Pattern formation outside of equilibrium

MC Cross, PC Hohenberg - Reviews of modern physics, 1993 - APS
A comprehensive review of spatiotemporal pattern formation in systems driven away from
equilibrium is presented, with emphasis on comparisons between theory and quantitative …

Localized structures in dissipative media: from optics to plant ecology

M Tlidi, K Staliunas, K Panajotov… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Localized structures (LSs) in dissipative media appear in various fields of natural science
such as biology, chemistry, plant ecology, optics and laser physics. The proposal for this …

Minimal continuum theories of structure formation in dense active fluids

J Dunkel, S Heidenreich, M Bär… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-sustained dynamical phases of living matter can exhibit remarkable similarities over a
wide range of scales, from mesoscopic vortex structures in microbial suspensions and …

Emergence of disordered branching patterns in confined chiral nematic liquid crystals

S Echeverría-Alar, MG Clerc… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Spatial branching processes are ubiquitous in nature, yet the mechanisms that drive their
growth may vary significantly from one system to another. In soft matter physics, chiral …

Time-reversal and parity-time symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian field theories

T Suchanek, K Kroy, SAM Loos - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We study time-reversal symmetry breaking in non-Hermitian fluctuating field theories with
conserved dynamics, comprising the mesoscopic descriptions of a wide range of …

Deconvolution of reacting-flow dynamics using proper orthogonal and dynamic mode decompositions

S Roy, JC Hua, W Barnhill, GH Gunaratne, JR Gord - Physical review E, 2015 - APS
Analytical and computational studies of reacting flows are extremely challenging due in part
to nonlinearities of the underlying system of equations and long-range coupling mediated by …

Strong interaction between plants induces circular barren patches: fairy circles

C Fernandez-Oto, M Tlidi… - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fairy circles consist of isolated or randomly distributed circular areas devoid of any
vegetation. They are observed in vast territories in southern Angola, Namibia and South …

Localized vegetation patterns, fairy circles, and localized patches in arid landscapes

D Escaff, C Fernandez-Oto, MG Clerc, M Tlidi - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We investigate the formation of localized structures with varying widths in one-and two-
dimensional systems. The mechanism of stabilization is attributed to strongly nonlocal …

Two-dimensional localized states in an active phase-field-crystal model

L Ophaus, E Knobloch, SV Gurevich, U Thiele - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
The active phase-field-crystal (active PFC) model provides a simple microscopic mean field
description of crystallization in active systems. It combines the PFC model (or conserved …

Spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking induces inverse energy cascade in 3D active fluids

J Słomka, J Dunkel - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Classical turbulence theory assumes that energy transport in a 3D turbulent flow proceeds
through a Richardson cascade whereby larger vortices successively decay into smaller …