The concept of soliton was created by Norman Zabusky and Martin Kruskal in 1965 to refer to localized solutions of a particular class of models – the so-called integrable nonlinear equations. Such solutions are remarkable because they interact elastically and regain their forms after colliding with each other. Afterward, the soliton theory has been applied to numerous practical and fundamental problems in areas as diverse as hydrodynamics, plasma, nonlinear optics, molecular biology, field theory, and astrophysics. In the area of optics, integrable conventional solitons result from the single balance between nonlinearity and dispersion or diffraction.
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