Physical Review Letters has changed their sections around. Previously, quantum information was in the last section “Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.” For the more fundamental oriented papers, one would sometimes also submit to “General Physics.” Now quantum information has been moved to the new first section “General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.”
\nIs this a good thing? Since I am nothing if but a bag of poorly thought out opinions I will spew out some here. (1) It is nice to see that quantum information is consider a part of “General Physics.” “Interdisciplinary physics” seems a way to say, well there were these good physicists, and then they took interest in this other field which has overlap outside of physics, and since we liked these physicists we let them publish here. If I look at this move as acknowledging that quantum information has intrinsic value to physics, then I get goosebumps all over (sadly doubling the amount of stimulation I’ve had all day.) (2) The old “General Physics” section was notoriously harder to get papers accepted into if they had a quantum information tilt. Generally (err) this was because the papers submitted there were of a more foundational nature, and well, let’s not even go there. Will the movement of quantum information to general physics make it easier for foundational people to get published? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Physical Review Letters has changed their sections around. Previously, quantum information was in the last section “Interdisciplinary Physics: Biological Physics, Quantum Information, etc.” For the more fundamental oriented papers, one would sometimes also submit to “General Physics.” Now quantum information has been moved to the new first section “General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum … <\/p>\n