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Interaction of "Solitons" in a Collisionless Plasma and the Recurrence of Initial States

N. J. Zabusky and M. D. Kruskal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 15, 240 – Published 9 August 1965
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  • Received 3 May 1965

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.15.240

©1965 American Physical Society

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Letters from the Past - A PRL Retrospective

2008 marked PRL’s 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations a collection of milestone Letters was started. The collection contains Letters that have made long-lived contributions to physics, either by announcing significant discoveries, or by initiating new areas of research.

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Landmarks—Computer Simulations Led to Discovery of Solitons

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The 1965 discovery of the isolated waves known as solitons—which appear in many physical systems—was a direct result of the new computer technology available for numerical simulations.

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N. J. Zabusky

  • Bell Telephone Laboratories, Whippany, New Jersey

M. D. Kruskal

  • Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey

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Vol. 15, Iss. 6 — 9 August 1965

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