Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Soliton

Index Soliton

In mathematics and physics, a soliton is a self-reinforcing solitary wave packet that maintains its shape while it propagates at a constant velocity. [1]

110 relations: Amplitude, Analytic function, Arcus cloud, AT&T Corporation, Bell Labs, Binary prefix, Born–Infeld model, Boundary value problem, Breather, C. V. Raman, Classical Heisenberg model, Cnoidal wave, Compacton, Cosmic string, Crystal structure, Daniel Bernoulli, David Finkelstein, Diederik Korteweg, Dirac string, Dislocation, Dispersion (optics), Dispersion relation, Domain wall (string theory), Electromagnetism, Erbium, Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem, Fiber laser, Finite difference, Fluid dynamics, Fluid parcel, Fred Tappert, George Biddell Airy, Gulf of Carpentaria, Gustav de Vries, Homotopy, Homotopy group, Integrable system, Internal wave, Inverse scattering transform, Inversion (meteorology), Isaac Newton, Ishimori equation, John Scott Russell, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, Kerr effect, Korteweg–de Vries equation, Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation, Lax pair, Light bullet, ..., Low-frequency collective motion in proteins and DNA, Magnetic monopole, Magnetic skyrmion, Manakov system, Marine habitats, Martin David Kruskal, Mathematics, Modified Morlet wavelet, Momentum, Morning Glory cloud, Nematicon, Neuron, Neuroscience, Non-topological soliton, Nonlinear optics, Nonlinear Schrödinger equation, Nonlinear system, Norman Zabusky, Optical fiber, Orange S.A., Oscillon, Partial differential equation, Pattern formation, Peakon, Peregrine soliton, Peter Lax, Phase (waves), Philosophical Magazine, Physical cosmology, Physics, Princeton University, Pycnocline, Q-ball, Quantum field theory, Raman scattering, Refractive index, Repeater, River Severn, Robin Bullough, Rogue wave, Self-phase modulation, Sine-Gordon equation, Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Skyrmion, Soliton (optics), Soliton distribution, Soliton model in neuroscience, Stokes drift, Telecommunication, Tidal bore, Topological defect, Topological quantum number, Union Canal (Scotland), Vector soliton, Wave, Wave packet, Wave tank, Wavelength, Wavelength-division multiplexing, Wess–Zumino–Witten model. Expand index (60 more) »

Amplitude

The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period).

New!!: Soliton and Amplitude · See more »

Analytic function

In mathematics, an analytic function is a function that is locally given by a convergent power series.

New!!: Soliton and Analytic function · See more »

Arcus cloud

An arcus cloud is a low, horizontal cloud formation, usually appearing as an accessory cloud to a cumulonimbus.

New!!: Soliton and Arcus cloud · See more »

AT&T Corporation

AT&T Corp., originally the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is the subsidiary of AT&T that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.

New!!: Soliton and AT&T Corporation · See more »

Bell Labs

Nokia Bell Labs (formerly named AT&T Bell Laboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories and Bell Labs) is an American research and scientific development company, owned by Finnish company Nokia.

New!!: Soliton and Bell Labs · See more »

Binary prefix

A binary prefix is a unit prefix for multiples of units in data processing, data transmission, and digital information, notably the bit and the byte, to indicate multiplication by a power of 2.

New!!: Soliton and Binary prefix · See more »

Born–Infeld model

In theoretical physics, the Born–Infeld model is a particular example of what is usually known as a nonlinear electrodynamics.

New!!: Soliton and Born–Infeld model · See more »

Boundary value problem

In mathematics, in the field of differential equations, a boundary value problem is a differential equation together with a set of additional constraints, called the boundary conditions.

New!!: Soliton and Boundary value problem · See more »

Breather

In physics, a breather is a nonlinear wave in which energy concentrates in a localized and oscillatory fashion.

New!!: Soliton and Breather · See more »

C. V. Raman

Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (7 November 188821 November 1970) was an Indian physicist born in the former Madras Province in India presently the state of Tamil Nadu, who carried out ground-breaking work in the field of light scattering, which earned him the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physics.

New!!: Soliton and C. V. Raman · See more »

Classical Heisenberg model

The Classical Heisenberg model is the n.

New!!: Soliton and Classical Heisenberg model · See more »

Cnoidal wave

In fluid dynamics, a cnoidal wave is a nonlinear and exact periodic wave solution of the Korteweg–de Vries equation.

New!!: Soliton and Cnoidal wave · See more »

Compacton

In the theory of integrable systems, a compacton, introduced in, is a soliton with compact support.

