Spatiotemporal patterns emerging from a spatially localized time-delayed feedback scheme.

Abstract

In attempts to manage spatiotemporal transient chaos in spatially extended systems, these systems are often subjected to protocols that perturb them as a whole and stabilize globally a new dynamic regime, as, for example, a uniform steady state. In this work we show that selectively perturbing only part of a system can generate space-time patterns that are not observed when controlling the whole system. Depending on the protocol used, these new patterns can emerge either in the perturbed or the unperturbed region. Specifically, we use a spatially localized time-delayed feedback scheme on the one-dimensional Gray-Scott reaction-diffusion system in the transient chaotic regime and demonstrate, through the numerical integration of the resulting kinetic equations, the stabilization of spatially localized space-time patterns that can be perfectly periodic. The mechanism underlying the observed pattern generation is related to diffusion across the interfaces separating the perturbed and unperturbed regions.