Volume 101, Issue 16

17 October 2008

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Experiment to observe the Rydberg series formed by a proton bound to an H^- ion. Heavy Bohr atoms are created from a beam of H₂ molecules (yellow) subjected to a two-step laser excitation process. They decay into electrons and H₂⁺ ions (orange), which are directed by electric field pulses for subsequent detection.

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Observation of a Rydberg Series in $H^{+} H^{-}$ : A Heavy Bohr Atom
M. O. Vieitez, T. I. Ivanov, E. Reinhold, C. A. de Lange, and W. Ubachs
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163001 (2008)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Fifty Years of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics in Physical Review Letters

Serge Haroche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160001 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Lifshitz Force between an Atom and a Conductor with a Small Density of Carriers

L. P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163202 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Contribution of Drifting Carriers to the Casimir-Lifshitz and Casimir-Polder Interactions With Semiconductor Materials

Diego A. R. Dalvit and Steve K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163203 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Casimir Interaction of Dielectric Gratings

Astrid Lambrecht and Valery N. Marachevsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160403 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

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High-Energy Collision of Two Black Holes

Ulrich Sperhake, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Emanuele Berti, and José A. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161101 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

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Observation of Slip Flow in Thermophoresis

Franz M. Weinert and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 168301 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

$p_{x} + i p_{y}$ Superfluid from $s$ -Wave Interactions of Fermionic Cold Atoms

Chuanwei Zhang, Sumanta Tewari, Roman M. Lutchyn, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160401 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Exact Results for Casimir Interactions between Dielectric Bodies: The Weak-Coupling or van der Waals Limit

Kimball A. Milton, Prachi Parashar, and Jef Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160402 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Casimir Interaction of Dielectric Gratings

Astrid Lambrecht and Valery N. Marachevsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160403 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Pumping Restriction Theorem for Stochastic Networks

V. Y. Chernyak and N. A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 160601 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Energy Collision of Two Black Holes

Ulrich Sperhake, Vitor Cardoso, Frans Pretorius, Emanuele Berti, and José A. González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161101 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Black Holes in Loop Quantum Gravity: The Complete Space-Time

Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161301 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Observation and Polarization Measurements of $B^{\pm} \to ϕ K_{1}^{\pm}$ and $B^{\pm} \to ϕ K_{2}^{* \pm}$

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161801 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Minimal Supergravity Scalar Neutrino Dark Matter and Inverse Seesaw Neutrino Masses

C. Arina, F. Bazzocchi, N. Fornengo, J. C. Romao, and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 161802 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Corrections to Three-Jet Observables in Electron-Positron Annihilation

Stefan Weinzierl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 162001 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Onset of $π^{0}$ Suppression Studied in $Cu + Cu$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 22.4$ , 62.4, and 200 GeV

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 162301 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

The Magnetic Component of Quark-Gluon Plasma is also a Liquid

Jinfeng Liao and Edward Shuryak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 162302 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of a Rydberg Series in $H^{+} H^{-}$ : A Heavy Bohr Atom

M. O. Vieitez, T. I. Ivanov, E. Reinhold, C. A. de Lange, and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163001 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Suppression of Photoionization by a Static Field

Ido Gilary, Yesodharan Sajeev, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Alexander Croy, Christoph M. Goletz, Shachar Klaiman, Milan Šindelka, Martin Winter, Waltraut Wustmann, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163002 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Anomalous Bumpy Structures in the Capture Cross Sections of Antiprotons by Helium

X. M. Tong, K. Hino, and N. Toshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163201 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal Lifshitz Force between an Atom and a Conductor with a Small Density of Carriers

L. P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163202 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Contribution of Drifting Carriers to the Casimir-Lifshitz and Casimir-Polder Interactions With Semiconductor Materials

Diego A. R. Dalvit and Steve K. Lamoreaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163203 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Stationary-Light Polaritons

Michael Fleischhauer, Johannes Otterbach, and Razmik G. Unanyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163601 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Spatial Symmetry and Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

Sheng Feng and Prem Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163602 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Application of the Lifshitz Theory to Poor Conductors

Vitaly B. Svetovoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163603 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Capacity Limits of Information Transport in Fiber-Optic Networks

René-Jean Essiambre, Gerard J. Foschini, Gerhard Kramer, and Peter J. Winzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163901 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Ultrasmall Volume Plasmons, yet with Complete Retardation Effects