New!!: Soliton and Compacton · See more »

Cosmic string

Cosmic strings are hypothetical 1-dimensional topological defects which may have formed during a symmetry breaking phase transition in the early universe when the topology of the vacuum manifold associated to this symmetry breaking was not simply connected.

New!!: Soliton and Cosmic string · See more »

Crystal structure

In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of the ordered arrangement of atoms, ions or molecules in a crystalline material.

New!!: Soliton and Crystal structure · See more »

Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli FRS (8 February 1700 – 17 March 1782) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.

New!!: Soliton and Daniel Bernoulli · See more »

David Finkelstein

David Ritz Finkelstein (July 19, 1929 – January 24, 2016) was an emeritus professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

New!!: Soliton and David Finkelstein · See more »

Diederik Korteweg

Diederik Johannes Korteweg (31 March 1848 – 10 May 1941) was a Dutch mathematician.

New!!: Soliton and Diederik Korteweg · See more »

Dirac string

In physics, a Dirac string is a hypothetical one-dimensional curve in space, conceived of by the physicist Paul Dirac, stretching between two Dirac magnetic monopoles with opposite magnetic charges, or from one magnetic monopole out to infinity.

New!!: Soliton and Dirac string · See more »

Dislocation

In materials science, a dislocation or Taylor's dislocation is a crystallographic defect or irregularity within a crystal structure.

New!!: Soliton and Dislocation · See more »

Dispersion (optics)

In optics, dispersion is the phenomenon in which the phase velocity of a wave depends on its frequency.

New!!: Soliton and Dispersion (optics) · See more »

Dispersion relation

In physical sciences and electrical engineering, dispersion relations describe the effect of dispersion in a medium on the properties of a wave traveling within that medium.

New!!: Soliton and Dispersion relation · See more »

Domain wall (string theory)

In physics, a domain wall is any of several similar things in string theory, magnetism, or optics.

New!!: Soliton and Domain wall (string theory) · See more »

Electromagnetism

Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles.

New!!: Soliton and Electromagnetism · See more »

Erbium

Erbium is a chemical element with symbol Er and atomic number 68.

New!!: Soliton and Erbium · See more »

Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem

In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of ergodic behavior.

New!!: Soliton and Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem · See more »

Fiber laser

A fiber laser or fibre laser is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such as erbium, ytterbium, neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, thulium and holmium.

New!!: Soliton and Fiber laser · See more »

Finite difference

A finite difference is a mathematical expression of the form.

New!!: Soliton and Finite difference · See more »

Fluid dynamics

In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.

New!!: Soliton and Fluid dynamics · See more »

Fluid parcel

In fluid dynamics, within the framework of continuum mechanics, a fluid parcel is a very small amount of fluid, identifiable throughout its dynamic history while moving with the fluid flow.

New!!: Soliton and Fluid parcel · See more »

Fred Tappert

Frederick Drach Tappert (April 21, 1940 – January 9, 2002) was an American physicist whose primary contributions were in underwater acoustics.

New!!: Soliton and Fred Tappert · See more »

George Biddell Airy

Sir George Biddell Airy (27 July 18012 January 1892) was an English mathematician and astronomer, Astronomer Royal from 1835 to 1881.

New!!: Soliton and George Biddell Airy · See more »

Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

New!!: Soliton and Gulf of Carpentaria · See more »

Gustav de Vries

Gustav de Vries (22 January 1866 – 16 December 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg.

New!!: Soliton and Gustav de Vries · See more »

Homotopy

In topology, two continuous functions from one topological space to another are called homotopic (from Greek ὁμός homós "same, similar" and τόπος tópos "place") if one can be "continuously deformed" into the other, such a deformation being called a homotopy between the two functions.

New!!: Soliton and Homotopy · See more »

Homotopy group

In mathematics, homotopy groups are used in algebraic topology to classify topological spaces.

New!!: Soliton and Homotopy group · See more »

Integrable system

In the context of differential equations to integrate an equation means to solve it from initial conditions.

New!!: Soliton and Integrable system · See more »

Internal wave

Internal waves are gravity waves that oscillate within a fluid medium, rather than on its surface.

New!!: Soliton and Internal wave · See more »

Inverse scattering transform

In mathematics, the inverse scattering transform is a method for solving some non-linear partial differential equations.

New!!: Soliton and Inverse scattering transform · See more »

Inversion (meteorology)

In meteorology, an inversion is a deviation from the normal change of an atmospheric property with altitude.

