物理评论E（PRE）广泛而多学科地涵盖了多体系统的集体现象，统计物理学和非线性动力学是该期刊的核心主题。物理评论E发表了生物物理学和软物质物理学的最新进展，包括颗粒材料、胶体、复杂流体、液晶和聚合物。该期刊涵盖了流体动力学和等离子体物理，并包括计算物理学和跨学科物理学的部分，例如复杂网络。

Physical Review E (PRE), broad and interdisciplinary in scope, focuses on collective phenomena of many-body systems, with statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics as the central themes of the journal. Physical Review E publishes recent developments in biological and soft matter physics including granular materials, colloids, complex fluids, liquid crystals, and polymers. The journal covers fluid dynamics and plasma physics and includes sections on computational and interdisciplinary physics, for example, complex networks.