MATLAB: FINDING EQUILIBRIUM POINTS FOR NONLINEAR SYSTEM

I have this system dx1=(x1(u+(x1^2+x2^2)-(x1^2+x2^2)^2)-x2 dx2=x2(u+(x1^2+x2^2)-(x1^2+x2^2)^2)-x1,
I want to find the equilibrium points for this system in matlab

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I assume equilibrium occurs when dx1 and dx2 are equal to zero. You don't need matlab here. This one is easy to solve by hand. Multiply the first equation by x2 and the second by x1, then subtract them. You get
 x1^2 = x2^2
which gives two possibilities, either x1 = x2 or x1 = -x2.
Case 1: x1 = x2
Substitute x1 for x2 in the first equation to get:
 4*x1^5-2*x1^3-(u-1)*x1 = 0
The five roots of this are easy to solve for explicitly. Either x1 = 0 or we can solve the quadratic equation in x1^2
 4*(x1^2)^2-2*(x1^2)-(u-1) = 0
which gives
 x1^2 = (1+/-sqrt(4*u-3))/4
 x1 = +/-sqrt((1+/-sqrt(4*u-3))/4)
These are the five possible roots for the case x1 = x2.
Case 2: x1 = -x2
This is very similar to the solution in case 1.
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