Physical Review Letters · 1987 · 35 citations · 15 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsCondensed Matter PhysicsPropagationSolid State PhysicsNonlinear OpticsNonlinear Wave DynamicsSchrödinger EquationShell TheoryWave InteractionWave PropagationNonlinear Schrödinger EquationNonlinear Wave InteractionsNonlinear WavesSoliton PropagationSoliton TheorySolitonsWave Packet PropagationWave Propagation In Shells
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 Schr\"odinger equation.
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