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The nonlinear propagation of picosecond acoustic pulses at an arbitrary angle to an external magnetic field is studied in an elastically isotropic paramagnetic crystal at low temperatures. Various soliton-like propagation modes arising due to spin-phonon interaction and acoustic anharmonicity are revealed, and the stability of these modes with respect to transverse perturbations is analyzed. In the case of defocusing cubic nonlinearity, the crystal can support the propagation of compression pulses, which undergo defocusing, and rarefaction pulses can propagate in the self-channeling mode. In the case of focusing cubic nonlinearity, only compression pulses can propagate if the conditions of stability with respect to self-focusing are satisfied.
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Original Russian Text © A.N. Bugaĭ, S.V. Sazonov, 2007, published in Fizika Tverdogo Tela, 2007, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 113–120.
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Bugaĭ, A.N., Sazonov, S.V. Soliton-like propagation modes of picosecond acoustic pulses in a paramagnetic crystal. Phys. Solid State 49, 118–125 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063783407010209
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