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Mingzhong Wu1, Boris A Kalinikos, Lincoln D Carr
1Department of Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, USA.
Abstract:
The manifestation of fractals in soliton dynamics has been observed for the first time. The experiment utilized self-generated spin-wave envelope solitons in a magnetic film based active feedback ring. At high ring gain, the soliton that circulates in the ring breathes in a fractal pattern. The corresponding power frequency spectrum shows a comb structure, with each peak in the comb having its own comb, and so on, to finer and finer scales.
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