Abstract
Partial annihilation of two counterpropagating dissipative solitons, with only one pulse surviving the collision, has been widely observed in different experimental contexts, over a large range of parameters, from hydrodynamics to chemical reactions. However, a generic picture accounting for partial annihilation is missing. Based on our results for coupled complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equations as well as for the FitzHugh-Nagumo equation we conjecture that noise induces partial annihilation of colliding dissipative solitons in many systems.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 188302 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue number | 18 |
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| State | Published - 6 May 2009 |