Solitary waves — solitons — occur in a wide range of physical systems with a broad array of attributes and applications. Carefully engineered light–matter interactions have now produced an optomechanical dissipative soliton with promising properties.
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Pasquazi, A. Optomechanics joins the soliton club. Nat. Phys. 17, 1285–1286 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01448-0
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