Authors & Readers

Submission
- EPJ A
- EPJ B
- EPJ C
- EPJ D
- EPJ E
- EPJ AP
- EPJ ST
- EPJ H
- EPJ PLUS
- EPJ DS
- EPJ PV
- EPJ TI
- EPJ QT
- EPJ AM
- EPJ N
- EPJ WOC
LaTeX Macros
- EPJ A
- EPJ B
- EPJ C
- EPJ D
- EPJ E
- EPJ AP
- EPJ ST
- EPJ H
- EPJ PLUS
- EPJ DS
- EPJ TI
- EPJ QT
- EPJ WOC
TOC alert
- EPJ A
- EPJ B
- EPJ C
- EPJ D
- EPJ E
- EPJ AP
- EPJ ST
- EPJ H
- EPJ PLUS
- EPJ DS
- EPJ PV
- EPJ TI
- EPJ QT
- EPJ AM
- EPJ N
- EPJ WOC
RSS feeds
Permission Requests
Policy on Publishing Integrity
FAQ
Videos presenting EPJ

Open Calls for Papers

EPJ ST Special Issue: The Physics, Simulations, Designs, and Applications of Particle Colliders: CEPC, FCC, and Other Future Colliders

Details: 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

Details: 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-therm-oelectric 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

Details: 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

Details: 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

Details: 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.

EPJ ST Special Issue: Unraveling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Stochastic and Complex Systems

Details: Published on 16 May 2025

Guest Editors: Fernanda S. Matias, Edson D. Leonel, Marcos G.E. da Luz and Marcus W. Beims

Spatial patterns are ubiquitous in nature, emerging in rather diverse phenomena,like biological motifs (as those described by the Turing model), social organization in communities, sedimentary layers in geology, and Bérnard cells in fluid convection, to cite just a few. However, depending on the drives and interactions leading to these formations, the spatial structures themselves can evolve with time, characterizing thus a spatio-temporal dynamics. This is typical of systems displaying stochasticity and complexity, consequently taking place in critical phenomena, complex networks, turbulence, chaotic systems, sociophysics, econophyiscs, non-equilibrium thermodynamics, open quantum systems, nonlinear optics, ecology, climate problems, etc.

EPJ ST Special Issue: Recent Advances in Plasma Physics & Materials Surface Modification in China

Details: Published on 23 April 2025

Guest Editors: Bin Liao, Jie Wu, Fugang Qi, Kai Wang

In 1928, the American scientist Irving Langmuir first introduced the term "plasma" into physics to describe the state of matter in a gas discharge tube. It is regarded as the fourth state of matter, mainly composed of electrons, ions, free radicals and neutral particles (atoms or molecules), whose movement is controlled by electromagnetic forces.

As one of the application fields of plasma, ion beam surface modification is an interdisciplinary subject developed from the intersection of nuclear physics, materials science, condensed matter physics, microelectronics and other disciplines. Its rise and development have opened up a new path for the synthesis of new materials and the study of micro-nano mechanisms in materials science and condensed matter physics.

EPJ ST Special Issue: A Passion for Science, a Heart for People - A Special Issue in Memoriam of Danuta Makowiec

Details: Published on 16 April 2025

Guest Editors: Henryk Fukś, Jürgen Kurths, Ryszard Kutner, Alberto Porta, Aneta Stefanovska, Zbigniew R. Struzik

We dedicate this Special Issue of the EPJ ST to our colleague Danuta Makowiec, who passed away last year after a long, courageous fight with a brutal illness. A physicist by training, Danuta became a driving force behind complex systems science in Poland and internationally -- specifically in applications of physics methods to complexity of various origins and aiming at numerous applications, where she prioritised medical domains. Her research covered disciplines as diverse as cellular automata, complex networks, econophysics, sociophysics and in particular cardiophysics, just to mention those areas of science where she was most active.

EPJ ST Special Issue: Analysis and Control of Complex Physical Systems

Details: Published on 06 March 2025

Guest Editors: Fatihcan M. Atay, Deniz Eroglu, Jürgen Kurths, Eckehard Schӧll

We invite contributions for a special issue dedicated to the analysis and control of nonlinear systems operating far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This issue aims to showcase innovative research that leverages insights from nonlinear dynamics, classical control theory, and emerging quantum control methods — and beyond.

EPJ ST Special Issue: Functional Neurons and Networks

Details: Published on 04 March 2025

Guest Editors: Jun Ma, Dibakar Ghosh, Ergin Yilmaz

Scientific background and significance:

Generic neuron models provide easy way for exploring the dynamic characteristic in neural activities, distinct mode transition, nonlinear resonance and self-organization can be detected and explained from theoretical aspect. Indeed, physical description about energy characteristic, functional enhancement, self-adaptive property, reliability of equivalent circuit approach, heterogeneity and defects in neural networks, and digital neurons array are open for further investigation. Considering the biophysical functional characteristic of biological neurons, visual neuron, auditory neuron, olfactory neuron, thermosensitive neuron and memristive neurons are effective to effective to discover the driving-response processing. During model proposal and setting, specific terms are often introduced into the generic neuron models for expressing specific functional processing. The specific electronic components including memristor, thermistor, phototube, gas sensor, Josephson junction, piezoelectric ceramic can be incorporated into the simple nonlinear circuits, and then external physical, chemical, mechanical and electromagnetic signals can be perceived and detected.