EPJA: Topical issue on "Relativistic Hydro- and Thermodynamics"
One of the most striking and still unsolved puzzles in the physics of high energy elementary and complex reactions, like e+e-, pp, ppbar and heavy ion collisions at several GeV to several TeV energies, is represented by the unexpected and microscopically not reasoned success of the statistical equilibrium description. This description consists of two main aspects: the relativistic thermodynamic and hydrodynamic approach, including kinematic models based on particle concept. A comprehensive review of the multiple achievements and numerous assumptions embodied in the successful hydrodynamic approaches to high energy collisions in recent decades should serve as a basis for finding an explanation to the above puzzle. Detailed presentations of recent applications of contemporary developments towards a generalized equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical physics description will be given as support. The planned issue may offer a wealthy source of information for future research aiming at microscopical or quantum physical understanding of the emergence of apparently thermal radiation and particle spectra in a number of high energy experiments.
The European Physics Journal A (Hadrons and Nuclei) therefore solicits submission of papers for a Topical Issue on Relativistic Hydro- and Thermodynamics in Nuclear Physics. Authors willing to contribute to this issue are expected to send an indication of their intention of submitting either a review or an original research article by e-mail to one of the Topical Issue guest editors
1) Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi, Wigner Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary,
Barnafoldi.Gergely@wigner.mta.hu
2) Péter Ván, Wigner Reseacrh Centre, Budapest, Hungary, Van.Peter@wigner.mta.hu
or to the EPJA Co-Editor
3) Tamás Sándor Biró, Wigner Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary, Biro.Tamas@wigner.mta.hu
Authors are invited to submit their paper electronically through the website https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/epja specifying in the cover letter that their paper belongs to the Special Issue on "Relativistic Hydro- and Thermodynamics in Nuclear Physics".
The style files for EPJA can be found at http://www.epj.org/makro.html . The instructions for authors can be found at http://www.epj.org/_pdf/instructions_epja.pdf. Further questions can be addressed to one of the Editors listed above.
The deadline for the first submission/upload of these manuscripts is March 31, 2012. We expect to publish the issue in June 2012.
EPJE: Topical issue on "Active Matter"
The European Physical Journal E, the journal dedicated to the physics of soft and biological matter, will publish a themed issue on "Active Matter". The issue will gather contributions to this exciting field at the intersection of nonequilibrium physics and biology. The unique strength of EPJE lies in its commitment to the physics of soft matter and biological systems, and we wish to take this opportunity to move this young field forward.
The living cell and many of its components, life-forms large and small, and artificially energized mimics of motility are all examples of active matter. An understanding of the individual and collective behavior of active particles is one of the grand challenges of nonequilibrium statistical physics, and holds the key to a physical grasp of the mechanics and statistics of living matter. It is now widely appreciated that mechanics, through the exertion, detection, modulation and transduction of forces by cells and cell aggregates is every bit as important as genetics in the normal as well as pathological development of tissue. Fluctuations, flow, instabilities, and ordering phase transitions are seen over an enormous range of length scales in the living world. The success of agent-based flocking models, theories of the swimming of individual microorganisms, fundamental experimental and theoretical advances in catalytic self-propulsion, and hydrodynamic theories of self-driven fluids testify to the extraordinary ferment created by the rise of active-matter physics.
With this topical issue we aim to give an opportunity to this scientific community to take stock, consolidate, and identify new challenges, new unifying principles, and the most promising directions for progress.
Topical Issue Editors:Deadline for submission: 23rd March 2012.
Submission: Papers should be submitted to the Editorial Office of the European Physical Journal E via https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epje/ (Editorial Office of The European Physical Journal E, Solange Guéhot, e-mail: epje@edpsciences.org) and marked clearly for the topical issue on Active Matter.
EPJD: Special issue on "Atomic Cluster Collisions"
Recent years have witnessed the rapid and extensive development of a variety of experimental tools and of the corresponding theoretical models for the analysis of the structure, properties and dynamics of nuclear, atomic, molecular, biological and complex cluster systems. Frequently, these systems are studied by means of photonic, electronic, heavy particle and atomic collisions. More recent tools include the employment of Free Electron Lasers for the study of atomic clusters. The attention has been devoted to dynamical phenomena, many-body effects taking place in clusters, nanostructures, molecular and biological systems, which include problems of fusion and fission, fragmentation, collective electron excitations, phase transitions and many others. Recently, nonlinear phenomena in the photoionization of clusters were explored by new excitation possibilities in the VUV and X-ray regime for the first time. Both experimental and theoretical aspects of cluster physics uniquely placed between nuclear physics on one hand and atomic, molecular and solid state physics were the subject of investigation.
The issue in preparation intends to gather the best, and most recent results which are being produced in this area by the international community and to provide therefore a state-of-the-art description of what is being done in the field of structure-formation and dynamics of nuclear, atomic and molecular clusters, nanoobjects, ensembles of nanoparticles, nanostructures, biomolecules and biomolecular systems. It is envisaged that the contributions to the issue will represent the studies both at the fundamental level of elementary mechanisms and at the more applied level which is necessary in numerous applications of nano- and bio- technology, material science and medicine. Although this issue is not a collection of conference proceedings, we expect that the participants of the recent ISACC 2011 meeting (held in July 20-25, Berlin, Germany) will contribute to the issue by submitting their novel and original results.
The European Physical Journal D therefore launches a call for submission for such papers on the part of the international community, indicating below the names of the Scientific Editors who will be involved in the preparation of the present issue:
1) Andrey V. Solov’yov, FIAS, Frankfurt am Main, GermanyThe contributors are asked to submit their work, which has to be in the usual form of an original contribution to this Journal, directly to the editorial office in Paris, indicating their wish to appear in the present special issue and also which of the above editors in charge they wish to be receiving their contribution.
