Philosophical Magazine Letters is the ‘daughter’ journal of the well-known and highly-respected Philosophical Magazine , which was first published in 1798.

The article types and subject areas covered by the journal have been expanded. The Editors welcome research articles as well as review articles within the broad scope of physics including important preliminary research findings for rapid communication, theoretical, experimental, applied and computational research.

Subject areas covered include the following:

    Structure and properties of condensed matter, soft matter, polymers, fluids and plasmas
    Materials science and solid-state physics
    Optics and photonics
    Atomic structure, defects and mechanical properties
    Electron microscopy, STEM, XRD, synchrotron radiation, etc.
    Quantum physics, quantum mechanics and quantum information
    Applied physics
    Nanoscale physics and technology
    Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and nonlinear systems
    Molecular, atomic and nuclear physics
    Biological, medical and chemical physics
    Computational, mathematical and statistical physics
    Instruments, instrumentation and technology
    Digital twins of materials and processes
    Structure-property relationships
    Multiscale computational modelling
    Theoretical / computational materials design
    Machine learning / evolutionary computation
    Density Functional Theory
    Molecular dynamics
    Fluid mechanics
    Geophysics
    History of physics

Readership: physicists, material scientists, and physical chemists within universities, research institutes and industry worldwide.

Peer Review Policy

All research articles published in Philosophical Magazine Letters benefit from having undergone initial editorial screening and rigorous anonymous single anonymized peer review. Submission of articles is online via Taylor & Francis’s Submission Portal and subsequent peer review is via ScholarOne Manuscripts.

Manuscripts are considered on the strict condition that they have not been published already, and that they are not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

By submitting a manuscript to Philosophical Magazine Letters authors are agreeing that CrossCheck software may be used to screen their work for unoriginal material.

Coordinating Editor, Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters: 
E. A. Davis - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 

Editors:
K. M. Knowles  - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, UK     
P. S. Riseborough  - Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA 

Associate Editors
 
Part A (Materials Science) 
Section Editor: K.M. Knowles
 
D. Banerjee - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 
L. Battezzati - University of Turin, Italy 
C. Boothroyd - School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
S. Forest - Centre des Matériaux, Ecoles des Mines de Paris-ParisTech, Evry Cedex, France 
N.M. Jennett  - Centre for Manufacturing & Materials Engineering, Coventry University, Coventry, UK 
L. Pizzagalli - Institut Pprime, Université de Poitiers, Chasseneuil, France 
F. Roters - Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany 
A. Serra - Department de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 
G. Valdrè - Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e Geologico-Ambientali, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 
M.J. Caturla - Department of Applied Physics, Universitat d'Alicant, Alicante, Spain  
Part B (Condensed Matter Physics) 
Section Editor: P.S. Riseborough

Y. Chen - Fudan University, China 
A. Rosengren -  Royal Institute of Technology, Alba Nova University Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm, Sweden 
H.-H.Wen - Center for Superconducting Physics and Materials National Lab for Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, China 
J. Yu -  Seoul National University, South Korea 

Advisory Board:     
E.P. Busso - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK 
P.C. Canfield  -  Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics, Iowa State University, IA, USA 
P. Entel - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 
L. Manosa - University of Barcelona, Spain 
S. R. Shenoy - Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Trivandrum, India 
X. Ren - National Institute for Materials Science, Japan 
V. Vitek - University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA 
P. Weinberger - Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria 
A.L. Greer (Chair) - Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Pembroke Street, UK