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• Publisher’s Pick: An extremal N=2 superconformal field theory

  By Phil Brown on November 14, 2017

  

  Researchers at Stanford and Boston University construct two dimensional CFTs with the right properties to be holographic duals of three-dimensional supergravity. They spoke to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical about their Publisher’s Pick Who are you?    … Read More ›

• Image of the Week: Flexible, polarization-controllable diffusion metasurface with optical transparency

  By Georgia Longstaff on November 13, 2017

  

  This week’s Image of the Week comes from JPhysD article “Flexible and polarization-controllable diffusion metasurface with optical transparency“, Yaqiang Zhuang et al 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 465102. Metasurfaces- planar metamaterials of sub-wavelength thickness- are structures with the ability to manipulate electromagnetic waves… Read More ›

• John Cardy’s scale-invariant journey in low dimensions: a special issue for his 70th birthday

  By Phil Brown on November 3, 2017

  

  Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical celebrates the 70th birthday of Professor John Cardy with a special issue collection spearheaded by guest editors Pasquale Calabrese, Paul Fendley and Uwe C Täuber.  The issue is nearing final completion and JPhys+ would like to… Read More ›

• Advanced capabilities for materials modelling with Quantum ESPRESSO

  By Tom Sharp on October 30, 2017

  

  Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of open-source computer codes for quantum simulations of materials using state-of-the-art electronic-structure techniques, based on density-functional theory, density-functional perturbation theory, and many-body perturbation theory, within the plane-wave pseudopotential and projector-augmented-wave approaches. A recent JPCM paper… Read More ›

• Image of the Week: Joint statistics of strongly correlated neurons via dimensionality reduction

  By Phil Brown on October 23, 2017

  

  This week’s image is taken from a study of Joint statistics of strongly correlated neurons via dimensionality reduction as part of the Modelling and inference in the dynamics of complex interaction networks special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical… Read More ›

• Quantifying plasma chemistry products at atmospheric pressure

  By Georgia Longstaff on October 20, 2017

  

  An atmospheric plasma produces many species. But which ones, and what role do they play? We take a closer look.

• Image of the Week: Direct writing using 3D printed, melt electrospun fibres

  By Georgia Longstaff on October 16, 2017

  

    This week’s Image of the Week comes from JPhysD article ‘Investigation of the effects of melt electrospinning parameters on the direct-writing fiber size using orthogonal design’, Feng-Li He et al 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 425601. Melt electrospinning is an effective and simple… Read More ›

• “Biophysics is a key player in guiding the transition to quantitative and predictive biology” – an Interview with Emerging Leader Ruggero Cortini

  By Tom Sharp on October 12, 2017

  

  The JPhys series turned 50 this year, so we invited a selection of the best young researchers to contribute to our emerging leaders program. Read our interview with Ruggero Cortini here.

• Publisher’s Pick: Proving duality for the two-component asymmetric simple exclusion process.

  By Phil Brown on October 10, 2017

  

  In this paper Jeffrey Kuan uses symmetry of quantum groups to prove duality for the two-component asymmetric simple exclusion process.  He spoke to Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical as about his Publisher’s Pick Who are you? Jeffrey Kuan,… Read More ›

• Image of the week: Coalescence of Pickering emulsions.

  By Georgia Longstaff on September 18, 2017

  

  This week’s Image of the Week is taken from JPhysD article Microfluidic angle of repose test for Pickering emulsions, L A Chacon and J C Baret 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 39LT04. In this paper the authors propose a microfluidic version of the… Read More ›

• Introducing Journal of Physics Communications

  By Mark Purvis on September 18, 2017

  

  The norms in scientific publishing are evolving and publishers are taking note. IOP’s new journal embraces open access and objective peer review assessment to address the needs of today’s researchers.

• Cats in Physics

  By Phil Brown on September 15, 2017

  

  This week the Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded; for achievements that first make you laugh, then make you think.  The Ig Nobel prize for physics was awarded to a study On the Rheology of Cats, but these feline house guests… Read More ›

• Peer Review Week 2017: what do our referees think?

  By Tom Sharp on September 15, 2017

  

  We’re asking our referees about why they do it, and how they would improve peer review.

• A year’s snapshot of Peer Review

  By Tom Sharp on September 14, 2017

  

  IOPP and the scientific publishing community in general rely hugely on the peer review community and peer review is critical to the scientific process. These are the people who ensure quality and academic integrity is maintained across our journal portfolio… Read More ›

• Peer Review Week 2017 – Shining a light on our appeals procedure

  By Tom Sharp on September 14, 2017

  

  Peer Review Week 2017 has the central theme of transparancy. Find out more about our appeals procedure here.

• Peer Review for Conference Proceedings versus Journals: is there a difference?

  By Tom Sharp on September 13, 2017

  

  Is there really any difference between peer reviewing papers for a conference or for a journal? It depends on whom you are talking to. The Editors of a journal will tell you to put the utmost care and effort into… Read More ›

• Video: The Journey of a Paper

  By Tom Sharp on September 12, 2017

  

  Take a look at our animated tour of the peer review process at IOP Publishing.

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