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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Towards a quasi-periodic mean field theory for globally coupled oscillators

We show how a quasi-periodic mean field theory may be used to understand the chaotic dynamics and geometry of globally coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations. The Poincaré map of the mean field equations appears to have saddlenode-homoclinic bifurcations leading to chaotic motion, and the attractor has the characteristic ρ shape identified by numerical experiments on the full equations.     

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.     

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."     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Nonequilibrium dynamics of ultracold Fermi superfluids

The aim of this mini review is to survey the literature on the study of nonequilibrium dynamics of Fermi superfluids in the BCS and BEC limits, both in the single channel and dual channel cases. The focus is on mean field approaches to the dynamics, with specific attention drawn to the dynamics of the Ginzburg-Landau order parameters of the Fermi and composite Bose fields, as well as on the microscopic dynamics of the quantum degrees of freedom. The two approaches are valid approximations in two different time scales of the ensuing dynamics. The system is presumed to evolve during and/or after a quantum quench in the parameter space. The quench can either be an impulse quench with virtually instantaneous variation, or a periodic variation between two values. The literature for the order parameter dynamics, described by the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations, is reviewed, and the works of the author in this area highlighted. The mixed phase regime in the dual channel case is also considered, and the dual order parameter dynamics of Fermi-Bose mixtures reviewed. Finally, the nonequilibrium dynamics of the microscopic degrees of freedom for the superfluid is reviewed for the self-consistent and non self-consistent cases. The dynamics of the former can be described by the Bogoliubov de-Gennes equations with the equilibrium BCS gap equation continued in time and self -consistently coupled to the BdG dynamics. The latter is a reduced BCS problem and can be mapped onto the dynamics of Ising and Kitaev models. This article reviews the dynamics of both impulse quenches in the Feshbach detuning, as well as periodic quenches in the chemical potential, and highlights the author’s contributions in this area of research.     

Synchronization in nonidentical complex Ginzburg-Landau equations

A cross-correlation coefficient of complex fields has been investigated for diagnosing spatiotemporal synchronization behavior of coupled complex fields. We have also generalized the subsystem synchronization way established in low-dimensional systems to one- and two-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equations. By applying the indicator to examine the synchronization behavior of coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations, it is shown that our subsystem approach may be of better synchronization performance than the linear feedback method. For the linear feedback Ginzburg-Landau equation, the nonidentical system exhibits generalized synchronization characteristics in both amplitude and phase. However, the nonidentical subsystem may exhibit complete-like synchronization properties. The difference between complex fields for driven and response systems gives a linear scaling with the change of their parameter difference.     

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.     

Spontaneous emission in coupled microcavity-waveguide structures at the band edge

We examine spontaneous emission and photon dynamics in a microcavity coupled to a coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) in a photonic crystal. We present an efficient tight-binding approach to obtain the Green tensor in large, arbitrary systems of coupled microcavities. We use this approach to examine spontaneous emission when the microcavity is strongly coupled to the CROW at the band center and band edge. We confirm the validity of weak-coupling theories for microcavities resonant at band center and obtain strong peak splitting in the previously inaccessible case of band-edge coupled structures.     

Anisotropy of the upper critical field in MgB2: the two-gap Ginzburg-Landau theory

The upper critical field in MgB2 is investigated in the framework of the two-gap Ginzburg-Landau theory. A variational solution of linearized Ginzburg-Landau equations agrees well with the Landau level expansion and demonstrates that spatial distributions of the gap functions are different in the two bands and change with temperature. The temperature variation of the ratio of two gaps is responsible for the upward temperature dependence of in-plane Hc2 as well as for the deviation of its out-of-plane behavior from the standard angular dependence. The hexagonal in-plane modulations of Hc2 can change sign with decreasing temperature.     

Generalized Ginzburg-Landau equations, slaving principle and center manifold theorem

The Generalized Ginzburg-Landau equations, introduced by one of us (H.H.), are considered in a simplified version to clarify their relation to the center manifold theorem.