Physical Review Letters · 1990 · 109 citations · 7 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsMathematical PhysicsOpticsTheoretical PhysicsBifurcation TheoryLaser OpticsLaser PhysicsNonlinear OpticsSymmetry BreakingBifurcationNonlinear Laser DynamicsQualitative ModelsQualitative Theory Of Differential EquationsSpontaneous Symmetry BreakingSymmetry-breaking Bifurcations
We show that a qualitative theory of bifurcations can provide an understanding of the spontaneous symmetry breaking and the appearance of traveling waves leading to spatiotemporal complexity in the transverse patterns of the intensity of a ${\mathrm{CO}}_{2}$ laser.
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