The Turing Instability as an Example of Non Equilibrium Symmetry Breaking
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The Turing instability has now been established as a canonical mechanism of stationary pattern formation both theoretically as well as experimentally. In this brief article the basic theory of this instability will be sketched, with special emphasis on the characteristics it has in common with symmetry breaking in equilibrium systems. A very brief introduction to some experimental and numerical results will also be given.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005