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Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics

Two-level atoms and solitons

С. В. Сазонов

Published Dec 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

Integrable equations that produce a wide range of various solitons arising from interactions between two-level atoms with optical pulses are briefly reviewed.
DOI
10.3103/s1062873813120101

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