TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - Intermittent explosions of dissipative solitons and noise-induced crisis JO - Physical review E: Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics A1 - Cisternas, Jaime A1 - Descalzi, Orazio SP - 022903 EP - 022903 VL - 88 IS - 2 N2 - Dissipative solitons show a variety of behaviors not exhibited by their conservative counterparts. For instance, a dissipative soliton can remain localized for a long period of time without major profile changes, then grow and become broader for a short time-explode-and return to the original spatial profile afterward. Here we consider the dynamics of dissipative solitons and the onset of explosions in detail. By using the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau model and adjusting a single parameter, we show how the appearance of explosions has the general signatures of intermittency: the periods of time between explosions are irregular even in the absence of noise, but their mean value is related to the distance to criticality by a power law. We conjecture that these explosions are a manifestation of attractor-merging crises, as the continuum of localized solitons induced by translation symmetry becomes connected by short-lived trajectories, forming a delocalized attractor. As additive noise is added, the extended system shows the same scaling found by low-dimensional systems exhibiting crises [J. Sommerer, E. Ott, and C. Grebogi, Phys. Rev. A 43, 1754 (1991)], thus supporting the validity of the proposed picture.
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LA - en SN - 1539-3755 UR - http://dx.doi.org/ ID - ref1 ER -