Localized states in passive and active phase-field-crystal models

Abstract

The passive conserved Swift-Hohenberg equation (or phase-field-crystal [PFC] model) corresponds to a gradient dynamics for a single order parameter field related to density. It provides a simple microscopic description of the thermodynamic transition between liquid and crystalline states. In addition to spatially extended periodic structures, the model describes a large variety of steady spatially localized structures. In appropriate bifurcation diagrams the corresponding solution branches exhibit characteristic slanted homoclinic snaking. In an active PFC model, encoding for instance the active motion of self-propelled colloidal particles, the gradient dynamics structure is broken by a coupling between density and an additional polarization field. Then, resting and traveling localized states are found with transitions characterized by parity-breaking drift bifurcations. Here, we first briefly review the snaking behavior of localized states in passive and active PFC models before discussing the bifurcation behavior of localized states in systems of (i) two coupled passive PFC equations described by common gradient dynamics, (ii) two coupled passive PFC where the coupling breaks the gradient dynamics structure, and (iii) a passive PFC coupled to an active PFC.

submitted to the IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics' Special Issue on Homoclinic Snaking at 21, in memory of Patrick Woods

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