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The new open access journal will welcome the full spectrum of research of interest to the physics community.

APS is pleased to announce the newest title in its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals— Physical Review Research (PRResearch). The publication will be fully open access and cover the whole spectrum of research topics of interest to the physics community, including interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas.

Physical Review Research will aim to advance and disseminate scientific research and discovery, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community. In these ways it will directly support the mission at APS, as well as the new APS Strategic Plan .

As APS continues to expand publishing options for our authors, Physical Review Research will become the fourth open access title in our world-leading family of journals in physics and related research areas. All articles published in the new journal will be immediately free to read, and readers anywhere in the world may reuse the content according to the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 International license.   Physical Review Research complements other titles in the portfolio by offering the Physical Review refereeing and publishing experience researchers value and trust, along with a fully open access publishing model for authors who prefer that option or require it to fulfill funder mandates. Acceptance criteria for this new journal will be similar to those of Physical Review A-E , and like those established titles Physical Review Research will publish quality papers that advance a particular field of research.

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APS has announced the newest title in its portfolio of peer-reviewed journals— Physical Review Research (PRResearch). The publication will be fully open-access (OA) and cover the entire range of physics, including interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas. The journal will open for submissions this spring with the aim to publish its first papers in the second half of this year.

"As we continue to expand publishing options for our authors and readers, Physical Review Research is the latest addition to our world-leading family of journals in physics and related research areas,” says APS Publisher Matthew Salter. “This new journal will aim to advance and disseminate scientific research and discovery, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community. In these ways it will directly support our mission at APS.”

PRResearch will become the fourth fully OA journal within the APS suite of peer-reviewed journals, which also includes nine prestigious hybrid titles. All articles published in the new journal will be immediately free to read, and readers anywhere in the world may reuse the content according to the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 International license.

“PRResearch will be positioned alongside Physical Review A-E , with similar selection criteria to these established topical titles” explains Michael Thoennessen, Editor in Chief for the APS journals. “It will offer a fully OA option for all authors who prefer or require that model and seek the Physical Review refereeing and publishing experience they value and trust.”

Among the open access titles published by APS, PRResearch will complement Physical Review X (PRX), which has a similarly broad scope but is extremely selective as the highest impact, fully OA, multidisciplinary physics journal in the world. According to the author guidelines, manuscripts directly submitted, or transferred from PRX or another journal in the family, to PRResearch should:

• Present important and novel results that advance a particular field of research
• Generate interest for readers with a connection to physics
• Represent an authoritative and substantive addition to the body of literature
• Explore the subject matter comprehensively and thoroughly

“Submissions to PRResearch will be handled by the same professional editorial team of Ph.D. scientists who manage peer review for all of the Physical Review titles,” says Thoennessen. “We are currently recruiting active researchers to serve as editorial board members who will support the development of this new journal.”

In addition to reaching a broad audience of readers across all of physics, papers of particular interest published in PRResearch will receive promotion via the journals website, social media, Physics magazine, and other outlets. These features are intended to maximize recognition of researchers and the impact of the work they publish in the journal.

“The Physical Review journals have served physics well for over 125 years, and this new journal is a step towards ensuring that they continue to do so well into the future,” says Jeff Lewandowski, Associate Publisher at APS. “As science evolves to be more collaborative and global, Physical Review Research aims to meet the needs of the broadest research community, including the next generation of physicists and researchers working in related fields. With this new journal we hope to initiate conversations across traditional boundaries, invite new opportunities for collaboration, and enable future discoveries.”

For more information on Physical Review Research and to sign up for e-alerts, visit the journal website at journals.aps.org/prresearch .

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What niche is PRResearch supposed to fill that the other APS journals don’t already cover?

I read the description of the new journal PRResearch on the APS website, but I am still confused. APS publishes specialized journals, including PRA/B/C/D/E, for each major branch of physics, and journals with a broader scope and large impact, such as PRL and PRX.

My main question is: How is PRResearch standing in comparison with the specialized and lower impact PRA/B/C/D/E and the broader and higher impact PRL and PRX? What niche is it supposed to fill?

On one hand, PRResearch is multidisciplinary as PRL/PRX, and both PRResearch and PRX are full open access with publication charges, whereas the other APS journals are not full open access but only have open access options. On the other hand, as it is written on their website:

The acceptance criteria for PRResearch are aligned with those of other long-established journals in the family, such as Physical Review A, B, C, D, and E.

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• 2 They probably want to get those papers funded by grants that mandate Open Access publication. For my funding agencies, arXiv deposition (which is compatible with APS journals) is enough, but I guess some agencies demand the final version to be Open Access too. –  Miguel Commented Sep 15, 2020 at 18:27
• 1 Hasn't the second half of your question already been discussed here, in your very own question: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/155005/… I suggest you remove that part. –  user151413 Commented Sep 15, 2020 at 20:45
• @Miguel You can have this with PR[A-E] as well. –  user151413 Commented Sep 15, 2020 at 20:45
• @user151413 PR[A-E] are not compatible with Plan S coalition-s.org/… –  Anonymous Physicist Commented Sep 15, 2020 at 23:36
• 1 @sintetico: It is defined in this FAQ . And yes, this is primarily authored by me, but its purpose is to reflect the current community consensus as a status quo on which to base discussions as well as provide a FAQ. If you disagree with that, you have to suggest something else on Academia Meta and it has to get accepted by the community as reflected by votes. –  Wrzlprmft ♦ Commented Sep 16, 2020 at 7:20

APS clearly intends for Physical Review Research to be less selective than PRL/PRX, as they elucidated in two volume 1 editorials:

M. Thoennessen: "Editorial: Introducing Physical Review Research "

We are launching Physical Review Research to achieve three main objectives: (1) to cover the entire range of topics in physics and related fields, including interdisciplinary and newly emerging areas of research, (2) to offer an attractive option for all authors who prefer or are required to publish in fully open access journals, and (3) to align its quality standards and selection criteria with those of the other long-established topical journals in the family, such as Physical Review A–E, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review Fluids, and Physical Review Materials.

