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1Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing 100048, China and State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
Experimental evidence of the use of a circularly polarized electric field to control the spiral turbulence in a reaction-diffusion system is presented. The spiral turbulence obtained in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction is shown to be forced into ordered stable spiral waves or "targetlike" waves by a circularly polarized electric field with appropriate frequency and intensity. An Arnold's-tongue-shaped control phase diagram is obtained, illustrating the resonance essence of the control.
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