Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States

1965/08/09 by Norman J. Zabusky, Martin D. Kruskal · 16 citations
Engineering · #Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows

paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.15.240

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Abstract

This article appears in the following collection:Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective2008 marked PRL's 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that have made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.

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