title: Pattern formation via symmetry breaking in nonlinear weakly correlated systems.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Suzanne M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Sears
authors.forename: Marin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Soljacić
authors.forename: Demetrios N
authors.initials: DN
authors.lastname: Christodoulides
authors.forename: Mordechai
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Segev