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Physical Review Applied Now Requires Institutional Credentials

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May 16, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Access to the journal Physical Review Applied will change on August 1, requiring users to authenticate through their institutional credentials instead of relying on existing APS Journal Account logins. The American Physical Society is implementing this change to streamline access for readers affiliated with U.S. public and high school institutions, utilizing both Shibboleth/OpenAthens and direct institutional username/password verification. After this date, APS member subscribers will no longer be able to use their current APS Journal Account credentials for access. This move indicates a content authorization approach beyond APS membership, ensuring broader institutional access to published research.

Beginning August 1, readers with subscriptions through the American Physical Society will experience a change in how they access Physical Review Applied, transitioning from APS Journal Account credentials to direct member logins. This change reflects an evolving authorization system designed to refine access protocols beyond subscription status; the journal supports both Shibboleth/OpenAthens institutional logins and direct username/password authentication. Access is being facilitated for users affiliated with U.S. public or high school institutions, extending the reach of physics research to educational sectors. Physical Review Applied is a trademark of the American Physical Society, registered in the United States, and the organization provides detailed registration information online. This authentication strategy underscores a commitment to both security and broad accessibility for a diverse readership, ensuring continued delivery of peer-reviewed physics content.

Beyond APS membership, the journal utilizes both Shibboleth/OpenAthens and direct institutional username/password logins, demonstrating a layered approach to verifying authorized access. The American Physical Society is facilitating access for users affiliated with U.S. public or high school institutions, extending the reach of its published research. Information regarding registration details is publicly available, providing transparency around the ownership and protection of these intellectual properties. These measures ensure the continued integrity and controlled distribution of research published by the society, and the American Physical Society maintains strict control over its trademarks, with registration information available on the society’s website, safeguarding its brand identity and published works.

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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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