2010/09/29 by H. Susanto, P. C. Matthews · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.PS
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.83.035201
4 pages, 3 figures, submitted
arxiv created 2010/09/29 · arxiv updated 2015/05/20
We investigate the snaking of localised patterns, seen in numerous physical applications, using a variational approximation. This method naturally introduces the exponentially small terms responsible for the snaking structure, that are not accessible via standard multiple-scales asymptotic techniques. We obtain the symmetric snaking solutions and the asymmetric 'ladder' states, and also predict the stability of the localised states. The resulting approximate formulas for the width of the snaking region show good agreement with numerical results.