Deadline for submission: January 31, 2012.
Publication expected: October 2012.
Submission: Web submission is encouraged via:https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjd/
Editors-in-Chief of EPJD: K. H. Becker, C. Fabre and N. J. Mason
EPJ Special Topics: Spatially Embedded Complex Networks
Within the framework of the two workshops “Evolution of Complex Transportation Networks”, at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, and “Complexity and the Future of Transportation Network”, a satellite workshop of the ECCS ‘11 Vienna supported and funded by EUROCONTROL, we are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Spatially Embedded Complex Networks.
While graph theory was initially developed in the eighteenth century to solve geographical problems, its evolution in complex networks science has been mainly applied to scientific fields like sociology, economics, or biology. The recent introduction of new transportation technologies like high-speed trains, new business models like low-fare airlines, pervasive mobile technologies, as well as the availability of large amounts of geo-tagged data, are reclaiming the original importance of geography in networks science. Within the geographically embedded networks’ container, many heterogeneous subcategories of space-embedded, dynamical phenomena may be included, which can’t be really understood without taking into account their connections with the underlying spatial constraints. Spreading of diseases among cities, states and around the entire world, urbanization dynamics, health geography and urban structures, crowding behaviour, traffic management, trade networks, and communication networks are but a few of the phenomena that can be addressed. There are also several theoretical issues that still remain open, and that are directly related to these problems; as such, both research and theoretical papers are welcome.
Topics of interest related to applications and theoretical topics include:
Guest Editors:
Emanuele Strano (Urban Design Studies Unit, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK; from December 2011: Laboratory of Geographic Information Systems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, Email: emanuele.strano@gmail.com)
Massimilano Zanin (Innaxis Foundation & Research Institute, Spain and Centre for Biomedical Technology, Politechnical University of Madrid, Spain, Email: mzanin@innaxis.org)
Fabrizio Lillo (University of Palermo, Italy; Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy; and Santa Fe Institute, USA,
Email: fabrizio.lillo@sns.it)
Ernesto Estrada (Institute of Complex Systems at Strathclyde, Department of Mathematics and Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, Email: ernesto.estrada@strath.ac.uk)
Deadline for submission: February 15, 2012.
Publication expected: Summer 2012.
Submission:
Authors wishing to submit a manuscript should contact the Guest Editors. The style files for EPJ ST can be found at
http://www.epj.org/makro.html. The instruction for authors can be found
here.
EPJ Plus: Focus Point on Optical Methods at the Nanoscale
Feynman's vision of accessing the nanoscale in biological and soft matter, allowing for nano-navigation by shining and collecting light, is today a growing research area. The use of light microscopy to explore life's and matter's secrets is a fundamental tool in the nanosciences. Today the optical microscope and related methods have evolved from the Galileo Galilei's invention called "occhialino" and renamed as "microscope" to super-resolution microscopes. For more than a century, Abbe's diffraction barrier was considered a fundamental and unsurpassing limitation, hampering the application of all optical microscopes when there is the need of accessing the nanoscale level. However, recently several new image formation and data collection optical approaches have been demonstrated that can "crumble" such a limitation. This led to a new and exciting scientific adventure also known as nanoscopy and/or super-resolution optical microscopy.
This focus point aims in particular to assess the present limits and emerging "best practices" of such state-of-the-art optical methods at the nanoscale, but also encourages looking for new adventurous ideas in terms of methodology.
This open call for articles (short reviews, technical notes, regular articles) expresses a particular interest in contributions on:
However, the special issue is not exclusively reserved to these themes but open to all relevant contributions from experts in the field of optical nanoscopy and super resolution microscopy methods.
Deadline for submission: February 29, 2012.
Publication expected: Spring 2012.
Authors are asked to submit their paper electronically through the website http://www.editorialmanager.com/epjp/, specifying in their cover letter that their paper belongs to the focus point on "Optical methods at the nanoscale".
I am looking forward to receiving your submission.
Alberto Diaspro (Guest Editor)
Director / Nanophysics
Department Italian Institute of Technology
alberto.diaspro@iit.it
EPJD Topical issue on High Dimensional Quantum Entanglement
Quantum entanglement has become an invaluable resource for the emerging areas of quantum information and quantum technologies in recent years. However, the standard approach that deals with simple systems of one or two modes is inadequate for tackling problems encountered in the practical implementation. The need for faster processing of ever increasing quantities of data requires consideration of multi-dimensional and multi-modal quantum entanglement. The generation of entanglement and quantum correlations in high dimensional Hilbert spaces opens the way to a breakthrough in the information capacity of QIPC protocols, and provides a fundamental resource for quantum metrology and quantum imaging.
This special issue will focus on both the light and matter aspects of high dimensional entanglement, with an emphasis on those addressed by the European FET Open project HIDEAS (High Dimensional Entangled Systems). Topics of interest include:
Guest Editors:
Sonja Franke-Arnold (Glasgow University, Glasgow, UK)
Alessandra Gatti (IFN-CNR, Como, Italy)
Jörg Helge Müller (NBI, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Nicolas Treps (UPMC, Paris, France)
Deadline for submission: January 31, 2012
Publication expected: Summer 2012
Submission: Authors are invited to use the online submission portal at https://articlestatus.edpsciences.org/is/epjd/ (preferred). If you are a first- time author with EPJ D, you must register first, which can be done directly on the above web site. When submitting your contribution, please select “High Dimensional Quantum Entanglement” under the tab for Special Issues. Contributions can also be sent directly to epjd@edpsciences.org.We are looking forward to receiving your contribution.
To download the pdf of this call for papers please click here