2
$\begingroup$

I've seen over the years several mentions of electromagnetic solitons that appear in the high-intensity regime (where vacuum polarization becomes important). Some of these are coupled with plasmas, others in vacuum. Almost all I've known about, propagate with time-like group velocities. There is one that beats the diffraction limit of gaussian beams. I'm sure there are others with interesting properties as well.

What I haven't seen is any attempt to classify and categorize all these phenomena in some kind of taxonomy. Is any one aware of attempts toward this in the literature?

Improve this question
$\endgroup$
1
  • 1
    $\begingroup$ In plasma physics, there are several types of solitons (e.g., Langmuir and magnetosonic). The magnetosonic solitons have a few forms, but the one that has definitely been observed was originally called short large amplitude magnetic structures or SLAMS. In most cases that I have encountered, solitons come in two large groups: (1) solutions to KdV-like equations; and (2) solutions to nonlinear Schrödinger equations. $\endgroup$
    – honeste_vivere
    Commented Oct 25, 2014 at 15:16

0

Reset to default