Phys Rev Lett. 2000 Jun 19;84(25):5760-3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5760.
Physical review letters
A Picozzi, M Haelterman
PMID: 10991048 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5760
We investigate the influence of dispersion on parametric solitary waves. We show that dispersion is responsible for a transition towards a new type of dynamical solitary wave characterized by the presence of traveling phase defect arrays within their envelopes. The transition is described analytically through an original extension of the Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov approach to front propagation into unstable states.