Physics Letters
| Physics Letters
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| description | Physics journal |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Elsevier |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam |
| First edition | 1971 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly (A) / monthly (B) |
| ISSN (print) | 0370-1573 |
Physics Letters is a peer-reviewed physics journal published by Elsevier (Amsterdam) . It was founded in 1962 by North Holland (which went up in Elsevier in 1970) as a European counterpart to the US Physical Review Letters for the rapid publication of research results. The essays are shorter and only a few pages long; more detailed versions often appear later in other journals such as Physical Review .
The magazine has been published in two series since 1967:
- Physics Letters A (weekly): Condensed matter physics, theoretical and mathematical physics as well as numerical physics (computational physics), statistical physics, nonlinear phenomena, atomic physics, molecular physics, plasma physics, hydrodynamics, optics, nanosciences, biological physics, fundamentals of physics and interdisciplinary research areas
- Physics Letters B (monthly): nuclear physics, high energy physics, astrophysics
Similar to Reviews of Modern Physics at Physical Review, there is also a special journal for review articles, the Physics Reports , founded in 1971.
One of the first editors was Leon van Hove . During his time, the 1964 paper by Murray Gell-Mann was published in Physics Letters, in which quarks were introduced.
Web links
- Official website of Physics Letters B at Elsevier