soliton waves can travel long distances with little loss of energy or structure. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
It is very unusual, and it is called a soliton, or solitary wave. From Wordnik.com. [woman : planet :: love : monsters] Reference
In waves and optics parlance, a soliton is a single wave that retains its shape while traveling at a constant speed for significant distances. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Twistor correspondences for the soliton hierarchies. From Wordnik.com. [News From The Front, III] Reference
The study of minds, soliton-like or otherwise, is my particular passion. From Wordnik.com. [woman : planet :: love : monsters] Reference
A soliton, short for solitary wave, is “like an ocean wave that can travel long distances without breaking up,” Yip adds. From Wordnik.com. [MIT Researchers Close to Making Bionic Muscles | Impact Lab] Reference
The soliton in polyacetylene was born with the observation of an electron spin resonance (esr) signal in the pure material where there should not have been one. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Heeger - Autobiography] Reference
The suffix ˜- on™ is meant to call to mind the similar ending that is common in names of fundamental particles in physics, such as proton, neutron, soliton, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Tropes] Reference
These endpoints define 0-branes, and there are some ideas that the whole of M - theory can be reduced to sigma models or soliton field theories of these point-like particles. From Wordnik.com. [Science and Unobservable Things] Reference
The horizontal axis depicts the width of the soliton wavefronts. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A newly predicted "immortal" soliton (left) as compared to a conventional. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The immortal soliton on the left maintains its shape right up to the sound barrier. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
An approximate solution for describing a fundamental soliton in nonlocal nonlinear media. From Wordnik.com. [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference
Large energy soliton erbium-doped fiber laser with a graphene-polymer composite mode locker. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
"Large energy soliton erbium-doped fi ber laser with a graphene-polymer composite mode locker". From Wordnik.com. [Haddock Links] Reference
The vertical axis corresponds to the speed of the soliton as a fraction of the velocity of sound. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Improvements outline the way in which the soliton theory is applied to solve some engineering problems. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
• The soliton, as ultrastable wave train, is much like a quantum exhibiting a wave / particle duality. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"We solved some of the Einstein field equations describing head on soliton collisions at certain energies.". From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A Peregrine soliton is a special type of soliton that is very large and isolated compared to its surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The sort of spatial soliton that most people refer to involves a wave that compensates for its own diffraction. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Based on numerical simulations we interpret the dark pulse formation in the laser as a result of dark soliton shaping. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
The first observation of a soliton was documented in 1834: a large moving heap of water formed by a boat on a canal in Scotland. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
For those of you who haven't heard of solitons, let me introduce you to them and then explain why this is not a typical soliton. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
But sometimes its forward motion is sufficient that the wave will continually catch itself and can't break, resulting in a soliton. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
The scientists also found that waves that were more localized in space and time came together into a Peregrine soliton more easily. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
Indeed, what you put in is exactly what you get out, independent of the light intensity, making this very different from a normal soliton. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
To make an artificial Peregrine soliton happen, researchers took a nonlinear fiber optic channel and sent through light waves called "breathers.". From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
By timing the size and spacing of the breathers just right, researchers were able to get them to combine into a large, solitary wave-a Peregrine soliton. From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
He’s the guy with the nonlinear soliton stuff as I recall. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
He’s the guy with the nonlinear soliton stuff as I recall.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference
"immortal" soliton-never before seen in any other physical system. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
1+1-dimensional case the equations possess remarkable 'soliton' solutions and appear to constitute a new exactly integrable system. From Wordnik.com. [Next Big Future] Reference
You just invented a google soliton!. From Wordnik.com. [where we're going in this verdant spiral] Reference
"It's like a soliton," says Douarche. From Wordnik.com. [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference
"dark" soliton (right). From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
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