Volume 97, Issue 21

24 November 2006

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Model of a horseshoe bat's noseleaf, which consists of protuberances around the nostrils, and the sound pressure amplitude (planes, blue through red) with local maxima at the lancet furrows (black arrows). These furrows are not adjacent to the nostrils (other maxima), but act as resonance cavities, shaping the sonar beam. See article 218701 and

From the article:

Noseleaf Furrows in a Horseshoe Bat Act as Resonance Cavities Shaping the Biosonar Beam
Qiao Zhuang and Rolf Müller
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 218701 (2006)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Torque Detection using Brownian Fluctuations

Giovanni Volpe and Dmitri Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210603 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Noseleaf Furrows in a Horseshoe Bat Act as Resonance Cavities Shaping the Biosonar Beam

Qiao Zhuang and Rolf Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 218701 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

LETTERS

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

Ground and Excited States of Spinor Fermi Gases in Tight Waveguides and the Lieb-Liniger-Heisenberg Model

M. D. Girardeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210401 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Sarma Phase in Trapped Unbalanced Fermi Gases

K. B. Gubbels, M. W. J. Romans, and H. T. C. Stoof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210402 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Quantum Stochastic Synchronization

Igor Goychuk, Jesús Casado-Pascual, Manuel Morillo, Jörg Lehmann, and Peter Hänggi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210601 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Extreme Events in Deterministic Dynamical Systems

C. Nicolis, V. Balakrishnan, and G. Nicolis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210602 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Torque Detection using Brownian Fluctuations

Giovanni Volpe and Dmitri Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 210603 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Elementary Particles and Fields

Amplitude for $N$ -Gluon Superstring Scattering

Stephan Stieberger and Tomasz R. Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 211601 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Difficulties for Five-Dimensional Gauge-Higgs Unification

Bohdan Grzadkowski and José Wudka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 211602 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Measurement of the $B \to π l ν$ Branching Fraction and Determination of $| V_{u b} |$ with Tagged $B$ Mesons

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 211801 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-}$ and Measurements of Branching Fractions of Charmless Two-Body Decays of $B^{0}$ and $B_{s}^{0}$ Mesons in $\bar{p} p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 1.96 TeV$

A. Abulencia et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 211802 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Measurements of the Generalized Electric and Magnetic Polarizabilities of the Proton at Low $Q^{2}$ Using the Virtual-Compton-Scattering Reaction

P. Bourgeois et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 212001 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Nuclear Physics

QCD Collisional Energy Loss Reexamined

A. Peshier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 212301 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cooling by Spontaneous Decay of Highly Excited Antihydrogen Atoms in Magnetic Traps

T. Pohl, H. R. Sadeghpour, Y. Nagata, and Y. Yamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 213001 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Formation of $H_{3}^{+}$ due to Intramolecular Bond Rearrangement in Doubly Charged Methanol

Sankar De, Jyoti Rajput, A. Roy, P. N. Ghosh, and C. P. Safvan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 213201 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Search for Laser-Induced Formation of Antihydrogen Atoms

M. Amoretti et al. (ATHENA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 213401 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Composite Lattice Pattern Formation in a Wide-Aperture Thin-Slice Solid-State Laser with Imperfect Reflective Ends

Kenju Otsuka, Yoshihiko Miyasaka, Tatsuro Narita, Shu-Chun Chu, Chi-Ching Lin, and Jing-Yuan Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 213901 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

All-Optical Noninvasive Control of Unstable Steady States in a Semiconductor Laser

S. Schikora, P. Hövel, H.-J. Wünsche, E. Schöll, and F. Henneberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 213902 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Statistical Description of Eigenfunctions in Chaotic and Weakly Disordered Systems beyond Universality

Juan Diego Urbina and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 214101 (2006) - Published 22 November, 2006

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Two-Dimensional Ir Cluster Lattice on a Graphene Moiré on Ir(111)

Alpha T. N’Diaye, Sebastian Bleikamp, Peter J. Feibelman, and Thomas Michely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 215501 (2006) - Published 20 November, 2006

Slip, Yield, and Bands in Colloidal Crystals under Oscillatory Shear

Itai Cohen, Benny Davidovitch, Andrew B. Schofield, Michael P. Brenner, and David A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 215502 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006

Three-Dimensional $GaN − {Ga}_{2} O_{3}$ Core Shell Structure Revealed by X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy

Jianwei Miao, Chien-Chun Chen, Changyong Song, Yoshinori Nishino, Yoshiki Kohmura, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Damien Ramunno-Johnson, Ting-Kuo Lee, and Subhash H. Risbud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 215503 (2006) - Published 21 November, 2006