Turing-driven spiral defect chaos with stationary spiral tips: universal criticality in a time-discrete oscillatory system
摘要
We report a breakthrough discovery of Turing-driven spiral defect chaos (SDC) governed by stationary nucleation sites in time-discrete oscillatory systems—a phenomenon defying classical instability paradigms. Unlike conventional SDC requiring spiral tip migration, this novel state features frozen spiral cores that trigger global chaos through random birth-death processes at fixed spatial coordinates while maintaining absolute immobility. Three universal critical behaviors emerge: (1) Spiral lifetimes follow scale-free power-law distributions with a fixed exponent (