Spontaneous symmetry breaking shaping flowers and leaves
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Spontaneous symmetry breaking can result in emergence of complicated patterns in nature. Simple symmetry arguments can be used to describe beautiful and periodic rippled and wavy edges of flowers and leaves as well as fractal structure at the edge of a torn plastic sheet. In this paper, I will first discuss simple physical and geometrical arguments based on symmetry breaking and metrics on a curved surface that result in this pattern formation. Next, I will provide results of some theoretical and simulation studies of wrinkled pattern formation in plastic sheets and leaves.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008