Topological defects of wave patterns
- 24 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (8), 884-887
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.884
Abstract
We identify the defects of waves by means of topological arguments and study them in the framework of Landau-type analysis. It is shown that they correspond to sinks, sources, or dislocations of traveling waves, and to dislocations of standing waves.Keywords
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