Defect-mediated snaking: a new growth mechanism for localized structures (Q602700)

The authors study spatially localized structures occurring in the forced complex Ginzburg-Landau equation. For the 1:1 and 2:1 resonance, they identify a new mechanism for the growth of these structures called defect-mediated snaking in which the states grow by the fission of the cell in the center of the structure, followed by outward displacement of all existing cells. This growth mechanism is different from the homoclinic snaking observed in the Swift-Hohenberg equation in which the structures grow by nucleating new cells at the location of the bounding fronts. The authors leave some open questions including the determination of the Eckhaus stability boundary for localized structures and the prediction of the speed of the fronts.