Physical Review A
Last updated ISSN 0556-2791
Physical Review A is published by American Physical Society in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $2,675.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Physical Review A concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | American Physical Society |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0556-2791, 1050-2947, 1094-1622, 1538-4446, 2469-9926, 2469-9934, 2469-9942 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $2,675 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 101,002 |
| Publishing since | 1883 |
| Journal website | journals.aps.org/pra/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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