Dynamics of spiral waves driven by a rotating electric field

• We found rotation-synchronization between a spiral and a rotating electric field.
• The influence of chirality, and polarized modes of the rotating electric field on synchronization is studied.
• The phase diagram describing the controllable region in excitability-period plane is presented.

We study the behavior of spiral wave under the driving of a rotating electric field. The rotating electric field can drive a spiral wave to be synchronous, depending on four factors: its frequency and amplitude, chirality, and polarized modes. Rotation-synchronization characterized by the rotating direction is focused on. We discuss the behavior of synchronization, such as the dependence of angle-differences between the spiral tip and the electric field on ratio of frequency, the influences of different polarized modes of the electric field, the radius of synchronous spiral wave, and so on. A circularly polarized electric fields (CPEF) can suppress meandering spiral to rigid one and prevent breakup of spiral in medium with low excitability. The phase diagram describing the controllable region in excitability-period plane is presented. The influences of polarized modes of electric field on minimum excitability of medium are also studied.