Patterns and collective behavior in granular media: Theoretical concepts

IS Aranson, LS Tsimring - Reviews of modern physics, 2006 - APS
Granular materials are ubiquitous in our daily lives. While they have been the subject of
intensive engineering research for centuries, in the last two decades granular matter has …

Dissipative solitons

HG Purwins, HU Bödeker, S Amiranashvili - Advances in Physics, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The present review summarizes experimental and theoretical work dealing with self-
organized solitary localized structures (LSs) that are observed in spatially extended …

Dynamics of one-dimensional Kerr cavity solitons

F Leo, L Gelens, P Emplit, M Haelterman, S Coen - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We present an experimental observation of an oscillating Kerr cavity soliton, ie, a time-
periodic oscillating one-dimensional temporally localized structure excited in a driven …

Localized states in the generalized Swift-Hohenberg equation

J Burke, E Knobloch - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2006 - APS
The Swift-Hohenberg equation with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities exhibits a remarkable
wealth of stable spatially localized states. The presence of these states is related to a …

Homoclinic snaking: structure and stability

J Burke, E Knobloch - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2007 - pubs.aip.org
The bistable Swift-Hohenberg equation exhibits multiple stable and unstable spatially
localized states of arbitrary length in the vicinity of the Maxwell point between spatially …

Spatial localization in dissipative systems

E Knobloch - conmatphys, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Spatial localization is a common feature of physical systems, occurring in both conservative
and dissipative systems. This article reviews the theoretical foundations of our …

Snakes and ladders: localized states in the Swift–Hohenberg equation

J Burke, E Knobloch - Physics Letters A, 2007 - Elsevier
The Swift–Hohenberg equation with cubic and quintic nonlinearities exhibits multiple stable
and unstable spatially localized states of arbitrary length in the vicinity of the Maxwell point …

Spatially localized structures in dissipative systems: open problems

E Knobloch - Nonlinearity, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Stationary spatially localized structures, sometimes called dissipative solitons, arise in many
interesting and important applications, including buckling of slender structures under …

Two-dimensional solitons on the surface of magnetic fluids

R Richter, IV Barashenkov - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
We report an observation of a stable solitonlike structure on the surface of a ferrofluid,
generated by a local perturbation in the hysteretic regime of the Rosensweig instability …

Dust ion-acoustic shocks and holes

PK Shukla - Physics of Plasmas, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
Properties of dust ion-acoustic (DIA) shocks and DIA holes are examined, assuming that a
dusty plasma contains immobile charged dust grains, warm electrons, and warm ions. A …