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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.
Iddo Eliazar interview: random path to stochastic modelling of complex systems
“Oh, the answer to this question is very simple, yet totally uninformative: The most significant problems are those that we are yet to discover!”
Image of the week: Alice and Bob – dead or alive?
In this week’s Image of the Week, Alice and Bob take part in a quantum duel.
Simulations of quantum electrodynamics – our latest publisher’s pick
In our latest Publisher’s Pick article, we interview Francesco Pepe, a member of the QUANTUM collaboration of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), involving Simone Notarnicola (SISSA) and Professors Elisa Ercolessi (Bologna), Giuseppe Marmo (Naples), Paolo Facchi and… Read More ›
Lorenza Viola interview: journey into quantum information theory
Lorenza Viola is one of the newest members of the JPhysA editorial board. In this insightful and engaging interview she tells us about her career path and ‘adventures’. Read about her work in quantum information processing and quantum statistical mechanics, career highlights and where her research could take her next.
Conference: JPhysA at Quantum Information Processing & Communication 2015
QIPC has been held at many top destinations around Europe and this year makes it’s way to England’s great city, Leeds. Quantum Computing, Quantum Simulation, Quantum Communication, Quantum Metrology, Quantum Algorithms… Hope to see you there!
Image of the week: entanglement structures in qubit systems
Attempting to understand the detailed structure of entanglement and potential insights it can offer in the context of holography
Celebrating Australia’s National Science Week
Highlighting some of the leading research from top scientists and researchers working at Australian institutions.
Guest blog: Murray Batchelor revisits Rodney Baxter’s publications
With the special issue celebrating Rodney Baxter’s 75th birthday currently underway we list here the publications of Baxter in JPhysA over the past four decades illustrating the remarkable depth and significance of Baxter’s work.
Challenging ‘one of the last open problems of classical physics’
How can the instanton method be used to determine structures in turbulent fluid flows at high Reynolds numbers?
Image of the week: turbulent transition
A symmetry-breaking transition from a turbulent to a self-organized state
First articles for R J Baxter’s 75th birthday issue are in!
Exactly Solved Models and Beyond: a special issue in honour of R J Baxter’s 75th birthday. A collection of articles reflecting the on-going influence of Baxter’s work.
An insight into Insights
A look back over the research highlights of 2015 so far. JPhysA insights offer an opportunity for researchers to get a flavour of work published across the journal that may be outside their areas of expertise.
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