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Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States
Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 240 – Published 9 August, 1965
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Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective
2008 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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Landmarks—Computer Simulations Led to Discovery of Solitons
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The 1965 discovery of the isolated waves known as solitons—which appear in many physical systems—was a direct result of the new computer technology available for numerical simulations.
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