Mechanism of standing wave patterns in cardiac muscle |
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Authors: | Takagi Seiji Pumir Alain Kramer Lorenz Krinsky Valentin |
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Affiliation: | Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, 1361 route des Lucioles, F-06560, Valbonne, France. |
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Abstract: | Recent experiments [R. A. Gray, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 168104 (2001)]] have revealed striking standing wave patterns in cardiac muscle. In excitable media, such as cardiac tissue where colliding waves annihilate, standing wave patterns result from a fully nonlinear mechanism. We present a possible physical mechanism explaining these patterns. The phenomenon does not depend on the precise excitable model chosen. Analogies are drawn with weak links in superconductors, and phase-slip solutions in the Ginzburg-Landau equations. |
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