Modulated amplitude waves and defect formation in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

The transition from phase chaos to defect chaos in the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE) is related to saddle-node bifurcations of modulated amplitude waves (MAWs). First, the spatial period P of MAWs is shown to be limited by a maximum P_SN which depends on the CGLE coefficients; MAW-like structures with period larger than P_SN evolve to defects. Second, slowly evolving near-MAWs with average phase gradients ν≈0 and various periods occur naturally in phase chaotic states of the CGLE. As a measure for these periods, we study the distributions of spacings p between neighbouring peaks of the phase gradient. A systematic comparison of p and P_SN as a function of coefficients of the CGLE shows that defects are generated at locations where p becomes larger than P_SN. In other words, MAWs with period P_SN represent “critical nuclei” for the formation of defects in phase chaos and may trigger the transition to defect chaos. Since rare events where p becomes sufficiently large to lead to defect formation may only occur after a long transient, the coefficients where the transition to defect chaos seems to occur depend on system size and integration time. We conjecture that in the regime where the maximum period P_SN has diverged, phase chaos persists in the thermodynamic limit.     

Renormalized phase dynamics in oscillatory media

Based on the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE), a new mapping model of oscillatory media is proposed. The present dynamics is fully determined by an effective phase field renormalized by amplitude. The model exhibits phase turbulence, amplitude turbulence, and a frozen state reported in the CGLE. In addition, we find a state in which the phase and amplitude have spiral structures with opposite rotational directions. This state is found to be observed also in the CGLE. Thus, one concludes that the behaviors observed in the CGLE can be described by only the phase dynamics appropriately constructed.     

Defect chaos of oscillating hexagons in rotating convection

Using coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations, the dynamics of hexagonal patterns with broken chiral symmetry are investigated, as they appear in rotating non-Boussinesq or surface-tension-driven convection. We find that close to the secondary Hopf bifurcation to oscillating hexagons the dynamics are well described by a single complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) coupled to the phases of the hexagonal pattern. At the band center these equations reduce to the usual CGLE and the system exhibits defect chaos. Away from the band center a transition to a frozen vortex state is found.     

Amplitude wave in one-dimensional complex Ginzburgben Landau equation

The wave propagation in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) is studied by considering a wave source at the system boundary. A special propagation region, which is an island-shaped zone surrounded by the defect turbulence in the system parameter space, is observed in our numerical experiment. The wave signal spreads in the whole space with a novel amplitude wave pattern in the area. The relevant factors of the pattern formation, such as the wave speed, the maximum propagating distance and the oscillatory frequency, are studied in detail. The stability and the generality of the region are testified by adopting various initial conditions. This finding of the amplitude pattern extends the wave propagation region in the parameter space and presents a new signal transmission mode, and is therefore expected to be of much importance.     

Vortex glass and vortex liquid in oscillatory media

We study the disordered, multispiral solutions of two-dimensional oscillatory media for parameter values at which the single-spiral/vortex solution is fully stable. Using the complex Ginzburg-Landau (CGLE) equation, we show that these states, heretofore believed to be static, actually evolve extremely slowly. This is achieved via a reduction of the CGLE to the evolution of the sole vortex coordinates. This true defect-mediated turbulence occurs in two distinct phases, a vortex liquid characterized by normal diffusion of spirals, and a slowly relaxing, intermittent, "vortex glass."     

Drive Control of Spiral Wave and Turbulence by a Target Wave in CGLE

Suppression of spiral wave and turbulence in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) plays a prominent role in nonlinear science and complex dynamical system. In this paper, the nonlinear behavior of the proposed drive-response system, which consists of two coupled CGLEs, is investigated and controlled by a state error feedback controller with the lattice Boltzmann method. First, spiral wave and turbulence are, respectively, generated by selecting appropriate parameters of the response system under the no-flux boundary and perpendicular gradient initial conditions. Then, based on the random initial condition, the target wave yielded by introducing spatially localized inhomogeneity into the drive system is applied on the above response system. The numerical simulation results show that the spiral wave and turbulence existing in the response system could be successfully eliminated by the target wave in the drive system during a short evolution time. Furthermore, it turns out that the transient time for the drive course is related to the control intensity imposed on the whole media.     

