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GitHub用于判断应用物理手稿是否适合投稿至 Physical Review Applied (PRApplied)，提供期刊定位、选题范围、方法证据标准及拒稿启发式规则，辅助作者进行venue选择与内容重构。
Trigger Scenarios
作者将 PRApplied 列为应用物理手稿的目标期刊
手稿展示基于严谨物理的量子、光子或能源等技术能力
作者在 PRApplied、PRX 等专业期刊间犹豫
提交前需核对应用相关性、证据预期及拒稿标准
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill physical-review-applied -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "physical-review-applied",
"description": "Use when targeting Physical Review Applied (PRApplied) or deciding whether an applied-physics manuscript bridging fundamental physics and devices, quantum technology, photonics, energy, or sensing fits this APS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Physical Review Applied (physical-review-applied)
Journal positioning
Physical Review Applied is the American Physical Society's journal for applied physics that bridges fundamental physics and applications. Its defining character is the explicit link between a physical mechanism and a functional consequence: PRApplied publishes work where rigorous physics enables a device, technology, or measurement capability — quantum hardware, photonic and optoelectronic devices, energy materials and conversion, sensing and metrology, spintronics, and acoustics/metamaterials. The journal sits between the discovery-oriented Physical Review family and pure engineering venues; a strong PRApplied paper is physics-grade in rigor but motivated by, and demonstrated toward, an application. Readership is the applied-physics and quantum-technology community spanning physics, materials science, and electrical engineering. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Physical Review Applied APS site.
When to trigger
- The author names Physical Review Applied as the target venue for applied-physics work connecting a physical mechanism to a device or technology.
- A manuscript demonstrates a quantum, photonic, energy, sensing, or spintronic capability grounded in rigorous physics rather than empirical engineering optimization.
- A paper advances an enabling physical principle and the author is choosing between PRApplied, Physical Review X, and an applied-physics specialist venue.
- The author needs PRApplied's application-relevance bar, evidence expectations, and desk-reject criteria before submission.
Scope & topic fit
- Quantum technology: qubits, quantum sensors, quantum control, error mitigation, and device-level demonstrations where physics enables the capability.
- Photonics and optoelectronics: lasers, detectors, integrated photonics, metasurfaces, and nonlinear optical devices with quantitative performance physics.
- Energy physics: photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries, catalysis, and energy conversion where transport or interface physics is central.
- Sensing and metrology: magnetometry, atomic and optical sensors, precision measurement, and imaging with characterized physical limits.
- Spintronics and magnetism: spin transport, magnetic memory and logic, and domain dynamics with device relevance.
- Acoustics, metamaterials, and mechanics: phononics, wave control, and structured-material devices grounded in wave physics.
Method & evidence bar
- The paper must establish both the physical mechanism and its application relevance; a device result without physics insight, or physics without a credible application link, is a misfit.
- Experimental demonstrations require characterized performance with uncertainties, benchmarking against the relevant state of the art or physical limits, and reproducibility detail.
- Theoretical/computational device proposals must be quantitatively realistic — material parameters, fabrication feasibility, and noise/loss budgets — not idealized in-principle schemes only.
- Claims of improvement (efficiency, coherence, sensitivity) must be supported by quantitative comparison and, where relevant, statistical analysis across samples or runs.
- Methods must be reproducible: fabrication, measurement setup, calibration, and data processing documented in the paper or Supplemental Material.
- Data and code supporting key results should be available where reproducibility depends on them.
Structure & house style
- PRApplied uses the standard Physical Review article format with Regular Articles; length follows completeness, and a clear application motivation is expected in the framing.
- Use REVTeX with structured sections; the Introduction should state the physical principle and the targeted application together.
- The abstract states the mechanism, the demonstrated capability, and the quantitative performance result.
- Figures must be quantitative: device schematics, characterized performance curves with uncertainties, and benchmarking comparisons.
- Supplemental Material carries fabrication details, extended characterization, calibration procedures, and supporting derivations.
- Cite both the fundamental-physics and the application/device literature precisely so the bridge the paper builds is explicit.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Physical Review Applied author guidelines" and follow the current APS version.
- Re-check article-type definitions and current length and figure conventions, and the journal's application-relevance expectations.
- Re-check data-availability and code-availability requirements; confirm Supplemental Material formatting and deposition expectations.
- Re-check competing-interests, funding, and AI-use disclosure requirements; confirm preprint policy (arXiv posting is standard and compatible).
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence — the physical mechanism and the application capability this paper connects.
- Experimental performance is characterized with uncertainties and benchmarked against the state of the art or physical limits.
- A device proposal (if theoretical) uses realistic parameters and addresses fabrication/noise feasibility.
- Improvement claims are backed by quantitative comparison across samples or runs.
- Fabrication, measurement, and calibration methods are reproducible from the paper or Supplemental Material.
- The paper is positioned against recent PRApplied / PRX and the relevant device literature.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A pure device-engineering optimization with no physical insight, or a physics result with no credible application link.
- An idealized theoretical scheme with unrealistic parameters and no path to a real device.
- A performance claim without uncertainties or benchmarking against the relevant state of the art.
- A fundamental-physics study with no application relevance that belongs in PRE, PRB, or PRX.
- An incremental materials or device variation with no new enabling principle or capability.
Re-routing decision
- Exceptionally broad, transformative result across physics:
physical-review-x. - Fundamental condensed-matter physics without device focus:
physical-review-b. - Quantum-information-science result with broad significance:
prx-quantum. - Discipline-specific applied venue beyond APS scope: Applied Physics Letters / Journal of Applied Physics (AIP), Optica/Optics Express (Optica), or ACS Photonics depending on subfield.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Physical Review Applied
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the paper connect a rigorous physical mechanism to a demonstrated, benchmarked application capability?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <article type / length conventions / Supplemental Material / data-code deposition / disclosure / preprint policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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