Eyal Feigenbaum and Meir Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163902 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Physical Mechanism of Ultrafast Flame Acceleration

Vitaly Bychkov, Damir Valiev, and Lars-Erik Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 164501 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium States in Microfluidic Double Emulsions

Nicolas Pannacci, Henrik Bruus, Denis Bartolo, Isabelle Etchart, Thibaut Lockhart, Yves Hennequin, Hervé Willaime, and Patrick Tabeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 164502 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Efficiency Deflection of High-Energy Protons through Axial Channeling in a Bent Crystal

Walter Scandale et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 164801 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Generating Monoenergetic Heavy-Ion Bunches with Laser-Induced Electrostatic Shocks

Liangliang Ji, Baifei Shen, Xiaomei Zhang, Fengchao Wang, Zhangyin Jin, Xuemei Li, Meng Wen, and John R. Cary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 164802 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Optimization of a Seeded Free-Electron Laser with Helical Undulators

M. Labat, M. Hosaka, M. Shimada, M. Katoh, and M. E. Couprie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 164803 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Characterization of Nondiffusive Transport in Plasma Turbulence via a Novel Lagrangian Method

J. A. Mier, R. Sánchez, L. García, B. A. Carreras, and D. E. Newman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165001 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Magnetic Effects on the Coalescence of Kelvin-Helmholtz Vortices

T. K. M. Nakamura and M. Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165002 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Resistive-Wall-Mode Active Rotation in the RFX-Mod Device

T. Bolzonella, V. Igochine, S. C. Guo, D. Yadikin, M. Baruzzo, and H. Zohm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165003 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Influence of Film-Mediated Interactions on the Microwave and Radio Frequency Spectrum of Spin-Polarized Hydrogen on Helium Films

Kaden R. A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165301 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Direct Observation of $H_{2}$ Binding to a Metal Oxide Surface

J. Z. Larese, T. Arnold, L. Frazier, R. J. Hinde, and A. J. Ramirez-Cuesta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165302 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Torsional Oscillator and Synchrotron X-Ray Experiments on Solid ${}^{4}{He}$ in Aerogel

N. Mulders, J. T. West, M. H. W. Chan, C. N. Kodituwakku, C. A. Burns, and L. B. Lurio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165303 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Dynamic Recrystallization as a Potential Cause for Adiabatic Shear Failure

D. Rittel, P. Landau, and A. Venkert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165501 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Phonon Transport in Isotope-Disordered Carbon and Boron-Nitride Nanotubes: Is Localization Observable?

Ivana Savić, Natalio Mingo, and Derek A. Stewart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165502 (2008) - Published 13 October, 2008

Room-Temperature Self-Assembly of Equilateral Triangular Clusters via Friedel Oscillations

G. Manai, K. Radican, F. Delogu, and I. V. Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165701 (2008) - Published 14 October, 2008

Lattice Model for Colloidal Gels and Glasses

Florent Krzakala, Marco Tarzia, and Lenka Zdeborová

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165702 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Thermal Signatures of the Kondo Volume Collapse in Cerium

M. J. Lipp, D. Jackson, H. Cynn, C. Aracne, W. J. Evans, and A. K. McMahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165703 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

$(Sr, Mn) {TiO}_{3}$ : A Magnetoelectric Multiglass

V. V. Shvartsman, S. Bedanta, P. Borisov, W. Kleemann, A. Tkach, and P. M. Vilarinho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 165704 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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ERRATA

Erratum: Confined Quantum Time of Arrivals [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 180406 (2004)]

Eric A. Galapon, Roland F. Caballar, and Ricardo T. Bahague Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 169901 (2008) - Published 15 October, 2008

Publisher’s Note: Erratum: Strong Friction Limit in Quantum Mechanics: The Quantum Smoluchowski Equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 086802 (2001)] [Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 119903 (2008)]

Joachim Ankerhold and Hermann Grabert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 169902 (2008) - Published 16 October, 2008

Erratum: Ultrawide-Bandwidth Slow-Light System Based on THz Plasmonic Graded Metallic Grating Structures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 256803 (2008)]

Qiaoqiang Gan, Zhan Fu, Yujie J. Ding, and Filbert J. Bartoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 169903 (2008) - Published 17 October, 2008

Volume 101, Issue 16

On the Cover

From the article:

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

ERRATA