Pattern formation via symmetry breaking in nonlinear weakly correlated systems.
We study pattern formation initiated by modulation instability in nonlinear partially coherent wave fronts and show that anisotropic noise and/or anisotropic correlation statistics can lead to ordered patterns.
Sears
Suzanne M
SM
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Soljacić
Marin
M
Christodoulides
Demetrios N
DN
Segev
Mordechai
M