We analyze shallow water wind waves in Currituck Sound, North Carolina and experimentally confirm, for the first time, the presence of soliton turbulence in ocean waves. Soliton turbulence is an exotic form of nonlinear wave motion where low frequency energy may also be viewed as a dense soliton gas, described theoretically by the soliton limit of the Korteweg-deVries equation, a completely int...

[1] We propose a solitary wave model for small scale magnetic structures observed in the solar wind and more recently in the Voyager 1 observations of the heliosheath. The model is based on the recent, fully nonlinear theory of solitary waves by McKenzie et al. (2001, 2004). Our solutions i.e., magnetic holes, humps, trains of holes and humps, are strongly nonlinear (70 to 80% change in the mag...

Considering the effects of hot ions and Lorentz force, a numerical study on the properties of solitary kinetic Alfvén waves ~SKAWs! in the inertial limit region in the magnetosphere is presented. In contrast to the results obtained by Hasegawa and Mima @Phys. Rev. Lett. 37, 690 ~1976!#, Shukla et al. @J. Plasma Phys. 28, 125 ~1982!#, and Wu et al. @Phys. Plasmas 3, 2879 ~1996!#, both hump and d...

Necessary conditions are discussed for the possible generation of large solitary acoustic modes in plasmas with one or more ion species which are hotter than some or all of the electron species. The analysis is based on a fluid dynamic approach. It is found that in most of these configurations the existence ranges for the solitary wave velocities are very narrow and close to one of the thermal ...

A geometrical optics method for solving wave propagation in dispersive weakly nonlinear, weakly inhomogeneous media is applied to plasmas. In the case that the dispersion is comparable to the nonlinearity, the method yields the expected soliton solutions. For strong dispersion, it is found that the amplitude has the same form as in the linear case except that it is multiplied by a slow varying ...

In a typical solitonic distribution, the soliton density is distributed over the entire moleculeand the present work shows how its density can be decomposed into solitonic and antisolitoniccomponents. It is found that there exists a unique electron as soliton over the anionicnanoconductor, while there are many other solitons and antisolitons. The solitonic states are furtherdecomposed to the ca...

In this paper, we numerically simulated a glass-based all-optical 1×N power splitter with eleven different configurations using soliton breakup in a nonlinear medium. It is shown that in addition to reconfigurability of the proposed splitter, its power splitting ratio is tunable up to some extent values too. Nonlinear semivectorial iterative finite difference beam propagation method (IFD-...

Our high time resolution observations of individual giant pulses in the Crab pulsar show that both the time and frequency signatures of the interpulse are distinctly different from those of the main pulse. Giant main pulses can occasionally be resolved into shortlived, relatively narrow-band nanoshots. We believe these nanoshots are produced by soliton collapse in strong plasma turbulence. Gian...