Waves Called Solitons Concepts and Experiments
Written for an interdisciplinary readership of physicists, engineers, and chemists, this book is a practical guide to the fascinating world of solitons. These waves of large amplitude propagate over long distances without dispersing and therefore show one
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Michel Remoissenet
Waves Called Solitons Concepts and Experiments 3rd Revised and Enlarged Edition With 172 Figures
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Professor Dr, Michel Remoissenet Universire de Bourgogne Fac. des Seiences and Techniques Laboratoire de Physique 9, Avenue Alain Savary 21011 Dijon Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Catalog ing-in-Publication Data. Remoissenet, M., Waves called solitons: concepts and experiments 1 Michel Remoissenet. - j r d re. and enl. ed. p. cm. Includes biliographical references and index. ISBN 3-540-65919-6 1. Solitons . 1. Titel. QCI74.26. W28R46 1999 531'.1133-dc2l 99-23783 CIP
Third Edition 1999 Corrected Second Printing 2003 ISBN 978-3-642-08519-2 ISBN 978-3-662-03790-4 (eBook) DO I 10.1007/978-3-662-03790-4 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcast ing, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member ofBertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1993,1996,1999
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Preface to the Corrected Printing
The three years that have intervened since the appearance of the third edition of this book have witnessed some interesting developments in the field of solitonlike excitations. The present corrected and revised edition retains all the material of the third edition. There are five ne
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