The scope of EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B spans the fields of Condensed Matter, Mesoscopic and Nanoscaled systems, and Statistical Mechanics and Non-linear Physics (a non-exhaustive list of subtopics in each field is given below). We welcome submissions of original research papers, either theoretical, simulations and/or experimental.The aim of the journal is to report new physics accessed by any of these approaches. Manuscripts that limit themselves to reporting results without advancing our fundamental understanding of physics will not be considered for publication. Papers clearly on the applied physics side will be either rejected or redirected to EPJ AP or EPJ Plus. Likewise, manuscripts reporting results on complex systems without a relation to physics will be either rejected or redirected to EPJ data science.