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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011015
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- Australian Research Council (Discovery Project) [DP110102068]
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- ONR Grant [N000141010991]
- European Union under the project EXTREME SEAS [SCP8-GA-2009-234175]
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Super rogue waves with an amplitude of up to 5 times the background value are observed in a water-wave tank for the first time. Nonlinear focusing of the local wave amplitude occurs according to the higher-order breather solution of the nonlinear wave equation. The present result shows that rogue waves can also develop from very calm and apparently safe sea states. We expect the result to have a significant impact on studies of extreme ocean waves and to initiate related studies in other disciplines concerned with waves in nonlinear dispersive media, such as optics, plasma physics, and superfluidity.
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