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physical-review-letters
Use when targeting Physical Review Letters (PRL) or deciding whether a physics manuscript fits this Letter-format, broad-importance venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Physical Review Letters (physical-review-letters)
## Journal positioning
Physical Review Letters is the APS flagship Letters journal and the premier rapid-communication venue across all of physics. Every accepted paper must satisfy two simultaneous editorial criteria: it must be important enough to interest physicists working in fields other than the author's own subfield, and it must report a result of sufficient immediacy to justify the Letter format. The length limit is a permanent structural gate of the journal's identity — not a soft recommendation — and authors must re-check the current official limit before preparing a manuscript. PRL is genuinely cross-subfield: a condensed-matter paper that is relevant only to condensed-matter readers will be redirected regardless of its technical quality.
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 APS site and the Physical Review Letters submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author is targeting PRL for a concise result with claimed broad physics significance.
- A manuscript has been rejected from Nature/Science and the author is deciding between PRL and a Physical Review subfield journal (PRB, PRD, PRC, PRE).
- A result is complete and timely but the author is unsure whether it clears PRL's cross-subfield-significance bar versus being appropriate for `physical-review-b`, `physical-review-d`, or `prx-quantum`.
- The author needs PRL's length-gate and significance heuristics before beginning the manuscript.