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We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed issue Festschrift for Peter Toennies – New horizons in the dynamics of molecules: from gases to surfaces is now online and free to access until the beginning of July 2021.

This themed issue is in honour of Professor Jan-Peter Toennies on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Professor Toennies is a very well-known physical chemist, Emeritus Director of the Max Planck Institute für Strömungsforschung (now the MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation) in Göttingen, and is still actively publishing even today. A few of his fields of research are molecular beams scattering in the gas phase, chemical reactions, atomic and molecular beams scattering from surfaces, surface structure and dynamics, He dimers, small clusters and nanodroplets.

Guest Edited by Professor Giorgio Benedek, Professor Joseph R. Manson and Professor Salvador Miret-Artés, this collection includes work closely related to Professor Toennies’ fields of research.

Read the full issue online
It includes:

Editorial
Festschrift for Peter Toennies – New horizons in the dynamics of molecules: from gases to surfaces
Giorgio Benedek, Joseph R. Manson and Salvador Miret-Artés
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7523-7524. DOI: 10.1039/D1CP90026A

Profile
Jan Peter Toennies: an ebullient serendipitous adventurer
Bretislav Friedrich and Dudley Herschbach
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7525-7540. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP90251A

Perspective
Metal clusters synthesized in helium droplets: structure and dynamics from experiment and theory
Wolfgang E. Ernst and Andreas Hauser
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7553-7574. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP04349D

Paper
Normal and off-normal incidence dissociative dynamics of O2(v,J) on ultrathin Cu films grown on Ru(0001)
J. G. Fallaque, M. Ramos, H. S. Busnengo, F. Martín and C. Díaz
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7768-7776. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP03979A

Paper
Alkali metal adsorption on metal surfaces: new insights from new tools
Arjun Raghavan, Louie Slocombe, Alexander Spreinat, David J. Ward, William Allison, John Ellis, Andrew P. Jardine, Marco Sacchi and Nadav Avidor
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7822-7829. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP05365A

Paper
A nuclear spin and spatial symmetry-adapted full quantum method for light particles inside carbon nanotubes: clusters of ³He, ⁴He, and para-H₂
María Pilar de Lara-Castells and Alexander O. Mitrushchenkov
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 7908-7918. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP05332E

We hope you enjoy reading the articles. Please get in touch if you have any questions about this themed collection or PCCP.

PCCP Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage themed collection now online!

We are delighted to announce that the Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) themed collection Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage is now online and free to access until the end of June 2021.

Quantum computing and information storage promise to revolutionize our information technology. Some basic theory of quantum computing has been established over the past two decades and researchers are on the cusp of quantum supremacy for truly useful systems. Yet, for quantum computing to become a reality we need to find a practical physical platform for realizing qubits with enough fidelity and depth to solve important problems. At present it is not clear what platform will succeed at this.

Guest Edited by Professor John Doyle, Professor Anna Krylov and Professor Kang-Kuen Ni, this collection highlights physical chemistry and chemical physics aspects of quantum computing and quantum information storage. We hope you enjoy reading the articles. Please get in touch if you have any questions about this themed collection or PCCP.

Read the full collection online

It includes:

Editorial
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Storage
Anna I. Krylov, John Doyle and Kang-Kuen Ni
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 6341-6343. DOI: 10.1039/D1CP90024B

Paper
In search of molecular ions for optical cycling: a difficult road
Maxim V. Ivanov, Thomas-C. Jagau, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Eric R. Hudson and Anna I. Krylov
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 17075-17090.  DOI: 10.1039/D0CP02921A

Paper
First-principles studies of strongly correlated states in defect spin qubits in diamond
He Ma, Nan Sheng, Marco Govoni and Giulia Galli
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 25522-25527. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP04585C

Paper
Coherent manipulation of the internal state of ultracold ⁸⁷Rb¹³³Cs molecules with multiple microwave fields
Jacob A. Blackmore, Philip D. Gregory, Sarah L. Bromley and Simon L. Cornish
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 27529-27538. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP04651E

Paper
Magnetic anisotropy in Yb^III complex candidates for molecular qubits: a theoretical analysis
Martín Amoza, Silvia Gómez-Coca and Eliseo Ruiz
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 1976-1983. DOI: 10.1039/D0CP05422D