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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS

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(Revised

July 2007) /info/

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Submission/Resubmission

Prior disclosure

Limitations on use of fax

Notice of acceptance; proofs

General

Length

Title, abstract, bylines

Mathematics

Acknowledgments

References and footnotes

Tables and figures

This journal, and more detailed information about it, can be found on the

World

Wide Web

at the URL

/

. Prospective authors are particularly

advised to consult the information accessible via the Authors and Manuscript

Submission subpages. Those looking for a specific known file may find it more

convenient to consult the alphabetical listing available at the Author Forms subpage

at

/

.

Manuscripts may be

submitted

by a variety of electronic modes (including via

e-print servers, direct Web upload, and email), or by conventional mail, but not by

fax. Web or e-print submission is strongly

preferred

. Interactive submission forms

are an integral part of the submission process for the e-print and Web modes. These

forms aid authors in supplying all the information needed in a structured format

which furthers efficient processing; they also provide a locatio

n for additional “free

form” information.

Please specify the author to whom correspondence should be addressed, and give

all available communications information for this individual (postal and email

addresses, phone and fax numbers), since in various circumstances they may all be

useful. Please specify journal and section to which the paper is submitted, and give

PACS (Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme

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) index categories for the

work. The scheme is available at

/PACS/

.

A

copyright-transfer

form should be sent as part of your submission. While the

transfer of copyright takes effect only upon acceptance of the paper for publication

in an APS journal, supplying the form initially can prevent unnecessary delays.

Authors submitting via the Web may fill out and submit the form electronically as

part of the submission process. Authors submitting via email or conventional mail

should download the form, available via

/

, and send a signed

hard copy to the Editorial Office (we cannot accept forms sent via email). Be sure to

use the current version, available via the above URL.

Papers should be written in scientific

English

, in a style consistent with that of the

journal. The total length of a Letter should not exceed 4 journal pages; a Comment,

1 page. (Guidelines for estimating the length of manuscripts are available on the

Author Forms subpage at

/

and at the end of some issues

of the journal.) Submission is a representation that the work is not now being

considered for publication elsewhere. Proper text reference must be made to

portions previously published

or scheduled for publication, including conference proceedings. See

Disclosure,

Phys. Rev. Lett.

52

, 2101 (1984).

Properly prepared electronic submissions that can be used directly in the APS

electronic editorial process are eligible for a publication-charge discount. Those

submissions that follow closely the APS REVTeX and Word formatting guidelines

may qualify for the compuscript production program, under which author-supplied

files are converted directly to production format and markup, rather than being

rekeyed. For detailed information about electronic submissions, please see

/ESUB

.

Manuscripts sent by

conventional mail

should be submitted to the Editors,

Physical Review Letters, 1 Research Road, Ridge, NY 11961-2701. The manuscript

must be printed (double spaced) on one side of the paper only.

Manuscripts and figures are

not routinely returned

to authors. Authors should

indicate (preferably on initial submittal) if they want the manuscript and/or figures

returned when correspondence is sent during the editorial process, and/or after a

final decision has been made.

When a manuscript is resubmitted, please include a summary of changes made and

a brief response to all recommendations and criticisms. The

interactive

resubmission forms

available on our Web server may be used for electronic-mail,

Web- upload, and hard-copy transmission of modified manuscripts and figures.

These forms should also be used when a manuscript previously submitted to one

APS journal is resubmitted to another. When resubmitting electronically, send the

complete file for the text if there have been any changes. Please refer to the online

documentation for more detailed instructions. If the resubmission is by conventional

mail, send four copies of the revised manuscript (with figures) and include the

resubmission form or equivalent information. For any resubmission, please state

whether or not the figures have been modified, and supply new

PostScript- formatted figures or scanner-reproducible figures if there have been

such changes. It is only necessary to resend the “original” figures if the previous

versions are no longer valid. Please update any other information (e.g., address and

communication information) that has changed or will change since initial

submission.

Fax

transmission of a message to the editor, summary of changes made to the

paper, or response to reviewer comments is sometimes usable by the editorial office.

