Hi, I've been thinking about soloid or solitary waves alot lately, and I was wondering

 

has anyone successfully built a soloid generator that used plasma as its medium?

 

I looked into the topic but only found demonstrations in a water tank or in a tank

 

of metal balls. I would seem logical to me that such a wave could be generated

 

in a plasma, what do you think?

You mean such waves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soliton ?

It needs a nonlinear medium, so how does your plasma behave?

well suppse you had a long tube that was under a vacuume, with electrodes at each end. When you apply a

 

AC voltage between the ends if it was high enough voltage you would get a plasma between the electrodes

 

so I was wondering if there would be a way to induce a solitary wave in that beam of plasma, it would

 

probably look like a ball of plasma brighter then the rest that travels from one end to the other.