''Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics'' (also known as PRB) is a

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, published by the

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(APS). The Editor of PRB is Laurens W. Molenkamp. It is part of the ''

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'' family of journals.
About the Physical Review Journals The current Editor in Chief is

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. PRB currently publishes over 4500 papers a year, making it one of the largest physics journals in the world.
PRB ranked by the Eigenfactor, University of Washington, 2012

Scope

The focus of this journal is on new results in

condensed matter physics Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the sub ...

, which includes a wide variety of subject areas, such as semiconductors, superconductivity, magnetism, structure, phase transitions, ferroelectrics, nonordered systems, liquids,

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s, superfluidity, electronic structure, photonic crystals, mesoscopic systems, surfaces, clusters, fullerenes,

graphene Graphene () is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice nanostructure.

, nanoscience, etc.

History

PRB was created in 1970 when the original ''Physical Review'' (founded in 1893) was subdivided into ''Physical Review A'', ''B'', ''C'', and ''D'', based on subject matter. Peter D. Adams was the Editor from inception until 2012 when Laurens W. Molenkamp took over.

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is currently the

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Features

PRB has a reputation among professional physicists for publishing useful, comprehensive long papers in physics. It also contains short (four page) papers in its Rapid Communications section, designed for research important enough to deserve special handling and speedy publication. The journal can be searched for free via PROLA.
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive) Titles and abstracts can be freely viewed 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,
Physical Review B Staff and does not employ the more common model of using part-time editors who are active researchers. The journal is available in print format (at University libraries) but the archival version is the online one. Authors can pay extra charges to make their papers

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.
APS Open Access announcement, American Physical Society, 15 February 2011 Such papers are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (CC-BY), 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 (highlighted) as a
Editors' Suggestions
Artistic images from papers in the journal are published as a feature name
Kaleidoscope

Abstracting and Indexing

''Physical Review B'' is indexed in the following bibliographic databases: *

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* Computer & Control Abstracts * Current Physics Index * Electrical & Electronics Index *

Energy Research Abstracts The ''Energy Citations Database (ECD)'' was created in 2001 in order to make scientific literature citations, and electronic documents, publicly accessible from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and its predecessor agencies, at no cost to the u ...

* INSPEC *

Mathematical Reviews ''Mathematical Reviews'' is a journal published by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in mathematics, statistics, and theoretical computer science. The AMS also pu ...

Metals Abstracts CSA (formerly ''Cambridge Scientific Abstracts'') was a division of Cambridge Information Group and provider of online databases, based in Bethesda, Maryland before merging with ProQuest of Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2007. CSA hosted databases of ...

* Physics Abstracts * PubSCIENCE * SPIN

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