New!!: Soliton and Inversion (meteorology) · See more »

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

New!!: Soliton and Isaac Newton · See more »

Ishimori equation

The Ishimori equation (IE) is a partial differential equation proposed by the Japanese mathematician.

New!!: Soliton and Ishimori equation · See more »

John Scott Russell

John Scott Russell FRSE FRS (9 May 1808, Parkhead, Glasgow – 8 June 1882, Ventnor, Isle of Wight) was a Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

New!!: Soliton and John Scott Russell · See more »

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.

New!!: Soliton and John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh · See more »

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq

Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (13 March 1842 – 19 February 1929) was a French mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat.

New!!: Soliton and Joseph Valentin Boussinesq · See more »

Kerr effect

The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro-optic (QEO) effect, is a change in the refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric field.

New!!: Soliton and Kerr effect · See more »

Korteweg–de Vries equation

In mathematics, the Korteweg–de Vries equation (KdV equation for short) is a mathematical model of waves on shallow water surfaces.

New!!: Soliton and Korteweg–de Vries equation · See more »

Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation

In physics, the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation, named for Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz and T. L. Gilbert, is a name used for a differential equation describing the precessional motion of magnetization in a solid.

New!!: Soliton and Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation · See more »

Lax pair

In mathematics, in the theory of integrable systems, a Lax pair is a pair of time-dependent matrices or operators that satisfy a corresponding differential equation, called the Lax equation.

New!!: Soliton and Lax pair · See more »

Light bullet

Light bullets are localized pulses of electromagnetic energy that can travel through a medium and retain their spatiotemporal shape in spite of diffraction and dispersion which tend to spread the pulse.

New!!: Soliton and Light bullet · See more »

Low-frequency collective motion in proteins and DNA

Low-frequency collective motion in proteins and DNA refers to the application of statistical thermodynamics to understand low-frequency vibrations in biomolecules.

New!!: Soliton and Low-frequency collective motion in proteins and DNA · See more »

Magnetic monopole

A magnetic monopole is a hypothetical elementary particle in particle physics that is an isolated magnet with only one magnetic pole (a north pole without a south pole or vice versa).

New!!: Soliton and Magnetic monopole · See more »

Magnetic skyrmion

In physics, magnetic skyrmions (occasionally described as 'vortices,' or 'vortex-like' configurations) are quasiparticles which have been predicted theoretically and observed experimentally in condensed matter systems.

New!!: Soliton and Magnetic skyrmion · See more »

Manakov system

Maxwell's Equations, when converted to cylindrical coordinates, and with the boundary conditions for an optical fiber while including birefringence as an effect taken into account, will yield the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations.

New!!: Soliton and Manakov system · See more »

Marine habitats

The marine environment supplies many kinds of habitats that support marine life.

New!!: Soliton and Marine habitats · See more »

Martin David Kruskal

Martin David Kruskal (September 28, 1925 – December 26, 2006) was an American mathematician and physicist.

New!!: Soliton and Martin David Kruskal · See more »

Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

New!!: Soliton and Mathematics · See more »

Modified Morlet wavelet

Modified Mexican hat, Modified Morlet and Dark soliton or Darklet wavelets are derived from hyperbolic (sech) (bright soliton) and hyperbolic tangent (tanh) (dark soliton) pulses.

New!!: Soliton and Modified Morlet wavelet · See more »

Momentum

In Newtonian mechanics, linear momentum, translational momentum, or simply momentum (pl. momenta) is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.

New!!: Soliton and Momentum · See more »

Morning Glory cloud

The Morning Glory cloud is a rare meteorological phenomenon consisting of a low-level atmospheric solitary wave and associated cloud, occasionally observed in different locations around the world.

New!!: Soliton and Morning Glory cloud · See more »

Nematicon

In optics, a nematicon is a spatial soliton in nematic liquid crystals (NLC).

New!!: Soliton and Nematicon · See more »

Neuron

A neuron, also known as a neurone (British spelling) and nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell that receives, processes, and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.

New!!: Soliton and Neuron · See more »

Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

New!!: Soliton and Neuroscience · See more »

Non-topological soliton

In quantum field theory, a non-topological soliton (NTS) is a field configuration possessing, contrary to a topological one, a conserved Noether charge and stable against transformation into usual particles of this field for the following reason.

New!!: Soliton and Non-topological soliton · See more »

Nonlinear optics

Nonlinear optics (NLO) is the branch of optics that describes the behavior of light in nonlinear media, that is, media in which the dielectric polarization P responds nonlinearly to the electric field E of the light.

