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                                                               revised 02/05

           COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS PAPERS IN PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Physical Review E welcomes contributions to the section on
computational physics (Section E-16).  Appropriate  papers for this
section are  those that describe new developments of computational
methods, or substantial improvements of existing computational methods,
provided they are applicable to significant physics problems.  In many
cases such a paper will improve its impact by explicitly demonstrating
the usefulness of the described method, i.e., by applying it to some
physics problem (old or new).  However, it should be noted that such an
application is not a necessary condition for eligibility.  Rather, the
requirement that ``papers must contain new results in physics'' should
be interpreted as a requirement of novelty with respect to the
method(s), the physics, or both.  The application of well established
standard methods to new problems in physics will also be considered in
this section, but only if the paper fits into the general scope of the
Physical Review, and cannot be classified into another existing
section, which otherwise should take precedence.  Since the
computational physics section of Physical Review E is the only
section in the Physical Review specifically targeted at
computational techniques, it contains papers whose physics background
is distributed over all five journals.  The section thus aims to
provide a general platform for the computational physics community.
Highly specific information, such as listings of programs, etc., should
be reserved for supplementary material that would not appear in the
published article, but could appear, for example in EPAPS 
(http://forms.aps.org/author/epapsinstr.html).

We also call your attention to our short-paper sections.  Rapid
Communications are intended for new results that deserve accelerated
publication.  Papers submitted to this section are given priority in
editorial processing and production to minimize the time between
receipt and publication.  Brief Reports are accounts of completed
research that do not warrant regular articles or the priority handling
given to Rapid Communications (for example, addenda are published as
Brief Reports).  We emphasize, however, that all sections of
Physical Review are judged by the same scientific standards.

We will, of course, be happy to answer specific questions concerning
the appropriateness of particular articles.  Please feel free to
contact us at http://pre.aps.org.  For further information please visit
http://publish.aps.org.