Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns

ISBN-13: 9783642422720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 286 str.

Orazio Descalzi;Marcel Clerc;Stefania Residori

Opis

Systems driven far from thermodynamic equilibrium can create dissipative structures through the spontaneous breaking of symmetries. A particularly fascinating feature of these pattern-forming systems is their tendency to produce spatially confined states. These localized wave packets can exist as propagating entities through space and/or time. Various examples of such systems will be dealt with in this book, including localized states in fluids, chemical reactions on surfaces, neural networks, optical systems, granular systems, population models, and Bose-Einstein condensates.This book should appeal to all physicists, mathematicians and electrical engineers interested in localization in far-from-equilibrium systems. The authors - all recognized experts in their fields - strive to achieve a balance between theoretical and experimental considerations thereby giving an overview of fascinating physical principles, their manifestations in diverse systems, and the novel technical applications on the horizon.

Spis treści

 Solitons, Self-confined Light and Optical Turbulence. Ligt Self-trapping in Nematic Liquid Crystals;  M.A. Karpierz and G. Assanto.- Photonic Plasma Instabilities and Soliton Turbulence in Spatially Incoherent Light; D.V. Dylov and J.W. Fleischer.- Gap-Acoustic Solitons: Slowing and Stopping of Light; R.S.Tasgal et al.- Optical Wave Turbulence and Wave Condensation in a Nonlinear Optical Experiment; J. Laurie et al.- Localized Structures in Pattern Forming Systems. Localized Structures in the Liquid Crystal Light Valve Experiment; U. Bortolozzo et al.- Convectons; A. Alonso et al.- Morphological Characterization of Localized Hexagonal Pattern; D.E. Dixon.- Localized Structures for Optical Applications. Cavity Solitons in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers and their Applications; M. Giudici et al.- Cavity Soliton Laser Based on Coupled Micro-Resonators; P. Genevet et al.- Cavity Soliton Laser based on a VCSEL with saturable Absorber; G. Tissoni et al.- Dynamic Control of Localized Structures in a Nonlinear Feedback Experiment; M. Ayoub et al.- Excitability and Localized States.  Interaction of Oscillatory and Excitable Localized States in a Nonlinear Optical Cavity; D. Gomila et al.- Lurching Waves in Thalamic Neuronal Networks; J.E. Cisternas et al.- Index

O autorze

Prof. Orazio Descalzi has edited in the last years the following books: Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures VII & VIII (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004)- Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures IX (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics (Elsevier, 2005)- Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics and Nonlinear Physics (American Institute of Physics, 2007