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Solitons in semiconductor microstructures with a two-dimensional electron gas

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Nonlinear waves in a two-dimensional electronic plasma with metal screening gates are investigated. It is shown that solitons described by the KdV equation exist in such a system.

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 70, No. 7, 479–481 (10 October 1999)

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Govorov, A.O., Kovalev, V.M. & Chaplik, A.V. Solitons in semiconductor microstructures with a two-dimensional electron gas. Jetp Lett. 70, 488–490 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.568201

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