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 ›
Quantum field theory
Meet the winners of the Journal of Physics A 2017 Best Paper Prizes: Part 2
In the second of a series of interviews, meet Simone Giombi, Igor Klebanov and Grigory Tarnopolsky, the authors of Conformal QED d , F-theorem and the ε expansion.
Announcing the winners of the 2017 Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize
Since 2009, Journal of Physics A has awarded an annual Best Paper Prize, which serves to celebrate well written papers that make significant contributions to their field.
Publisher’s Pick: new perspectives on mysterious theories
Our work finds surprising connections between certain mysterious four-dimensional QFTs and a better-understood set of three-dimensional QFTs.
Image of the week: a root diagram and Dynkin diagrams
It’s all about squeezing this week!
Vacuum energy gets flexible
Can a liquid’s vacuum energy vary with the state of the system and be thermodynamically anomalous?
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.
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.
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?
Meet our prize-winning authors
We have recently awarded our 2015 JPhysA Best Paper Prizes. Here we find out more from the authors about their work
Lattice models in Florence
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 ›