Taming spatiotemporal chaos with disorder

The use of disorder as a means to control spatiotemporal chaos in coupled arrays of forced, damped, nonlinear oscillators is examined. In the numerical experiments, one- and two-dimensional arrays of identical oscillators behave chaotically, but the introduction of slight, uncorrelated differences b...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 1995-11, Vol.378 (6556), p.465-467
Hauptverfasser:	Braiman, Y, Lindner, John F, Ditto, William L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Chaos theory Exact sciences and technology Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and brownian motion Noise Nonlinear dynamics and nonlinear dynamical systems Physics Statistical physics, thermodynamics, and nonlinear dynamical systems
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Zusammenfassung:	The use of disorder as a means to control spatiotemporal chaos in coupled arrays of forced, damped, nonlinear oscillators is examined. In the numerical experiments, one- and two-dimensional arrays of identical oscillators behave chaotically, but the introduction of slight, uncorrelated differences between the oscillators induces ordered motion characterized by complex but regular spatiotemporal patterns.
ISSN:	0028-0836 1476-4687
DOI:	10.1038/378465a0