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Highly symmetric networks can exhibit partly symmetry-broken states, including clusters and chimera states, i.e., states of coexisting synchronized and unsynchronized elements. We address the $\mathbb{S}_4$ permutation symmetry of four…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-23 Sindre W. Haugland , Katharina Krischer

A prominent type of collective dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators is the coexistence of coherently and incoherently oscillating domains, known as chimera states. Chimera states exhibit various macroscopic dynamics with different…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-17 Seungjae Lee , Katharina Krischer

Synchronization is an essential collective phenomenon in networks of interacting oscillators. Twisted states are rotating wave solutions in ring networks where the oscillator phases wrap around the circle in a linear fashion. Here, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Oleh E. Omel'chenko

Chimera states have been a vibrant subject of research in the recent past, but the analytical treatment of transitions from chimeras to coherent states remains a challenge. Here we analytically derive the necessary conditions for this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-07 Sarbendu Rakshit , Zahra Faghani , Fatemeh Parastesh , Shirin Panahi , Sajad Jafari , Dibakar Ghosh , Matjaz Perc

Chimera states are complex spatiotemporal patterns in networks of identical oscillators, characterized by the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized dynamics. Here we propose to extend the phenomenon of chimera states to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 V. M. Bastidas , I. Omelchenko , A. Zakharova , E. Schöll , T. Brandes

Chimera states are synchronization patterns in which coherent and incoherent regions coexist in systems of identical oscillators. This elusive phenomenon has attracted significant interest and has been widely analyzed, revealing several…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-24 Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo , Timoteo Carletti , Hiroya Nakao , Riccardo Muolo

We report the emergence of a collective dynamical state, namely phase-flip chimera, from an en- semble of identical nonlinear oscillators that are coupled indirectly via the dynamical variables from a common environment, which in turn are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-03 V. K. Chandrasekar , R. Gopal , D. V. Senthilkumar , M. Lakshmanan

Networks of coupled phase oscillators are one of the most studied dynamical systems with numerous applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Their behaviour is often characterized by the emergence of various partially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-27 Oleh E. Omel'chenko

We have developed a simple cellular automata model for nonlinearly coupled phase oscillators which can exhibit many important collective dynamical states found in other synchronizing systems. The state of our system is specified by a set of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-29 Amitava Banerjee , Muktish Acharyya

In 1967 Winfree proposed a mean-field model for the spontaneous synchronization of chorusing crickets, flashing fireflies, circadian pacemaker cells, or other large populations of biological oscillators. Here we give the first bifurcation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. T. Ariaratnam , S. H. Strogatz

Two symmetrically coupled populations of N oscillators with inertia $m$ display chaotic solutions with broken symmetry similar to experimental observations with mechanical pendula. In particular, we report the first evidence of intermittent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-14 Simona Olmi , Erik A. Martens , Shashi Thutupalli , Alessandro Torcini

We study the existence of chimera states in pulse-coupled networks of bursting Hindmarsh-Rose neurons with nonlocal, global and local (nearest neighbor) couplings. Through a linear stability analysis, we discuss the behavior of stability…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-17 Bidesh K. Bera , Dibakar Ghosh , M. Lakshmanan

Chimera states, i.e., dynamical states composed of coexisting synchronous and asynchronous oscillations, have been reported to exist in diverse topologies of oscillators in simulations and experiments. Two-population networks with distinct…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-24 Seungjae Lee , Katharina Krischer

We investigate the transition from synchronized to chimera states in a ring of non-locally coupled phase oscillators. Our focus is on the intermediate defect states, where solitary waves in the phase gradient profile travel at a constant…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-12 Tianjing Zhou , Nariya Uchida

We have identified the existence of globally clustered chimera states in delay coupled oscillator populations and find that these states can breathe periodically, aperiodically and become unstable depending upon the value of coupling delay.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Jane H. Sheeba , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Lakshmanan

We discuss the breakdown of spatial coherence in networks of coupled oscillators with nonlocal interaction. By systematically analyzing the dependence of the spatio-temporal dynamics on the range and strength of coupling, we uncover a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Iryna Omelchenko , Yuri Maistrenko , Philipp Hövel , Eckehard Schöll

The coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains, namely the appearance of chimera states, is being studied extensively in many contexts of science and technology since the past decade, though the previous studies are mostly built on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-05 Srilena Kundu , Bidesh K. Bera , Dibakar Ghosh , M. Lakshmanan

We establish the existence of chimera states, simultaneously supporting synchronous and asynchronous dynamics, in a network consisting of two symmetrically linked star subnetworks consisting of identical oscillators with shear and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jaap Eldering , Jeroen S. W. Lamb , Tiago Pereira , Edmilson Roque dos Santos

We find chimera states with respect to amplitude dynamics in a network of Stuart-Landau oscillators. These partially coherent and partially incoherent spatio-temporal patterns appear due to the interplay of nonlocal network topology and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-02 Anna Zakharova , Marie Kapeller , Eckehard Schöll

Here we study the emergence of chimera states, a recently reported phenomenon referring to the coexistence of synchronized and unsynchronized dynamical units, in a population of Morris-Lecar neurons which are coupled by both electrical and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-03-05 Ali Calim , Joaquin J. Torres , Mahmut Ozer , Muhammet Uzuntarla