Experimental observation of dark solitons on the surface of water

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Chabchoub, A ^a,b   Kimmoun, O ^c   Branger, H ^d   Hoffmann, N ^a,b   Proment, D ^e   Onorato, M ^f,g   Akhmediev, N ^h  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Ecole Centrale Marseille   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^g SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^h AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE DROPS; CARRIER FREQUENCY; CARRIER WAVES; DARK SOLITONS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FINITE DEPTH; WIDTH OF THE SOLITONS;

WATER TANKS;

SOLITONS;

WATER;

CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84875432021     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.124101     Document Type: Article

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37. See Supplemental Material at http://link.aps.org/supplemental/10.1103/ PhysRevLett.110.124101 for the experimental demonstration of the generation of a black soliton in a wave flume. The video demonstrates clearly the decrease of the amplitude near zero point of the dark soliton profile.