We study two-dimensional localized patterns in weakly dissipative systems that are driven parametrically. As a generic model for many different physical situations we use a generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation that contains parametric forcing, damping, and spatial coupling. The latter allows for the existence of localized pattern states, where a finite-amplitude uniform state coexists with an inhomogeneous one. In particular, we study numerically two-dimensional patterns. Increasing the driving forces, first the localized pattern dynamics is regular, becomes chaotic for stronger driving, and finally extends in area to cover almost the whole system. In parallel, the spatial structure of the localized states becomes more and more irregular, ending up as a full spatiotemporal chaotic structure.

We report the results of a systematic investigation of localized dynamical states in the model of a one-dimensional magnetic wire, which is based on the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert (LLG) equation. The dissipative term in the LLG equation is compensated by the parametric drive imposed by the external AC magnetic field, which is uniformly applied perpendicular to the rectilinear wire. The existence and stability of the localized states is studied in the plane of the relevant control parameters, namely, the amplitude of the driving term and the detuning of its frequency from the parametric resonance. With the help of systematically performed simulations of the LLG equation, the existence and stability areas are identified in the parameter plane for several species of the localized states: stationary single- and two-soliton modes, single and double breathers, drifting double breathers with spontaneously broken inner symmetry, and multisoliton complexes. Multistability occurs in this system. The breathers emit radiation waves (which explains their drift caused by the spontaneous symmetry breaking, as it breaks the balance between the recoil from the waves emitted to left and right), while the multisoliton complexes exhibit cycles of periodic transitions between three-, five-, and seven-soliton configurations. Dynamical characteristics of the localized states are systematically calculated too. These include, in particular, the average velocity of the asymmetric drifting modes, and the largest Lyapunov exponent, whose negative and positive values imply that the intrinsic dynamics of the respective modes is regular or chaotic, respectively.