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Nonlinear Landau damping and growth have been observed for ion-acoustic waves. The measured nonlinear wave-wave coupling coefficients are in reasonable agreement with theory. The forced beat oscillations between the two injected waves, which cause non-linear Landau damping, were also observed.
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Ikezi et al. (1971) studied this question.
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