Complex Ginzburg-Landau equation for nonlinear travelling waves in extrinsic semiconductors

We study the nonlinear state of a travelling-wave instability occurring close to the onset of impact ionization in extrinsic semiconductors. Our investigations are based on a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE). For a simple generation-recombination function including impact ionization and thermal recombination of the charge carriers, we find a supercritical bifurcation of stable travelling waves for most parameter values. The results are compared with a numerical solution of the basic equations of motion. Furthermore, we expect that weak turbulence phenomena should be observed in semiconductors if their specific generation-recombination kinetics leads to a CGLE with appropriate coefficients.     

Modulated amplitude waves and the transition from phase to defect chaos

The mechanism for transitions from phase to defect chaos in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) is presented. We describe periodic coherent structures of the CGLE, called modulated amplitude waves (MAWs). MAWs of various periods P occur in phase chaotic states. A bifurcation study of the MAWs reveals that for sufficiently large period, pairs of MAWs cease to exist via a saddle-node bifurcation. For periods beyond this bifurcation, incoherent near-MAW structures evolve towards defects. This leads to our main result: the transition from phase to defect chaos takes place when the periods of MAWs in phase chaos are driven beyond their saddle-node bifurcation.     

Dynamics of Modulated Wave Trains in a Discrete Nonlinear-dispersive Dissipative Bi-inductance Transmission Line

In this paper nonlinear-dispersive dissipative RLC transmission line is considered and envelope modulation is reduced to the modified cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) with derivatives in cubic terms. This CGLE obtained contains two free (from the line parameters) parameters, the nonlinear cubic gain and the linear gain. Modulational instability for the modified cubic-quintic CGLE is analyzed and leads to the generalized Lange and Newell criterion. We reformulate the derived CGLE as a third-order ordinary system in standard form with the first derivatives on the left-hand side in order to study the coherent structures.     

Control of complex Ginzburg-Landau equation eruptions using intrapulse Raman scattering and corresponding traveling solutions

The eruption solitons that exist under the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) may be eliminated by the introduction of a term that in the optical context represents intrapulse Raman scattering (IRS). The later was observed in direct numerical simulations, and here we have obtained the system of ordinary differential equations and the corresponding traveling solitons that replace the eruption solutions. In fact, we have found traveling solutions for a subset of the eruption CGLE parameter region and a wide range of the IRS parameter. However, for each set of CGLE parameters they are stable solely above a certain threshold of IRS.     

Inward propagating chemical waves in a single-phase reaction-diffusion system

We report our experimental and theoretical studies of inwardly propagating chemical waves (antiwaves) in a single-phase reaction-diffusion (RD) system. The experiment was conducted in an open spatial reactor using chlorite-iodide-malonic acid reaction. When the system was set to near Hopf bifurcation point, antiwaves appeared spontaneously, as predicted using both the reaction-diffusion (RD) equation and the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE). Antiwaves change to ordinary waves when the system was moved away from the Hopf onset, which still agreed with RD simulations but could not be predicted by CGLE. We thus witnessed a new type of antiwave-wave exchange. Our analysis showed that this exchange occurred when the CGLE broke down as the system was far from the Hopf onset.     

耦合复金兹堡-朗道(Ginzburg-Landau)方程中的模螺旋波

以双层耦合复金兹堡-朗道(Ginzburg-Landau)方程系统为时空模型, 研究了其中的模螺旋波, 讨论了这种特殊波动现象的稳定条件和相关影响因素. 模螺旋波与该类时空系统中常见的相螺旋波相比, 其中心不存在缺陷点, 同时仅在其变量的振幅部分(而非相位部分) 表现为螺旋结构. 本文通过数值方法研究了耦合复金兹堡-朗道方程中产生模螺旋波所需要的初始和参数条件.研究表明, 当双层耦合系统的初始斑图之间的差距较大时, 才能够产生模螺旋波; 同时观察到系统在参数不匹配的条件下会发生相螺旋波向模螺旋波的转变.通过对同步函数的计算, 发现该转变过程具有非连续性.     

