The main field of interest is collective phenomena of many-body systems.

Although the focus of this journal is many-body phenomena, the broad scope of the journal includes quantum chaos, soft matter physics, classical chaos, biological physics and granular materials.

This action unified the classical and quantum parts of optics into a single journal.

[3] Physical Review E Rapid Communications was announced on June 7, 2010.

This section (or feature) gives priority to results which are deemed significant, and merits a prominent display on the Physical Review E website.