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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 85, Issue 8, Pages 1650-1653Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1650
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We investigate the behavior of spiral waves in a quasi-two-dimensional spatial open reactor using Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction. The goal of this study is to answer two questions raised recently: Can a system sustain a stable long-wavelength modulated spiral? What causes the transition from spiral to defect-mediated turbulence? Our experimental results show that in a certain range of control parameters, a sustained long-wavelength modulated spiral is stable. The amplitude and the wavelength of modulations increase with the control parameter. As the latter is increased to across a threshold, defects are generated far away from the spiral center as a result of the neighboring two wave fronts being too close.
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