Nevertheless, because of the unreliable quality of faxed copy and our limited

facilities for handling such correspondence we prefer that conventional, overnight,

or electronic mail be used instead.

Material for publication (manuscripts, replacement pages, figures) that is sent by

fax is generally unusable for review or production purposes. If you have minimal

changes to your paper, we might be able to accommodate them by copying them to

the good copy in the editorial office. If the changes are involved or numerous, this

will not be possible. You can send pages for substitution but be sure to mark the

changes so we can judge what is required if we are to consider transcribing them. In

any case, send good copy by conventional or overnight mail as soon as possible. We

may not be able to proceed until it arrives.

Authors

are notified by electronic mail or fax of the editorial acceptance of their

article. When a revised manuscript or electronic file is received after that,

corrections are made by our production vendor to their SGML file already in

existence. If the revisions are not separately and explicitly described, the author

may be requested by the editorial office to provide such a description. When

technical or styling questions arise during the production process, we attempt to

contact the author by phone, electronic mail, or fax. Authors are given the

opportunity to examine proofs, normally via the Web.

The following are general guidelines for preparation of a conventional manuscript or

a compuscript. In addition, memos regarding production requirements appear at

the end of some issues of the journal. For

general format and style

consult recent

issues of this journal and the

Physical Review Style and Notation Guide

at

/STYLE/

. Additional style guidelines can be found in the

Fourth Edition of the

AIP Style Manual

, available at

/pubservs/

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A

manuscript

, comprising all material which is to be set in type, must be

typewritten (except possibly for mathematical expressions and Greek letters; see

below), double spaced (3 lines per inch, at least 6 mm of white space between lines)

in type size such that there are

90 characters/6 in., on one side only of good

quality, white, approximately 8.5 x 11-in. (or A4) paper, with margins of at least 1

in. along four edges. A clear, sharp, nonerasable, black-on-white reproduction on

hard-surfaced paper is acceptable as the

title page). Include copies of any figures at the end of the manuscript.

Mathematical expressions should be typed, or neatly written in ink. The prime

requisite is that the copy shall be clear to the production keyboarder, who is neither

a physicist nor a mathematician. Unusual or ambiguous symbols (see table on page

21 of the Style Manual) should be identified by marginal notes at first appearance

and subsequently when confusion might arise; for nonalphabetic symbols, give the

number found on pages 44 and 45 of the Style Manual. Mark superscripts with an

inverted caret below, and subscripts with a caret above, if necessary. Three-vectors

and dyadics are set in boldface type (mark with a black-pencil, wiggly underline).

Editorial marking by authors, except for the resolution of ambiguities as discussed

above, is rarely of sufficient value to warrant the effort.

The author must carefully

proofread

the paper to eliminate grammatical errors,

misspellings, and omission of symbols. The text should be directed at a

general

readership

, not specialists. Avoid acronyms and jargon, even if they seem of

common usage. If unavoidable, define them in the text.

Notation

should be

unambiguous, concise, and consistent with standard usage. Introduce new

terminology or notation only when clearly needed. Indent all paragraphs. Use the

solidus (slash) only to denote division of mathematical quantities, to denote

(optionally) an interface between materials [e.g., Ag/Cu(001)], and in

meaning when used between words is usually imprecise; use the proper conjunction

or punctuation.

The

length

of the paper is crucial. Avoid excess white space in figures; unneeded

numbering of displayed equations may add length; references which are incomplete

may lead to an underestimate of the length; and note that right-adjusted text or

text with very nonuniform line length is subject to greater error in its estimated

length. Also note that equations in text (undisplayed) must be simple; some

equations which are presented in text may need to be displayed in the journal and

thus add to the length.

Ideally, figures are planned for reduction to final journal size on the basis of their

content and detail. The size of lettering should be chosen with this in mind. If the

lettering is drafted too small, full reduction will not be possible; the length will have

been underestimated. At final reduction, the size of the smallest capital letters and

numerals is to be at least 2 mm.