Soliton

A stable isolated (i.e., solitary) traveling nonlinear wave solution to a set of equations that obeys a superposition-like principle (i.e., solitons passing through one another emerge unmodified). Solitons were named by Zabusky and Kruskal (1965), and first appeared in the solution of the Korteweg-de Vries equation.

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