Modeling light bullets with the two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 135, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 345-368

  Xin, J X ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Light bullets; Maxwell Bloch system; Sine Gordon equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346688073     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00128-1     Document Type: Article

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