Superluminal propagation of solitary kinklike waves in amplifying media

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Janowicz, MacIej ^a   Mostowski, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC THEORY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; WAVEFRONTS;

AMPLIFYING MEDIA; KINKLIKE STRUCTURES; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33646354888     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.046613     Document Type: Article

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