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One dimensional solitons behave like Newtonian particles if subjected to external forces, as has been shown by Fogel et al. for the case of sine-Gordon solitons. We add here the observation that they also emit free radiation—i.e. Bremsstrahlung—if accelerated by an external force. The radiation spectrum is calculated for the sine Gordon case.
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Fogel, M.B., Trullinger, S.E., Bishop, A.R., Krumhansl, J.A.: “Dynamics of Sine Gordon Solitons in the Presence of Perturbations” Report 2668, Materials Science Center, Cornell University, to be published. Several references on applications of solitons in solid state physics are given in this paper
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Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation, Grant DMR 74-23494 and in part by a travel grant from the KFA Jülich
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Eilenberger, G. Bremsstrahlung from solitons. Z Physik B 27, 199–203 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313609
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01313609