New!!: Soliton and Nonlinear optics · See more »

Nonlinear Schrödinger equation

In theoretical physics, the (one-dimensional) nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) is a nonlinear variation of the Schrödinger equation.

New!!: Soliton and Nonlinear Schrödinger equation · See more »

Nonlinear system

In mathematics and science, a nonlinear system is a system in which the change of the output is not proportional to the change of the input.

New!!: Soliton and Nonlinear system · See more »

Norman Zabusky

Norman J. Zabusky was an American physicist, who is noted for the discovery of the soliton in the Korteweg–de Vries equation, in work completed with Martin Kruskal.

New!!: Soliton and Norman Zabusky · See more »

Optical fiber

An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.

New!!: Soliton and Optical fiber · See more »

Orange S.A.

Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation.

New!!: Soliton and Orange S.A. · See more »

Oscillon

In physics, an oscillon is a soliton-like phenomenon that occurs in granular and other dissipative media.

New!!: Soliton and Oscillon · See more »

Partial differential equation

In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is a differential equation that contains unknown multivariable functions and their partial derivatives.

New!!: Soliton and Partial differential equation · See more »

Pattern formation

The science of pattern formation deals with the visible, (statistically) orderly outcomes of self-organization and the common principles behind similar patterns in nature.

New!!: Soliton and Pattern formation · See more »

Peakon

In the theory of integrable systems, a peakon ("peaked soliton") is a soliton with discontinuous first derivative; the wave profile is shaped like the graph of the function e^.

New!!: Soliton and Peakon · See more »

Peregrine soliton

The Peregrine soliton (or Peregrine breather) is an analytic solution of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

New!!: Soliton and Peregrine soliton · See more »

Peter Lax

Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.

New!!: Soliton and Peter Lax · See more »

Phase (waves)

Phase is the position of a point in time (an instant) on a waveform cycle.

New!!: Soliton and Phase (waves) · See more »

Philosophical Magazine

The Philosophical Magazine is one of the oldest scientific journals published in English.

New!!: Soliton and Philosophical Magazine · See more »

Physical cosmology

Physical cosmology is the study of the largest-scale structures and dynamics of the Universe and is concerned with fundamental questions about its origin, structure, evolution, and ultimate fate.

New!!: Soliton and Physical cosmology · See more »

Physics

Physics (from knowledge of nature, from φύσις phýsis "nature") is the natural science that studies matterAt the start of The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman offers the atomic hypothesis as the single most prolific scientific concept: "If, in some cataclysm, all scientific knowledge were to be destroyed one sentence what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is that all things are made up of atoms – little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another..." and its motion and behavior through space and time and that studies the related entities of energy and force."Physical science is that department of knowledge which relates to the order of nature, or, in other words, to the regular succession of events." Physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, and its main goal is to understand how the universe behaves."Physics is one of the most fundamental of the sciences. Scientists of all disciplines use the ideas of physics, including chemists who study the structure of molecules, paleontologists who try to reconstruct how dinosaurs walked, and climatologists who study how human activities affect the atmosphere and oceans. Physics is also the foundation of all engineering and technology. No engineer could design a flat-screen TV, an interplanetary spacecraft, or even a better mousetrap without first understanding the basic laws of physics. (...) You will come to see physics as a towering achievement of the human intellect in its quest to understand our world and ourselves."Physics is an experimental science. Physicists observe the phenomena of nature and try to find patterns that relate these phenomena.""Physics is the study of your world and the world and universe around you." Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest. Over the last two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics were a part of natural philosophy, but during the scientific revolution in the 17th century, these natural sciences emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences and suggest new avenues of research in academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy. Advances in physics often enable advances in new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus.

New!!: Soliton and Physics · See more »

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

New!!: Soliton and Princeton University · See more »

Pycnocline

A pycnocline is the cline or layer where the density gradient is greatest within a body of water.

New!!: Soliton and Pycnocline · See more »

Q-ball

In theoretical physics, Q-ball is a type of non-topological soliton.

New!!: Soliton and Q-ball · See more »

Quantum field theory

In theoretical physics, quantum field theory (QFT) is the theoretical framework for constructing quantum mechanical models of subatomic particles in particle physics and quasiparticles in condensed matter physics.

New!!: Soliton and Quantum field theory · See more »

Raman scattering

Raman scattering or the Raman effect is the inelastic scattering of a photon by molecules which are excited to higher vibrational or rotational energy levels.

New!!: Soliton and Raman scattering · See more »

Refractive index

In optics, the refractive index or index of refraction of a material is a dimensionless number that describes how light propagates through that medium.

