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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 15: Nonlinear Dynamics, Synchronization and Chaos - Part I

DY 15.3: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 2. April 2014, 10:00–10:15, HÜL 186

Pattern formation in the synchronization dynamics of arrays of optomechanical oscillators — •Roland Lauter, Christian Brendel, Max Ludwig, Steven Habraken, and Florian Marquardt — Institut für Theoretische Physik II, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Staudtstraße 7 91058 Erlangen

We consider two-dimensional arrays of coupled optomechanical cells, each of which consists of a laser-driven optical cavity interacting with a mechanical (vibrational) mode. The mechanical modes can be driven in self-sustained oscillations. We study the collective classical non-linear dynamics of the phases of these oscillations, which is described by the well-studied Kuramoto model and optomechanical extensions thereof. The model parameters can be tuned by the laser drives. We focus on pattern formation and find that, depending on the parameters, the phases may or may not synchronize in a stationary configuration of vortex-antivortex pairs. We identify a relevant length scale and find hysteresis associated to the synchronization transition. For some model parameters, this length scale becomes comparable to the lattice spacing, in which case the phase configurations develop structure on smaller and smaller scales and eventually settle into random patterns. Besides, we address the stability and time evolution of binary patterns in which all oscillators are initialized to phases of 0 or pi.