Physical Review B


Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal, published by the American Physical Society. The Editor of PRB is Laurens W. Molenkamp. It is part of the Physical Review family of journals. The current Editor in Chief is Michael Thoennessen. PRB currently publishes over 4500 papers a year, making it one of the largest physics journals in the world.

Scope

The focus of this journal is on new results in condensed matter physics, which includes a wide variety of subject areas, such as semiconductors, superconductivity, magnetism, structure, phase transitions, ferroelectrics, nonordered systems, liquids, quantum solids, superfluidity, electronic structure, photonic crystals, mesoscopic systems, surfaces, clusters, fullerenes, graphene, nanoscience, etc.

History

PRB was created in 1970 by the split of the original Physical Review into four parts, based on subject matter. Peter D. Adams was the Editor from inception until 2012 when Laurens W. Molenkamp took over. Anthony M. Begley is currently the Managing Editor.

Features

PRB has a reputation among professional physicists for publishing useful, comprehensive long papers in physics. It also contains short papers in its Rapid Communications section, designed for research important enough to deserve special handling and speedy publication. The journal can be searched free via PROLA. Titles and abstracts can be viewed free but a journal subscription is needed to read the full text of papers. PRB and the other APS journals are available entirely free at many US public libraries. PRB is rare among physics journals in that it has a staff of 12 full-time professional editors and does not employ the more common model of using part-time editors who are active researchers. The journal is available in print format but the archival version is the online one. Authors can pay extra charges to make their papers open access. Such papers are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, the most permissive of the CC licenses, which permits authors and others to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work, provided that proper credit is given. A small percentage of the PRB papers published are chosen by the PRB editors to be Editors' Suggestions, as seen at http://prb.aps.org. Artistic images from papers in the journal are published as a feature named "Kaleidoscope" at http://prb.aps.org/kaleidoscope.

Abstracting and Indexing

Physical Review B is indexed in the following bibliographic databases: