From: prx@aps.org
Subject: Your_manuscript WJ10056X Hirsch
Date: March 3, 2020 at 08:48:31 PST
To: jhirsch@ucsd.edu
Reply-To: prx@aps.org

Re: WJ10056X
   How Alfven's theorem explains the Meissner effect
   by J. E. Hirsch

Dear Dr. Hirsch,

First of all, the editors of Physical Review X (PRX) would like to
thank you most sincerely for your interest in, and support to, our
journal.

We have now completed our initial editorial assessment of the
manuscript.

Although for this purpose we do not judge the technical aspects of
your work, we are prepared, at this stage, to believe that it was
competently executed and is technically correct. We would like to
think that the manuscript will be an interesting and useful addition
to the current studies of superconductivity. At the same time,
unfortunately, our general view is that the paper is more an
incremental contribution rather than a qualitatively influential
contribution and that as such its overall scientific significance as
well as its potential impact do not rise to the key-paper level that
PRX is currently setting in accordance with the journal's mission (see
below).

Now in its ninth year PRX aims to cement its reputation as a
high-profile venue for a limited number (in the low hundreds per year)
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we must apply the high standards stringently and this will be an
on-going process for sometime to come. We hope that this early
decision on our part will allow you to pursue publication of the work
in another, suitable journal in a timely fashion. We sincerely wish
you success in that regard.

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Yours sincerely,

Yiming Xu
Associate Editor
Physical Review X
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