In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a nonlinear, self-reinforcing, localized wave packet that is strongly stable, in that it preserves its shape...
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Look up soliton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A soliton is a type of self-reinforcing solitary wave. Soliton may also refer to: Soliton (optics)...
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A gravitational soliton is a soliton solution of the Einstein field equation. It can be separated into two kinds, a soliton of the vacuum Einstein field...
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A soliton distribution is a type of discrete probability distribution that arises in the theory of erasure correcting codes, which use information redundancy...
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a vector soliton is a solitary wave with multiple components coupled together that maintains its shape during propagation. Ordinary solitons maintain...
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Sine-Gordon equation (redirect from Sine-Gordon soliton)
equation attracted a lot of attention in the 1970s due to the presence of soliton solutions, and is an example of an integrable PDE. Among well-known integrable...
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The Peregrine soliton (or Peregrine breather) is an analytic solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This soliton or breather solution was proposed...
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Topological defect (redirect from Soliton (topology))
In mathematics and physics, solitons, topological solitons and topological defects are three closely related ideas, all of which signify structures in...
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Riemannian manifold ( M , g ) {\displaystyle (M,g)} is called a Ricci soliton if, and only if, there exists a smooth vector field V {\displaystyle V}...
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In quantum biology, the Davydov soliton (after the Soviet Ukrainian physicist Alexander Davydov) is a quasiparticle representing an excitation propagating...
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translation, as observed by John Scott Russell in 1834, the prototype for a soliton. A soliton, a generalization of the wave of translation to general systems of...
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Q-ball (category Solitons)
non-topological soliton. A soliton is a localized field configuration that is stable—it cannot spread out and dissipate. In the case of a non-topological soliton, the...
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In optics, the term soliton is used to refer to any optical field that does not change during propagation because of a delicate balance between nonlinear...
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Plasmon (section Plasmon-soliton)
graphene-dielectric heterostructure may appear as in the form of higher order solitons or discrete solitons resulting from the competition between diffraction and nonlinearity...
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The soliton hypothesis in neuroscience is a model that claims to explain how action potentials are initiated and conducted along axons based on a thermodynamic...
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focusing regions of the ionosphere; the propagation of Davydov's alpha-helix solitons, which are responsible for energy transport along molecular chains; and...
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Skyrmion (section Topological soliton)
the nucleon by (and named after) Tony Skyrme in 1961. As a topological soliton in the pion field, it has the remarkable property of being able to model...
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given as follows: Static 1-soliton: pseudosphere Moving 1-soliton: Dini's surface Breather solution: Breather surface 2-soliton: Kuen surface Hilbert's theorem...
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Supercontinuum (section Soliton fission regime)
dispersive waves to be coupled with the solitons via the soliton trapping effect. This effect means that as the soliton self-frequency shifts to longer wavelengths...
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Modified Morlet wavelet (redirect from Dark soliton)
Morlet and Dark soliton or Darklet wavelets are derived from hyperbolic (sech) (bright soliton) and hyperbolic tangent (tanh) (dark soliton) pulses. These...
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Elsevier (redirect from Chaos, Solitons and Fractals)
2010. "Publisher's note". Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 39: v–. 2009. doi:10.1016/S0960-0779(09)00060-5. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. November 2011. Archived...
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Dissipative solitons (DSs) are stable solitary localized structures (solitons) that arise in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms...
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Silicon photonics (section Solitons)
the possibility to support exotic nonlinear optical phenomena such as soliton propagation. In a typical optical link, data is first transferred from...
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Soliton Incorporated is a Canadian company formed in 1993 to continue supporting and developing the programming language Sharp APL, and related products...
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Ricci flow (section Ricci solitons)
solutions are called steady Ricci solitons. An example of a 3-dimensional steady Ricci soliton is the Bryant soliton, which is rotationally symmetric,...
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In quantum field theory, a non-topological soliton (NTS) is a soliton field configuration possessing, contrary to a topological one, a conserved Noether...
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theory of integrable systems was revived with the numerical discovery of solitons by Martin Kruskal and Norman Zabusky in 1965, which led to the inverse...
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and Russian mathematician, noted for work in both algebraic topology and soliton theory. He became the first Soviet mathematician to receive the Fields...
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Among other causes, studies of nonlinear waves such as the Peregrine soliton, and waves modeled by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS), suggest...
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Fiber laser (section Dark solitons)
of a vector soliton in fiber lasers", Optics Express, 16,12618–12623 (2008). Zhang H.; et al. (2009). "Multi-wavelength dissipative soliton operation of...
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