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The Josephson fluxon mechanics

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Integrable Systems and Applications

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We present recent results concerning sine-Gordon kink soliton dynamics, and emphasize their physical meaning in the frame of the physics of long Josephson junctions.

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Reinisch, G., Fernandez, J.C. (1989). The Josephson fluxon mechanics. In: Balabane, M., Lochak, P., Sulem, C. (eds) Integrable Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 342. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0035674

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