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    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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  • 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 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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  • 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 vector soliton is a solitary wave with multiple components coupled together that maintains its shape during propagation. Ordinary solitons maintain...
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  • 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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  • Topological defects or solitons are irregularities or disruptions that occur within continuous fields or ordered states of matter. These defects, which...
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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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    The Peregrine soliton (or Peregrine breather) is an analytic solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. This solution was proposed in 1983 by Howell...
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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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  • 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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    In quantum biology, the Davydov soliton (after the Soviet Ukrainian physicist Alexander Davydov) is a quasiparticle representing an excitation propagating...
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    Korteweg–De Vries equation (category Solitons)
    integrable PDE, such as a large number of explicit solutions, in particular soliton solutions, and an infinite number of conserved quantities, despite the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Dissipative solitons (DSs) are stable solitary localized structures that arise in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    (1997). Solitons, non-linear pulses and beams. Springer. ISBN 978-0-412-75450-0. Miroshnichenko A, Vasiliev A, Dmitriev S. Solitons and Soliton Collisions...
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  • is a holomorphic vector field, one has a gradient Kähler-Ricci soliton. Ricci solitons are sometimes considered as generalizations of Einstein metrics...
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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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    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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  • 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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