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The Complex Ginzburg Landau equation (CGLe) Mostly a Tutorial 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Introduction 0D: The Hopf bifurcation (textbooks!

) Spatially extended systems, predominantly qc (standard!) General discussion: wave number band (phase waves) etc. Solutions in 1D: coherent structures (localised states, fronts,

Retracting Fronts, phase chaos and defect chaos) 6. Solutions in 2D (and maybe 3D) vortices and spirals, chaos

What would Landau have said? Pathological ?

The Hopf Bifurcation.

Poincare considered the problem too trivial to write down. Andronov & Leontovich did it in the plane ( ~1938). Hopf generalized it to many dergrees of freedom (1942).

In the plane:

u Ha-ha-ha! v v

Re (A)

Actually a structure for

c 0

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