Observation of Envelope Solitons in Solids
- 14 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (24), 2744-2747
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.2744
Abstract
We have observed highly nonlinear localized wave packets propagating as flexural modes of thin shells. They maintain their structure in a collision and have envelopes in quantitative agreement with the soliton solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.Keywords
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