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Journal of Physics a Mathematical and Theoretical iopscience.org/jphysa Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical Highlights of 2011 Cover image: Artistic impression of nontrivial cycles and stabilizer code generators on a lattice from ‘Constructions and noise threshold of topological subsystem codes’ by M Suchara et al 2011 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 44 155301. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Dear colleagues, 2011 has been another successful year for Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. The journal continues to have a broad audience and readers can enjoy high-quality research across theoretical and mathematical physics. This collection of highlights displays some of the most highly rated articles published in the journal during 2011. All of these articles were chosen primarily for their high-quality science. This selection displays the broad scope of the journal and demonstrates that it is a meeting place for researchers to share mathematically rich work across different disciplines. In 2011 we began to publish Insights: these are online, author-written news items highlighting the key achievements of recent work published in the journal to readers who might not be specialists in the field. All papers in this collection that have an associated Insight article are clearly marked. IMPACT FACTOR Some of our best articles have been published as Fast Track Communications (FTCs). FTCs * are short articles presenting important new developments in mathematical and theoretical 1.564 physics. FTCs benefit from accelerated publication and our recommended reader service, * As listed in ISI®’s 2011 Science Citation Index Journal Citation Reports where we will notify researchers selected by the authors when the article is published. Each year we award up to three articles the Journal of Physics A Best Paper Prize to reward AVERAGE DOWNLOADS work that has excelled in novelty, achievement, potential impact and presentation. Details PER ARTICLE of the 2011 winners can be found in this brochure. Please contact the journal office to make your nominations for future awards. This collection also shows details of the topical reviews and special issues that we have 159 published throughout 2011. Topical reviews are commissioned by our Board Members to provide timely overviews of the current state of research in areas of great interest and ACCEPTANCE TIMES activity, while special issues are collections of articles focused on contemporary areas IN 2011 of research, with contributions from world-class authors, and guest-edited by leading researchers. 86 DAYS* 2012 will be another strong year for the journal, with four special issues planned on * median receipt to acceptance Coherent states: mathematical and physical aspects; Applications of zeta functions and other spectral functions in mathematics and physics: a special issue in honour of Stuart Dowker’s 75th birthday; Quantum physics with non-Hermitian operators; and Lattice models and integrability: a special issue in honour of F Y Wu. We hope that you enjoy this collection. We would like to thank all of our authors for choosing to submit high-quality work to the journal as well as our referees for providing constructive peer review and maintaining the quality standards of the journal. We look forward to working with you during 2012. Murray Batchelor Editor-in-Chief Highlights of 2011 3 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief M T Batchelor Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Statistical Physics Editor Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory Editor M R Evans University of Edinburgh, UK V Scarani National University of Singapore, Singapore Chaotic and Complex Systems Editor Field Theory and String Theory Editor A Pikovsky Universität Potsdam, Germany A Tseytlin Imperial College, London, UK Mathematical Physics Editor Fluid and Plasma Theory Editor A Kuniba University of Tokyo, Japan G Falkovich Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Editorial Board A V Kitaev Steklov Mathematical Institute, St Petersburg, Russia N Beisert ETH, Zurich, Switzerland G Korchemsky Université de Paris-Sud, France E Ben-Naim Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA C Maes Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium M V Berry University of Bristol, UK S Majumdar Université de Paris-Sud, France J-S Caux Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands R Metzler University of Potsdam, Germany M-Y Choi Seoul National University, Korea J A Minahan Uppsala Universitet, Sweden S Coppersmith University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA S Nazarenko University of Warwick, UK B Derrida École Normale Supérieure, France A M Ozorio de Almeida Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Brazil D Dhar Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India J H H Perk Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA P E Dorey University of Durham, UK A Pumir École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France J Eisert University of Potsdam, Germany P Schmelcher Universität Hamburg, Germany E Elizalde CSIC, Barcelona, Spain P Sollich King's College London, UK P Fendley University of Virginia, USA R Tumulka Rutgers University, USA O Gühne Universität Siegen, Germany M Visser Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand U Günther Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany A Vulpiani Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy D D Holm Imperial College London, UK and Los Alamos National Laboratory, Y Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China USA P Wiegmann University of Chicago, USA M Horodecki Gdan´sk University, Poland H-Q Zhou Chongqing University, People’s Republic of China K Kajiwara Kyushu University, Japan Please do not send any manuscripts directly to our Board Members. Articles should be submitted via our website or by e-mail to [email protected]. About IOP Publishing IOP Publishing provides publications through which leading-edge scientific research is distributed worldwide. Since launch we have expanded rapidly to become one of the leading international STM publishers. We have a global reach, with offices in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Mexico City, Munich, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Wroclaw, Beijing and Tokyo, as well as Bristol and London in the UK. IOPscience is IOP Publishing’s electronic platform providing access to more than 130 years of leading scientific research and hosting over 350,000 articles dating from 1874 to the present day. For authors, IOPscience provides a compelling opportunity to publish work that will achieve visibility and status amongst the scientific community. IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, which was established in 1874. The Institute of Physics is a not-for-profit society and any surplus from IOP Publishing goes to support science through the activities of the Institute. Physics is an international endeavour and the Institute aims to promote and support physics in furthering scientific knowledge and providing economic and social benefits both in the UK and Ireland and internationally, especially in the developing world. 4 Highlights of 2011 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Journal scope ISSN 1751-8113 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical is a major journal of theoretical physics reporting research Journal of Physics A on the mathematical structures that describe fundamental processes of the physical world and on the analytical, computational and numerical methods for exploring these structures. Mathematical papers should be clearly motivated by actual or potential application to physical phenomena. Volume 44 Number 50 16 December 2011 Research papers published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical are categorized into one of six subject sections: •statistical physics •chaotic and complex systems •mathematical physics •quantum mechanics and quantum information theory •field theory and string theory iopscience.org/jphysa •fluid and plasma theory To be accepted for publication in the journal, papers must make significant, original and correct contributions to one or more of the topics within these sections. Journal team Our dedicated team at IOP Publishing is here to look after your work, ensuring that the whole process from submission to publication via peer-review and promotion is run in a satisfactory manner. 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