Nature Physics publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of physics, pure and applied. The journal content reflects core physics disciplines, but is also open to a broad range of topics whose central theme falls within the bounds of physics. Theoretical physics, particularly where it is pertinent to experiment, also features. Research areas covered in the journal include:
- Quantum physics
- Atomic and molecular physics
- Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
- Condensed-matter physics
- Fluid dynamics
- Optical physics
- Chemical physics
- Information theory and computation
- Electronics, photonics and device physics
- Nanotechnology
- Nuclear physics
- Plasma physics
- High-energy particle physics
- Astrophysics and cosmology
- Biophysics
- Geophysics