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Steve Brett was a Publishing Editor on Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical from 2011 to 2015. Before that, he studied physics at Bristol University.

• Lattice models in Florence

  By Steve Brett on May 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  At the top of a hill south east of Florence, at the end of a long boulevard climbing up through pine, cypress and oak trees, is the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics. Cats doze by the steps leading up… Read More ›

• Mathematics for the fluid Earth

  By Steve Brett on May 14, 2015

  

  JPhysA are now accepting submissions for a new special issue on mathematics for the fluid Earth. The Earth is a rich system in which to study fluid mechanics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, nonlinearities and random processes, so we expect to get a very diverse spread of papers within the scope of the journal.

• Fast Track Communications in JPhysA

  By Steve Brett on April 10, 2015

  

  The desire to publish short, high quality papers continues to increase, and so we’ve revised our procedures for our Fast Track Communications. We know how important it is to get the right referees for your paper, and for review times to be as short and painless as possible.

• Image of the week: hidden attractors

  By Steve Brett on March 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  These dragonfly-like patterns are chaotic and quasi-periodic states in a radio-physical oscillator system. In their recent JPhysA paper, Kuznetsov and colleagues have investigated where these dynamics appear in a system that doesn’t have an equilibrium point, where one wouldn’t naturally expect to find this type of behaviour.

• Dorje Brody: quantum mechanics meets mathematical finance

  By Steve Brett on March 13, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  We interview Dorje Brody, newly appointed to the JPhysA Editorial Board, about his work on the boundaries of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and mathematical finance.

• Publisher’s Pick: Rafael Nepomechie

  By Steve Brett on March 5, 2015

  

  In this Publisher’s Pick article, Rafael Nepomechie explains how preparing a student exercise led to new insights in how to select physical solutions to a particular spin chain, and consequently a paper in JPhysA.

• Funniest preprint title this week

  By Steve Brett on March 4, 2015

  Christopher Ferrie and Richard Kueng get a chuckle for naming their preprint Have you been using the wrong estimator? These guys bound average fidelity using this one weird trick von Neumann didn’t want you to know. Sadly, the paper doesn’t contain 31 gifs of quantum states that prove you were a 90s kid.