‘As with most people my path was determined by a series of choices involving random factors…’ An insight into Pavel Exner’s career; highlights, current work and advice for future researchers.
Mathematical physics
Uniform distribution of synaptic resources along an axon
New research from Paul Bressloff at the University of Utah looking at the aggregation–fragmentation model of vesicular transport in neurons.
Teiko Heinosaari: An invitation to quantum incompatibility
Topical Review offering a concise overview of some of the central aspects of incompatibility.
Interview with Dr Michael Hall on his career and quantum mechanics
‘I have always been keen to understand how the world works at a fundamental level, and consequently have been banging my head for many years against the wall of quantum mechanics, trying to understand what it all means.’
Self-avoiding walks, PT-symmetry and quantum trajectories: our latest Letters
JPhysA Letters are outstanding short papers reporting new and timely developments in mathematical and theoretical physics. They are concise, innovative and high quality. Here are some of our recent highlights.
Journal of Physics A: out and about
Conferences are a fantastic opportunity for our editors to engage with the community and hear about leading research first hand.
JPhys+ in 2015: what you’ve been reading
Find out which 5 posts are most read on the blog this year.
Amanda Barnard: using big data at the nanoscale
In our latest featured author interview Amanda Barnard, an OCE Science Leader and head of the CSIRO Virtual Nanoscience Laboratory, talks to us about her multidiscliplinary research and why using data-driven methods is the future of the field.
Christmas image of the week: baubles
We’ve picked out some of our best bauble-esque images for this weeks festive post. Happy holidays!
Interview with Tony Guttmann ahead of the special issue honouring his 70th birthday
Combinatorics of lattice models: a special issue in honour of Tony Guttmann’s 70th birthday, recognizing the range of contributions made by Guttmann and his collaborators to the field.
Our first Letter: energy surfaces of the driven Rabi model from Murray Batchelor
First issue of the new volume and we have our first Letter published! Murray Batchelor, topical reviews editor for the journal, delivered his Letter on: Energy landscape and conical intersection points of the driven Rabi model.
Special issue on mathematics for the fluid Earth: first papers are in
Reflecting the interplay between theoretical, mathematical, numerical and computational techniques necessary to unravel the structure of Planet Earth.
Our new Biological Modelling section: interview with board members Ralf Metzler and Joachim Krug
A dedicated publishing venue to those researchers working in the interdisciplinary field connecting biology and biochemistry with the underlying physical and mathematical models.
Throwback: this time last year with JPhysA
It’s week 45 of 2015. Here’s a look back at some highlights from this time in 2014 including a timely fast-track communication from our board member Paul Fendley and a paper from Satya Majumdar, also on our editorial board written with our Editor-in-Chief, Martin Evans.
Image of the week: critical points of Potts and O(N) models
Reformulating the graph polynomial method as an eigenvalue problem within the periodic Temperley–Lieb (TL) algebra to access critical points of the Potts model.
Latest highlights from JPhysA: mathematical and theoretical
IOP Select: Articles chosen by the editors, for their novelty, significance and potential impact on future research. Free-to-view for 1 year.
Introducing Letters from the Journal of Physics
Just one of the things we’re doing to make sure great science can get to the right people.
