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a r X i v : n l i n / 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 v 2 [ n l i n .P S ] 2 0 D e c 2 0 0 1 Frequency Locking in Spatially Extended Systems Hwa-Kyun Park? Department of Physics,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Taejon 305-701,Korea (25 April 2000) Abstract A variant of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is used to investi- gate the frequency locking phenomena in spatially extended systems. With appropriate parameter values, a variety of frequency-locked patterns including flats, π fronts, labyrinths and 2π/3 fronts emerge. We show that in spatially extended systems, frequency locking can be enhanced or suppressed by diffu- sive coupling. Novel patterns such as chaotically bursting domains and target patterns are also observed during the transition to locking. PACS numbers: 47.54.+r, 82.40.Ck, 82.20.Mj Typeset using REVTEX ?e-mail: childend@front.kaist.ac.kr TEL:+82-42-869-2563 FAX: +82-42-869-2510 1 Frequency locking of nonlinear oscillators is a well known phenomenon, and has been studied extensively [1,2]; however, frequency locking in spatially extended systems is not well understood. Recently, frequency locking has been observed experimentally in the light sensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction [3,4]. The system is oscillatory, and shows spiral patterns without external forcing. When periodically illuminated with light pulses, however, it exhibits frequency-locked patterns such as flats, π fronts, labyrinths and 2π/3 fronts, depending on the forcing frequency. It was also reported that these resonances have the structure similar to Arnol’d tongues [5]. For the theoretical investigation of frequency locking in spatially extended systems, we consider the forced complex Ginzburg-Landau equation [6–13] ?tψ = (1? iν)ψ + (?1 + ib)|ψ|2ψ + (1 + id)?2ψ + cψn?1, (1) where ψ(~r, t) is a complex order parameter, and ν, b, d, c are real. A theoretical study on the Eq. (1) showed that resonant forcing can exhibit rich patterns as varying the external frequency [6].