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What is a soliton?

What is a soliton? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (physics) a self-reinforcing travelling wave or pulse caused by any non-linear effect; found in many physical systems
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The importance of intrinsic analysis of nonlinear phenomena has been gradually understood, and led to soliton and strange attractor concepts.
Upon increasing the temperature, we find a temperature-induced crossover of the soliton and the emergence of new features, such as interbreather transitions.
We also characterize the pseudoumbilical ones in terms of soliton curves for the inverse curve shortening flow and minimal Legendrian immersions in odd-dimensional spheres.
A soliton is an ultra stable wave train often with a seemly simple closed shape, which can arise in the context of non-linear wave oscillations.
The cnoidal wave is also modulationally unstable due to soliton overlapping.
What Scott Russell saw is now called a soliton.

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