Open Calls for Papers
EPJ ST Collection: Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity: Exploring new Intersections
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- Published on 06 January 2026
Guest Editors: Maria Mannone, Paulo Vitor Itaboraí, Omar Costa Hamido
Following the intuition of Gabor, Nobel Prize for Physics, not only music can provide visual imagery and metaphors to describe quantum waves, but also quantum mechanics can be used to investigate the reality of sound. While music belongs to the realm of classical physics, the adoption of concepts and computational tools inspired by the quantum realm, such as quantum computing, can add a further dimension to music analysis, perception theories, modeling of the complexity of timbre, even enhancement or re-thinking of the musical instruments. In turn, musical expression could also be used in providing necessary intuition to emerging quantum technologies and their new paradigms. The exploration of different approaches to fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics through the world of musical sounds (superposition, coherences, measurement), jointly with the potentiality of quantum computing, are the themes of the present special issue.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Chiral Dynamics for the Standard Model and Beyond
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- Published on 17 October 2025
Guest Editor: J.J. Sanz-Cillero
The European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ ST) invites submissions for a Special Volume on Chiral Dynamics for the Standard Model and Beyond. This issue aims to bring together original research and review articles that highlight recent progress in understanding chiral dynamics within the Standard Model and its possible extensions.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Methodological Developments in Molecular Sciences for Materials Design and Synthesis
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- Published on 19 September 2025
Guest Editors: Lakshmi Praveen, Suresh Sagadevan, Prasat Kittakoop, Chinna Bathula
Methodological developments in molecular sciences are dynamic that are addressing various challenges in materials design and synthesis. The advances include computational methods like molecular modeling and machine learning, along with state-of-the-art experimental approaches. These developments enable researchers to predict and analyze the material behavior at molecular level for meeting the design and synthetic procedures.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Materials and Devices for Extreme Conditions
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- Published on 26 August 2025
Guest Editors: Ai Du, Minjie Zhou, Jingquan Liu, Jianming Yang
The quest to understand the behaviours and performance of materials and devices under extreme conditions is a boundary-pushing venture that broadens the scope of human knowledge. Spanning the icy vacuum of space to the high-temperature and high-pressure core of a star, the field of materials and devices for extreme conditions emerges as a critical area of study. The focus lies in deciphering how materials and devices respond to extreme conditions, including, but not limited to, intense radiation, extreme cold, ultrahigh temperature, ultrahigh magnetic fields, and ultrahigh pressures, as well as the conditions induced by high-power lasers. This exploration delves into the physical effects and damage resulting from the interaction between different harsh environments and multidimensional, cross-scale material systems.
EPJ ST Special Issue: IMA12 - Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes
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- Published on 10 July 2025
Guest Editors: Santiago Madruga, Carolina Mendoza
We invite contributions to a Special Issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics (EPJ-ST) dedicated to Interfacial Fluid Dynamics and Processes This special issue will highlight recent advances in interfacial fluid dynamics, featuring research related to the 12th Conference of the International Marangoni Association (IMA12), organized in Madrid, Spain, in June 2025.
EPJ ST Special Issue: The Physics, Simulations, Designs, and Applications of Particle Colliders: CEPC, FCC, and Other Future Colliders
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- Published on 26 June 2025
Guest Editors: Yongsheng Huang, Manqi Ruan
Mankind's exploration of the material world has never stopped. In the past 100 years, thanks to scientific and technological advances, high-energy accelerators have been built, and mankind has a powerful tool, the particle collider, to conduct in-depth research on the composition of microscopic particles. Since the birth of the Standard Model, the theory of constructing the universe based on elementary particles such as quarks and gluons has gradually gained recognition, which is inseparable from the massive experimental data obtained by the large particle collider.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Preparation, Characterization, and Application of Photo-Thermo-Electric Functional Materials Based on Spatial Charge Modulation
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- Published on 26 June 2025
Guest Editors: Wenbo Yan, Yue Liu
Electrons and holes, as the primary carriers of charges, play crucial roles in numerous physicochemical processes. Most fundamental effects in optoelectronic, thermoelectric, and photo-thermo-electric functional materials are associated with the generation, transport, modulation, and recombination of electrons and holes. Recently, deep involvement of charges was found in many emerging applications of functional materials, for example, photovoltaic micro/nano manipulation based on surface charge modulation, hybrid microfluidics utilizing triboelectricity, trace molecule detection through plasmonic array, ion sensing via surface plasmon resonance, perovskite quantum dots leveraging electron-hole recombination, and photocatalytic water splitting enabled by spatial charge separation in III-V compounds.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Interaction of Highly Charged Ions and Electrons with Atoms and Molecules
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- Published on 05 June 2025
Guest Editors: Baoren Wei, Amine Cassimi, Xu Shan
The interaction of highly charged ions and electrons with atom/molecule is one of the most important processes in nano- and atto-science, representing a critical frontier and persistent challenge in atomic and molecular physics. Investigations on these processes also hold significant applications for plasma physics, space physics, biomedical applications and materials science. However, due to the complexity arising from multi-electron interactions, the reaction channels are numerous and coupled with each other, significant challenges exist for both experiment and theory, where the many-body correlation problem remains to be solved. In recent years, advancements in ion source technology and momentum spectroscopy, combined with the integration of AI, have opened up unprecedented opportunities in atomic and molecular physics. These innovations are expected to drive significant progress in atomic and molecular dynamics research.
EPJ ST Special Issue: Recurrence-Based Methods Across Disciplines: From Theory to Practice
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- Published on 02 June 2025
Guest Editors: Norbert Marwan, Gertrudis Hortensia González-Gómez, Claudia Lerma, Juan Carlos Echeverria Arjonilla, Charles L. Webber, Jr.
This special issue will showcase recent advancements and interdisciplinary applications of recurrence plots (RPs) and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) as tools for comprehending the dynamics of complex systems. RPs and RQA are increasingly recognized across various fields due to their ability to uncover hidden structures, transitions, and coupling phenomena in time series and spatial data, especially in the presence of noise, nonstationarity, and limited data length.
EPJ ST Special Issue: From Microscopic/Mesoscopic Particle Aggregates (Formations) to Macroscopic Structures
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- Published on 20 May 2025
Guest Editors: Liubov Toropova, Irina Nizovtseva
Transport processes around phase interfaces, together with thermodynamic properties and kinetic phenomena, control the formation of dendritic patterns. Using the thermodynamic and kinetic data of phase interfaces obtained on an atomic scale, one can analyse the formation of a single dendrite and the growth of a dendritic ensemble. This is the result of recent progress in theoretical methods and computational algorithms calculated using powerful computer clusters.
Topical Collections
Open calls for papers
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EPJ AM Call for papers: Themed Issue on Global Advances in Electromagnetic Metasurfaces for Space
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Call for papers : Special Issue on Imaging, Diffraction, and Spectroscopy on the micro/nanoscale
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EPJ C Topical Collection on String theory predictions for astroparticle and collider physics, and beyond
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