Physical Review Letters (PRL) is the world’s premier physics letter journal and the American Physical Society’s flagship publication. Since 1958 it has contributed to APS’s mission to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics by publishing seminal research by Nobel Prize–winning and other distinguished researchers in all fields of physics.

PRL covers the full range of applied, fundamental, and interdisciplinary physics research topics, encoded in our list of sections and subsections:

Quantum information, science, and technology
Cosmology, astrophysics, and gravitation
Particles and fields
Nuclear physics
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Physics of fluids, earth & planetary science, and climate
Plasma and solar physics, accelerators and beams
Condensed matter and materials
Statistical physics; classical, nonlinear, and complex systems
Polymers, chemical physics, soft matter, and biological physics