Optical solitons and wave-particle duality.

@article{Jisha2011OpticalSA,
  title={Optical solitons and wave-particle duality.},
  author={Chandroth Pannian Jisha and Alessandro Alberucci and Ray-Kuang Lee and Gaetano Assanto},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2011},
  volume={36 10},
  pages={
          1848-50
        }
}
We investigate the propagation of optical solitons interacting with linear defects in the medium. We show that solitons exhibit a wave-particle dualism versus power, i.e., depending on the relative size of soliton and defect, responsible for a soliton trajectory dependent on its waist. 
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