offers free online access to its subscription journals.
• APS is a founding member of CHORUS , which enables distributed public access to published research articles reporting on U.S. federal government-funded research.

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PRResearch has been submitted for inclusion in the Journal Citation Reports from Clarivate Analytics Web of Science. It is currently included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index .

Editorial Board

The Editorial board of Physical Review Research is a diverse, global group of active, distinguished scientists, selected by editors and appointed by the Executive Editor. Board members advise the editorial staff throughout the review and formal appeal processes.

Peer review for Physical Review Research will be managed by the professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists who work together on other Physical Review journals. All editorial decisions are based on the PRResearch acceptance criteria, stated above.

High Visibility, Broad Dissemination

PRResearch authors will gain value through the high visibility and broad dissemination of their work by publishing in a fully open access publication that covers the whole spectrum of physics, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary research. In addition to reaching a general and diverse audience of readers, your research will benefit from increased recognition and impact through a number of features:

• Open Access: The fully open access publishing model increases readership by making all articles immediately free to read, and allows reuse by readers anywhere in the world under a CC-BY 4.0 International license.
• Editors’ Suggestions: Selected papers will be chosen to direct readers to interesting and well-written articles in areas of research beyond their usual area of focus. On average these featured papers will receive more downloads and citations.
• Featured in Physics : Papers of particular interest to a broad readership will receive additional coverage by being featured in the online magazine Physics , which provides news and expert commentary about research for the physics community.
• Publicity: Interest-generating papers will be promoted on the journal website, to journalists, and via social media, which increases the likelihood your research will be covered by industry publications and the popular press

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Editorial and Publishing Policies

All Physical Review journals, including Reviews of Modern Physics , 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 .

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Volume 6, Issue 2 (partial)

April - june 2024, resonant excitation of plasma waves in a plasma channel, a. j. ross, j. chappell, j. j. van de wetering, j. cowley, e. archer, n. bourgeois, l. corner, d. r. emerson, l. feder, x. j. gu, o. jakobsson, h. jones, a. picksley, l. reid, w. wang, r. walczak, and s. m. hooker, phys. rev. research 6 , l022001 (2024) – published 3 april 2024.

A train of laser pulses guided by a 100-mm-long, all-optical plasma channel resonantly excites a large amplitude plasma wave. Pulse trains of a similar kind could be generated by joule-scale thin-disk lasers, offering a route to driving GeV-scale plasma accelerators at kilohertz pulse repetition rates.

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• Plasma Physics

Tuning the Josephson diode response with an ac current

Rubén seoane souto, martin leijnse, constantin schrade, marco valentini, georgios katsaros, and jeroen danon, phys. rev. research 6 , l022002 (2024) – published 3 april 2024.

How an ac driving can tune the diode efficiency of an arbitrary supercurrent diode is shown. Unit efficiency can be achieved in the slow-driving regime.

• Quantum Physics

N -body antibunching in a degenerate Fermi gas of He * 3 atoms

Kieran f. thomas, shijie li, a. h. abbas, andrew g. truscott, and sean s. hodgman, phys. rev. research 6 , l022003 (2024) – published 3 april 2024.

Correlation functions up to the fifth order between atoms in a degenerate Fermi gas of metastable helium atoms are measured, with antibunching observed for all orders in a direct demonstration of the Pauli exclusion principle. The results agree well with a simple model based on the decomposition of higher order correlation functions into lower orders via Wick’s theorem.

• Atomic and Molecular Physics

Probing Purcell enhancement and photon collection efficiency of InAs quantum dots at nodes of the cavity electric field

Matthew jordan, petros androvitsaneas, rachel n. clark, aristotelis trapalis, ian farrer, wolfgang langbein, and anthony j. bennett, phys. rev. research 6 , l022004 (2024) – published 4 april 2024.

By placing quantum-dot emitters at different positions in the cavity mode of the electric field within a GaAs-Al 0 . 95 Ga 0 . 05 As micropillar, the effects of noncavity modes on Purcell factor, β factor, and collection efficiency are quantified, with results suggesting common experimental practice systematically overestimates the Purcell factor. It is also shown that the zero-phonon line and phonon-assisted emission into the cavity mode HE 11 is suppressed by positioning dots at the field node.

• Condensed Matter Physics
• Materials Science

Chiral excitations and the intermediate-field regime in the Kitaev magnet α − RuCl 3

Anuja sahasrabudhe, mikhail a. prosnikov, thomas c. koethe, philipp stein, vladimir tsurkan, alois loidl, markus grüninger, hamoon hedayat, and paul h. m. van loosdrecht, phys. rev. research 6 , l022005 (2024) – published 5 april 2024.

