Physical Review
In 1893 the "Physical Review" was established at Cornell University. It was taken over by the American Physical Society (formed in 1899) in 1913. In 1970, "Physical Review" was subdivided into "Physical Review A", "B", "C", and "D". At that time section "A" was subtitled "Physical Review A: General Physics". In 1990 a process was started to split this journal into two, resulting in the creation of "Physical Review E" in 1993. Hence, in 1993, "Physical Review A" changed its statement of scope to "Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics." In January 2007, the section of "Physical Review E" that published papers on classical optics was merged into "Physical Review A", unifying the classical and quantum parts of optics into a single journal. In 2016, "Physical Review A" broadened its formal statement of coverage to explicitly include quantum information, which has been a section within the journal since 1998.