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Chimera states in a population of identical oscillators under planar cross-coupling

Chaotic Dynamics 2015-06-22 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

We report the existence of a chimera state in an assembly of identical nonlinear oscillators that are globally linked to each other in a simple planar cross-coupled form. The rotational symmetry breaking of the coupling term appears to be responsible for the emergence of these collective states that display a characteristic coexistence of coherent and incoherent behaviour. Our finding, seen in both a collection of van der Pol oscillators and chaotic Rossler oscillators, further simplifies the existence criterion for chimeras and thereby broadens the range of their applicability to real world situations.

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@article{arxiv.1409.0647,
  title  = {Chimera states in a population of identical oscillators under planar cross-coupling},
  author = {C. R. Hens and A. Mishra and P. K. Roy and A. Sen and S. K. Dana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.0647},
  year   = {2015}
}