Raman optical activity provides direct spectroscopic evidence for the existence of a highly unconventional field-induced phase in the proximate Kitaev material α -RuCl 3 . This phase is characterized by the presence of fully chiral magnetic excitations.

Robust incoherent perfect absorption

H. s. xu and l. jin, phys. rev. research 6 , l022006 (2024) – published 5 april 2024.

A novel approach using the interplay between loss and localization to achieve incoherent perfect absorption is proposed. By engineering the losses of a flat-band lattice, a robust incoherent perfect absorption that is immune to disorder and defects is demonstrated.

Scrambling and recovery of quantum information in inhomogeneous quenches in two-dimensional conformal field theories

Kanato goto, masahiro nozaki, shinsei ryu, kotaro tamaoka, and mao tian tan, phys. rev. research 6 , 023001 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• String Theory

Security proof for variable-length quantum key distribution

Devashish tupkary, ernest y.-z. tan, and norbert lütkenhaus, phys. rev. research 6 , 023002 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• Quantum Information

Combined experimental and theoretical studies on glasslike transitions in the frustrated molecular conductors θ − ( BEDT − TTF ) 2 M M ′ ( SCN ) 4

Yohei saito, owen ganter, chao shang, kenichiro hashimoto, takahiko sasaki, stephen m. winter, jens müller, and michael lang, phys. rev. research 6 , 023003 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• Strongly Correlated Materials

Non-Hermitian topology and criticality in photonic arrays with engineered losses

Elizabeth louis pereira, hongwei li, andrea blanco-redondo, and jose l. lado, phys. rev. research 6 , 023004 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• Metamaterials

Microwave frequency transfer over 3000-km fiber based on optical frequency combs and active noise cancellation

Dongrui yu, ziyang chen, yufei zhang, ziyi jin, song yu, bin luo, and hong guo, phys. rev. research 6 , 023005 (2024) – published 1 april 2024, holographic-(v)ae: an end-to-end so(3)-equivariant (variational) autoencoder in fourier space, gian marco visani, michael n. pun, arman angaji, and armita nourmohammad, phys. rev. research 6 , 023006 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• Biological Physics
• Computational Physics
• Interdisciplinary Physics

Fluctuation theorem on a Riemannian manifold

Yifan cai, tao wang, and liu zhao, phys. rev. research 6 , 023007 (2024) – published 1 april 2024.

• Statistical Physics

Memory-induced excitability in optical cavities

B. braeckeveldt, k. j. h. peters, b. verdonschot, b. maes, and s. r. k. rodriguez, phys. rev. research 6 , 023008 (2024) – published 2 april 2024.

• Nonlinear Dynamics

Variational quantum eigensolver with embedded entanglement using a tensor-network ansatz

Ryo watanabe, keisuke fujii, and hiroshi ueda, phys. rev. research 6 , 023009 (2024) – published 2 april 2024, realizing efficient topological temporal pumping in electrical circuits, alexander stegmaier, hauke brand, stefan imhof, alexander fritzsche, tobias helbig, tobias hofmann, igor boettcher, martin greiter, ching hua lee, gaurav bahl, alexander szameit, tobias kießling, ronny thomale, and lavi k. upreti, phys. rev. research 6 , 023010 (2024) – published 2 april 2024, microwave-tunable diode effect in asymmetric squids with topological josephson junctions, joseph j. cuozzo, wei pan, javad shabani, and enrico rossi, phys. rev. research 6 , 023011 (2024) – published 2 april 2024, closed and open unbalanced dicke trimer model: critical properties and nonlinear semiclassical dynamics, cheng zhang, pengfei liang, neill lambert, and mauro cirio, phys. rev. research 6 , 023012 (2024) – published 2 april 2024, imaging the dynamics of initial laser-driven shocks and blowoff plasmas in polystyrene under laser-direct-drive fusion conditions, k. r. p. kafka, s. x. hu, h. huang, v. n. goncharov, and s. g. demos, phys. rev. research 6 , 023013 (2024) – published 3 april 2024, deciphering non-gaussianity of diffusion based on the evolution of diffusivity, haolan xu, xu zheng, and xinghua shi, phys. rev. research 6 , 023014 (2024) – published 3 april 2024, reservoir engineering for classical nonlinear fields, benedikt tissot, hugo ribeiro, and florian marquardt, phys. rev. research 6 , 023015 (2024) – published 3 april 2024, modeling collective behaviors from optic flow and retinal cues, diego castro, franck ruffier, and christophe eloy, phys. rev. research 6 , 023016 (2024) – published 4 april 2024.

