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 ›
Statistical physics
Publisher’s Pick: Proving duality for the two-component asymmetric simple exclusion process.
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 ›
Focus on quantum thermodynamics
The interface between quantum information and thermodynamics is currently a very active area. The topical review The role of quantum information in thermodynamics — a topical review, published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is the most highly cited 2016 article in the journal. Here we talk to one of the authors of the review, Marcus Huber, from Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna, to discover why this field is so active and where he thinks it’s heading.
Dynamical phase transitions: an Emerging Talents Lab Talk with Alexandre Lazarescu
In a newly published Emerging Talents paper in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Alexandre Lazarescu investigates a Generic dynamical phase transition in one-dimensional bulk-driven lattice gases with exclusion. Alexandre spoke to JPhys+ to explain more about dynamical phase… Read More ›
Percolation: Where physics and mathematics meet for coffee
We talk to Ralph Kenna and Bertrand Berche about their paper on Universal finite-size scaling for percolation theory in high dimensions published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. They talk about the importance of percolation in mathematics and… Read More ›
Meet the winners of the Journal of Physics A 2017 Best Paper Prizes
Part 1: Silvio Franz and Giorgio Parisi The simplest model of jamming
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.
Image of the Week: Free and Boundary Loops
Today’s Image of the Week comes from a study of A formula for crossing probabilities of critical systems inside polygons. The manuscript is from our Emerging Talents special issue on Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. Steven Flores, currently… Read More ›
One-dimensional q-state Potts model with multi-site interactions: An interview with Loïc Turban
In his recently published Paper in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Loïc Turban from the Université de Lorraine has provided a study of the 1D classical q-state Potts model. Professor Turban talks to JPhys+ to tell us more about… Read More ›
“Hard work and plain stubbornness often helps a bit in achieving one’s goals”– an interview with Professor Jesper Jacobsen
Jesper Jacobsen is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at École Normale Supérieure and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He works in statistical physics and conformal field theory and was awarded the Société Française de Physique Paul Langevin Prize in… Read More ›
New developments in classical density functional theory
Electronic density functional theory (DFT) will be well known to anyone working in condensed matter physics, especially those trying to predict complex behavior at the atomic scale. However fewer will be familiar with classical DFT.
Meet the winners of the JPhysA Best Paper Prize 2016 Part 3
Part 3: Jesper Lykke Jacobsen ‘High-precision percolation thresholds and Potts-model critical manifolds from graph polynomials’
Teiko Heinosaari: An invitation to quantum incompatibility
Topical Review offering a concise overview of some of the central aspects of incompatibility.
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.
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.