New!!: Soliton and Refractive index · See more »

Repeater

In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.

New!!: Soliton and Repeater · See more »

River Severn

The River Severn (Afon Hafren, Sabrina) is a river in the United Kingdom.

New!!: Soliton and River Severn · See more »

Robin Bullough

Robin K. Bullough (21 November 1929 – 30 August 2008) was a British mathematical physicist known for his contributions to the theory of solitons, in particular for his role in the development of the theory of the optical soliton, now commonly used, for example, in the theory of trans-oceanic optical fibre communication theory, but first recognised in Bullough's work on ultra-short (nano- and femto-second) optical pulses.

New!!: Soliton and Robin Bullough · See more »

Rogue wave

Rogue waves (also known as freak waves, monster waves, episodic waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves) are large, unexpected and suddenly appearing surface waves that can be extremely dangerous, even to large ships such as ocean liners.

New!!: Soliton and Rogue wave · See more »

Self-phase modulation

Self-phase modulation (SPM) is a nonlinear optical effect of light-matter interaction.

New!!: Soliton and Self-phase modulation · See more »

Sine-Gordon equation

The sine-Gordon equation is a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation in 1 + 1 dimensions involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function.

New!!: Soliton and Sine-Gordon equation · See more »

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet, (13 August 1819 – 1 February 1903), was an Irish physicist and mathematician.

New!!: Soliton and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet · See more »

Skyrmion

In particle theory, the skyrmion is a topologically stable field configuration of a certain class of non-linear sigma models.

New!!: Soliton and Skyrmion · See more »

Soliton (optics)

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 and linear effects in the medium.

New!!: Soliton and Soliton (optics) · See more »

Soliton distribution

A soliton distribution is a type of discrete probability distribution that arises in the theory of erasure correcting codes.

New!!: Soliton and Soliton distribution · See more »

Soliton model in neuroscience

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 theory of nerve pulse propagation.

New!!: Soliton and Soliton model in neuroscience · See more »

Stokes drift

For a pure wave motion in fluid dynamics, the Stokes drift velocity is the average velocity when following a specific fluid parcel as it travels with the fluid flow.

New!!: Soliton and Stokes drift · See more »

Telecommunication

Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.

New!!: Soliton and Telecommunication · See more »

Tidal bore

A tidal bore, often simply given as bore in context, is a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the river or bay's current.

New!!: Soliton and Tidal bore · See more »

Topological defect

In mathematics and physics, a topological soliton or a topological defect is a solution of a system of partial differential equations or of a quantum field theory homotopically distinct from the vacuum solution.

New!!: Soliton and Topological defect · See more »

Topological quantum number

In physics, a topological quantum number (also called topological charge) is any quantity, in a physical theory, that takes on only one of a discrete set of values, due to topological considerations.

New!!: Soliton and Topological quantum number · See more »

Union Canal (Scotland)

The Union Canal, full name the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal is a canal in Scotland, running from Falkirk to Edinburgh, constructed to bring minerals, especially coal, to the capital.

New!!: Soliton and Union Canal (Scotland) · See more »

Vector soliton

In physical optics or wave optics, a vector soliton is a solitary wave with multiple components coupled together that maintains its shape during propagation.

New!!: Soliton and Vector soliton · See more »

Wave

In physics, a wave is a disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space, with little or no associated mass transport.

New!!: Soliton and Wave · See more »

Wave packet

In physics, a wave packet (or wave train) is a short "burst" or "envelope" of localized wave action that travels as a unit.

New!!: Soliton and Wave packet · See more »

Wave tank

A wave tank is a laboratory setup for observing the behavior of surface waves.

New!!: Soliton and Wave tank · See more »

Wavelength

In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.

New!!: Soliton and Wavelength · See more »

Wavelength-division multiplexing

In fiber-optic communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is a technology which multiplexes a number of optical carrier signals onto a single optical fiber by using different wavelengths (i.e., colors) of laser light.

New!!: Soliton and Wavelength-division multiplexing · See more »

Wess–Zumino–Witten model

In theoretical physics and mathematics, a Wess–Zumino–Witten (WZW) model, also called a Wess–Zumino–Novikov–Witten model, is a type of two-dimensional conformal field theory named after Julius Wess, Bruno Zumino, Sergei Novikov and Edward Witten.

New!!: Soliton and Wess–Zumino–Witten model · See more »

Redirects here:

Bion (physics), Soliton theory, Soliton wave, Solitons.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »