Is ball lightning a relativistic soliton?

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Nature Photonics Pub Date : 2026-06-05 DOI:10.1038/s41566-026-01914-2

Sergei Bulanov

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Abstract

Ball lightning is not fully understood. It has been proposed that a stable lump of electromagnetic energy, known as a soliton, could be responsible, but such structures are usually microscopic. Now, high-power laser experiments have produced millimetre-scale relativistic solitons, indicating that they could indeed explain the phenomenon.

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球状闪电是相对论性孤子吗？

球状闪电还没有被完全理解。有人提出，一种被称为孤子的稳定的电磁能量团可能是罪魁祸首，但这种结构通常是微观的。现在，高功率激光实验已经产生了毫米尺度的相对论孤子，表明它们确实可以解释这种现象。

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Nature Photonics 物理-光学

CiteScore

54.20

自引率

1.70%

发文量

158

审稿时长

12 months

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