• Soft Matter

Detecting axion dark matter with Rydberg atoms via induced electric dipole transitions

Georg engelhardt, amit bhoonah, and w. vincent liu, phys. rev. research 6 , 023017 (2024) – published 4 april 2024.

• Particles and Fields

From asynchronous states to Griffiths phases and back: Structural heterogeneity and homeostasis in excitatory-inhibitory networks

Jorge pretel, victor buendía, joaquín j. torres, and miguel a. muñoz, phys. rev. research 6 , 023018 (2024) – published 4 april 2024.

• Complex Systems

Hierarchy of multipartite correlations based on concentratable entanglement

Louis schatzki, guangkuo liu, m. cerezo, and eric chitambar, phys. rev. research 6 , 023019 (2024) – published 4 april 2024, enhancing quantum adversarial robustness by randomized encodings, weiyuan gong, dong yuan, weikang li, and dong-ling deng, phys. rev. research 6 , 023020 (2024) – published 4 april 2024, hybrid ground-state quantum algorithms based on neural schrödinger forging, paulin de schoulepnikoff, oriel kiss, sofia vallecorsa, giuseppe carleo, and michele grossi, phys. rev. research 6 , 023021 (2024) – published 4 april 2024, clustering and ordering in cell assemblies with generic asymmetric aligning interactions, thibault bertrand, joseph d'alessandro, ananyo maitra, shreyansh jain, barbara mercier, rené-marc mège, benoit ladoux, and raphaël voituriez, phys. rev. research 6 , 023022 (2024) – published 4 april 2024, metastable patterns in one- and two-component dipolar bose-einstein condensates, yong-chang zhang, thomas pohl, and fabian maucher, phys. rev. research 6 , 023023 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, cooling dynamics of a free ion in a bose-einstein condensate, lorenzo oghittu, juliette simonet, philipp wessels-staarmann, markus drescher, klaus sengstock, ludwig mathey, and antonio negretti, phys. rev. research 6 , 023024 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, impact of feedback time-distribution on laser dynamics, martin skënderas, spencer w. jolly, and martin virte, phys. rev. research 6 , 023025 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, comparing planar quantum computing platforms at the quantum speed limit, daniel basilewitsch, clemens dlaska, and wolfgang lechner, phys. rev. research 6 , 023026 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, optimal antimicrobial response to a changing microbial background at a mucus interface, guilherme volpe bossa, shai bel, andrew mugler, and amir erez, phys. rev. research 6 , 023027 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, optimal run-and-tumble in slit-like confinement, t. pietrangeli, c. ybert, c. cottin-bizonne, and f. detcheverry, phys. rev. research 6 , 023028 (2024) – published 5 april 2024, hybrid optomechanical superconducting qubit system, juuso manninen, robert h. blick, and francesco massel, phys. rev. research 6 , 023029 (2024) – published 5 april 2024.

• Superconductivity

Similarity between a many-body quantum avalanche model and the ultrametric random matrix model

Jan šuntajs, miroslav hopjan, wojciech de roeck, and lev vidmar, phys. rev. research 6 , 023030 (2024) – published 5 april 2024.

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Introducing Physical Review Research

The new open access journal will welcome the full spectrum of research of interest to the physics community.

APS is pleased to announce the newest title in its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals— Physical Review Research (PRResearch). The publication will be fully open access and cover the whole spectrum of research topics of interest to the physics community, including interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas.

Physical Review Research will aim to advance and disseminate scientific research and discovery, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community. In these ways it will directly support the mission at APS, as well as the new APS Strategic Plan .

As APS continues to expand publishing options for our authors, Physical Review Research will become the fourth open access title in our world-leading family of journals in physics and related research areas. All articles published in the new journal will be immediately free to read, and readers anywhere in the world may reuse the content according to the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 International license.   Physical Review Research complements other titles in the portfolio by offering the Physical Review refereeing and publishing experience researchers value and trust, along with a fully open access publishing model for authors who prefer that option or require it to fulfill funder mandates. Acceptance criteria for this new journal will be similar to those of Physical Review A-E , and like those established titles Physical Review Research will publish quality papers that advance a particular field of research.

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We look forward to welcoming your high quality research when the journal opens for submissions later this spring.

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