R. D'Souza, J.-W. Pan, N. Spaldin, and J. J. Liétor-Santos: "Editorial: Our vision for Physical Review Research " in volume 1:

Within the Physical Review family, Physical Review X provides an open access journal showcasing the most selective papers in pure, applied and interdisciplinary physics. Now, Physical Review Research will complement this title by providing a fully open access title with rigorous peer-review standards and with the same acceptance criteria as Physical Review A through E, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review Fluids, and Physical Review Materials. Our goal is to establish a publication that offers the same experience and quality that we value and trust, while increasing authors’ choice within the Physical Review portfolio. As such, we welcome authors of quality manuscripts not accepted by Physical Review X or Physical Review Letters to seamlessly transfer their work to be considered for publication in Physical Review Research.

Hence I would expect its initial impact factor (expected to arrive in June 2021) to be more aligned with the specialized journals, than with the flagships. But as you've already heard it is hard to tell exactly where it will end up.

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Entanglement-enhanced estimation of a parameter embedded in multiple phases

Michael r. grace, christos n. gagatsos, and saikat guha, phys. rev. research 3 , 033114 – published 5 august 2021.

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Quantum-enhanced sensing promises to improve the performance of sensing tasks using nonclassical probes and measurements that require far fewer scene-modulated photons than the best classical schemes, thereby granting previously inaccessible information about a wide range of physical systems. We propose a generalized distributed sensing framework that uses an entangled quantum probe to estimate a scene-parameter encoded within an array of phases, with a functional dependence on that parameter determined by the physics of the actual system. The receiver uses a laser light source enhanced by quantum-entangled multipartite squeezed-vacuum light to probe the phases and thereby estimate the desired scene-parameter. The entanglement suppresses the collective quantum vacuum noise across the phase array. We report simple analytical expressions for the Cramér-Rao bound that depend only on the optical probes and the physical model of the measured system, and we show that our structured receiver asymptotically saturates the quantum Cramér-Rao bound in the lossless case. Our approach enables Heisenberg limited precision in estimating a scene-parameter with respect to total probe energy, as well as with respect to the number of modulated phases. Furthermore, we study the impact of uniform loss in our system and examine the behavior of both the quantum and the classical Cramér-Rao bounds. We apply our framework to examples as diverse as radio-frequency phased-array directional radar, beam-displacement tracking for atomic-force microscopy, and fiber-based temperature gradiometry.

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Sensing of a single parameter of interest x embedded in phase functions θ m ( x ) modulating M MZIs. Each two-mode MZI is probed with a coherent state and one mode of an M -mode-entangled squeezed vacuum state. F , the Fourier gate, is an M -mode linear-optical interferometer, and the detector at the output of the circuit is a homodyne detector. L denotes the pure loss channel which is modeled as a beam splitter with transmissivity τ whose lower input mode is set to vacuum. A local oscillator mode for homodyne detection is implied but not shown for simplicity.

Application of our entanglement-enhanced sensor framework to a 1D phased array of RF-photonic sensors. The angle of incidence ϕ of the RF field (yellow lines) is estimated using M RF-amplitude dependent optical phase modulators at lateral positions m b , which each modulate one arm of an optical MZI. Additional unitary transformations before and after the MZIs are not shown here (Fig.  1 ).

QFI and CFI for our entanglement-enhanced RF-photonic sensor as a function of the number of phases M that encode the unknown parameter. For fair comparison, we set the input energy to be proportional to M , i.e., N = M sinh 2 1 , resulting in a maximum of 7.69 dB of single-mode squeezing when M = 64 and α = 0 . For the results shown for H ϕ 0 (blue circles) and I ϕ 0 ( 3 ) (yellow diamonds), we optimize over input energy allocations for squeezing and displacement such that each point corresponds to a different numerically determined squeezing parameter. In the remaining two cases all energy is designated to the coherent state, such that r = 0 . For all plots we set A = 0.1 ,   Ω = 30  kHz, b = 10  m, and ϕ 0 = 0 in Eq. ( 35 ). Insets: optimal fraction of total probe energy allocated to squeezed vacuum to maximize H ϕ 0 (blue circles) and I ϕ 0 ( 3 ) (yellow diamonds).

Fisher information as a function of energy allocation between coherent state and SV for the RF-photonic sensor application. Solid lines: QFI. Dashed lines: CFI. Colors (from high to low): Blue: τ = 1 ; Green: τ = 0.9 ; Magenta: τ = 0.6 ; Red: τ = 0.3 .

A schematic of the optimal structured receiver design that attains the QFI for estimating the single scalar parameter x for the problem studied in this paper, as sketched in Fig.  1 . U L and U R are multimode passive linear-optical transformations, and S 1 , ... , S 2 M are single-mode squeezers. The homodyne detection receiver strategy depicted in Fig.  1 is strictly suboptimal in the presence of losses.

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