Stability of dark soliton solutions of the quintic complex Ginzburg--Landau equation inthe case of normal dispersion

Dark soliton solutions of the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg--Landau equation (CGLE) are analysed for the case of normal group-velocity dispersion. The CGLE can be transformed to the nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation (NLSE) with perturbation terms under some practical conditions. The main properties of dark solitons are analysed by applying the direct perturbation theory of the NLSE. The results obtained may be helpful for the research on the optical soliton transmission system.     

Stable Soliton Propagation in a System with Spectral Filtering and Nonlinear Gain

Stable soliton propagation in a system with linear and nonlinear gain and spectral filtering is investigated. Different types of exact analytical solutions of the cubic and the quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) are reviewed. The conditions to achieve stable soliton propagation are analyzed within the domain of validity of soliton perturbation theory. We derive an analytical expression defining the region in the parameter space where stable pulselike solutions exist, which agrees with the numerical results obtained by other authors. An analytical expression for the soliton amplitude corresponding to the quintic CGLE is also obtained. We show that the minimum value of this amplitude depends only on the ratio between the linear gain and the quintic gain saturating term.     

Bifurcations from stationary to pulsating solitons in the cubic–quintic complex Ginzburg–Landau equation

Stationary to pulsating soliton bifurcation analysis of the complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE) is presented. The analysis is based on a reduction from an infinite-dimensional dynamical dissipative system to a finite-dimensional model. Stationary solitons, with constant amplitude and width, are associated with fixed points in the model. For the first time, pulsating solitons are shown to be stable limit cycles in the finite-dimensional dynamical system. The boundaries between the two types of solutions are obtained approximately from the reduced model. These boundaries are reasonably close to those predicted by direct numerical simulations of the CGLE.     

Stable Soliton Propagation in a System with Spectral Filtering and Nonlinear Gain

Stable soliton propagation in a system with linear and nonlinear gain and spectral filtering is investigated. Different types of exact analytical solutions of the cubic and the quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) are reviewed. The conditions to achieve stable soliton propagation are analyzed within the domain of validity of soliton perturbation theory. We derive an analytical expression defining the region in the parameter space where stable pulselike solutions exist, which agrees with the numerical results obtained by other authors. An analytical expression for the soliton amplitude corresponding to the quintic CGLE is also obtained. We show that the minimum value of this amplitude depends only on the ratio between the linear gain and the quintic gain saturating term.     

Impact of higher-order effects on pulsating, erupting and creeping solitons

We investigate numerically the dynamics of pulsating, erupting and creeping soliton solutions of a generalized complex Ginzburg–Landau equation (CGLE), including the third-order dispersion, intrapulse Raman scattering and self-steepening effects. We show that these higher-order effects (HOEs) can have a dramatic impact on the dynamics of the above mentioned CGLE solitons. For some ranges of the parameter values, the periodic behavior of some of these pulses is eliminated and they are transformed into fixed-shape solitons. Some particular interesting cases are discussed concerning the combined action of the three HOEs.     

Stability of traveling pulses of cubic-quintic complex Ginzburg-Landau equation including intrapulse Raman scattering

The complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation (CGLE) admits a special type of solutions called eruption solitons. Recently, the eruptions were shown to diminish or even disappear if a term of intrapulse Raman scattering (IRS) is added, in which case, self-similar traveling pulses exist. We perform a linear stability analysis of these pulses that shows that the unstable double eigenvalues of the erupting solutions split up under the effect of IRS and, following a different trajectory, they move on to the stable half-plane. The eigenfunctions characteristics explain some eruptions features. Nevertheless, for some CGLE parameters, the IRS cannot cancel the eruptions, since pulses do not propagate for the required IRS strength.