Experimental observation of soliton Newton’s cradle. (IMAGE)

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Experimental observation of soliton Newton’s cradle.

Caption

At moment t1, soliton A moves close to the soliton molecule consisted of soliton B and C; at moment t2, soliton A elastically collides with the soliton molecule: soliton A exchanges both the energy and momentum with soliton C through soliton B. After collision, soliton A together with soliton B form a new soliton molecule and soliton C leaves the new soliton molecule at the original speed of soliton A.

Credit

by Mingming Nie, Bowen Li, Kunpeng Jia, Yijun Xie, Jingjie Yan, Shining Zhu, Zhenda Xie, and Shu-Wei Huang

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