Dear Editorial Advisory Board members,

First of all, a warm welcome to you all, and thank you very much again for joining our Board. It currently comprises the proud number of 40 international members. You should now all be mentioned at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2511-9044/homepage/2820_edbd.html. (Please check if the listed information is complete and let us know if you require any changes.)

To reiterate what we have formulated as journal scope:

Advanced Quantum Technologies is an international, interdisciplinary journal for peer-reviewed, high-quality, high-impact theoretical and experimental research in the fields of basic and application-related quantum-based communication, computation, control, engineering, information, metrology, optics, sensing and simulation, as well as related areas such as nanophotonics, quasiparticle excitations, topological materials, superconductors, micro- and nano-electromechanical systems, ultracold atoms and others.

Core information on Advanced Quantum Technologies may be found on our news portal Advanced Science News at http://www.advancedsciencenews.com/advanced-quantum-technologies, including an extensive keyword list at the bottom of the page, in which some of your recent suggestions have also been included. (Obviously further refinements or extensions of this information are possible.) Feel free to forward this link to your colleagues and collaborators.

The journal homepage is http://www.advquantumtech.com. It is open for submission at http://www.editorialmanager.com/advquantumtech - the first few manuscripts have been received. The Editorial Office can be contacted by e-mail at advquantumtech@wiley.com. Our editorial team comprises Matteo Cavalleri, Hoboken; Maria E. Stournara, Berlin; Huan Wang, Beijing and myself as Editor-in-Chief.

We would like to bring the new journal on track as soon as possible and therefore hope for your support. Please spread the news about QUTE in your community and region. Ideally we would appreciate if you and/or your collaborators/colleagues could submit a paper within the next ~3 months – a regular research paper (Communication, Full Paper) or a proposal for an overview article (e.g. Review or Progress Report). Please also provide further suggestions for potential authors and topics that should be covered in the journal.

At the symposium on “The Second Quantum Revolution” last week in Berlin I was asked to describe the aim of the new publication within one sentence, especially for those communities that are not so familiar with the Advanced journal concept. Perhaps a few bullet points should do: high quality – topical relevance – high visibility – which should ultimately also generate good citation levels. While we will adopt a strict and professional peer review process with expert assessments we do not strive for breakthrough work only – this might be quite inappropriate for a journal that has not even launched yet. So QUTE should also be open for specialized and interesting technical work, both basic and applied, theory and experiment, as long as the results are unpublished and new. In that sense we are looking forward to your and many other contributions to Advanced Quantum Technologies!

Best regards, Stefan and team