Drift solitons and their two-dimensional stability
- 1 July 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 16 (1), 402-405
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.16.402
Abstract
The nonlinear equation governing low-frequency drift waves is considered. Utilizing the linear dispersion relation for such waves, it is shown that there exists a parameter range for which the drift waves are governed by a modified Korteweg-de Vries equation having a solitary solution in one and two dimensions. The one-dimensional solitons are unstable with respect to perturbations in the direction perpendicular to their motion.Keywords
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