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We present an exemplary system of three identical oscillators in a ring interacting repulsively to show up chimera patterns. The dynamics of individual oscillators is governed by the superconducting Josephson junction. Surprisingly, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-08 Suman Saha , Syamal Kumar Dana

We investigate an array of identical phase oscillators non-locally coupled without time delay, and find that chimera state with two coherent clusters exists which is only reported in delay-coupled systems previously. Moreover, we find that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yun Zhu , Yuting Li , Mei Zhang , Junzhong Yang

The question under which conditions oscillators with slightly different frequencies synchronize appears in various settings. We show that synchronization can be achieved even for harmonic oscillators that are bilinearly coupled via a purely…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Juan N. Moreno , Christopher W. Wächtler , Alexander Eisfeld

It is widely held that identical systems tend to behave similarly under comparable conditions. Yet, for systems that interact through a network, symmetry breaking can lead to scenarios in which this expectation does not hold. Prominent…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-09-24 Jorge Luis Ocampo-Espindola , Christian Bick , Adilson E. Motter , István Z. Kiss

Self-organized criticality is a well-established phenomenon, where a system dynamically tunes its structure to operate on the verge of a phase transition. Here, we show that the dynamics inside the self-organized critical state are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-19 Silja Sormunen , Thilo Gross , Jari Saramäki

Chimera is a rich and fascinating class of self-organized solutions developed in high dimensional networks having non-local and symmetry breaking coupling features. Its accurate understanding is expected to bring important insight in many…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-03 Laurent Larger , Bogdan Penkovsky , Yuri Maistrenko

Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns in which domains of synchronous and asynchronous dynamics coexist in coupled systems of oscillators. We examine how the character of the individual elements influences chimera states by…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-09-02 Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Philipp Hoevel , Julien Siebert , Eckehard Schoell

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 consider the effect of the emergence of chimera states in a system of coexisting stationary and flying-through in potential particles with an internal degree of freedom determined by the phase. All particles tend to an equilibrium state…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-09 Maxim I. Bolotov , Lev A. Smirnov , Vyacheslav O. Munyaev , Grigory V. Osipov

This Letter investigates the nature of synchronization in multilayered and multiplexed populations in which the interlayer interactions are randomly pinned. First, we show that a multilayer network constructed by setting up all-to-all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-04-20 Ajay Deep Kachhvah , Sarika Jalan

The behaviors of coupled oscillators, each of which has periodic motion with random natural frequency in the absence of coupling, are investigated. Some novel collective phenomena are revealed. At the onset of instability of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhigang Zheng , Gang Hu , Bambi Hu

We study the stable spatiotemporal patterns that arise in a 3D network of neuron oscillators, whose dynamics is described by the Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) model. More specifically, we investigate the form of the chimera states induced…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-30 T. Kasimatis , J. Hizanidis , A. Provata

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

We report the emergence of peculiar chimera states in networks of identical pendula with global phase-lagged coupling. The states reported include both rotating and quiescent modes, i.e. with non-zero and zero average frequencies. This kind…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-09 P. Ebrahimzadeh , M. Schiek , Y. Maistrenko

Interaction within an ensemble of coupled nonlinear oscillators induces a variety of collective behaviors. One of the most fascinating is a chimera state which manifests the coexistence of spatially distinct populations of coherent and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-18 Nikita Frolov , Vladimir Maksimenko , Soumen Majhi , Sarbendu Rakshit , Dibakar Ghosh , Alexander Hramov

Chimera states are a captivating occurrence in which a system composed of multiple interconnected elements exhibits a distinctive combination of synchronized and desynchronized behavior. The emergence of these states can be attributed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-27 Mahbub Rahaman , Akitada Sakurai , Analabha Roy

We show that chimera patterns can be induced by noise in nonlocally coupled neural networks in the excitable regime. In contrast to classical chimeras, occurring in noise-free oscillatory networks, they have features of two phenomena:…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-11 Anna Zakharova , Nadezhda Semenova , Vadim Anishchenko , Eckehard Schöll

Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of coherent and incoherent dynamics. We study chimera states in a network of non-locally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators. We investigate the impact of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-04-05 Peter Kalle , Jakub Sawicki , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll

Symmetries are well known to have had a profound role in our understanding of nature and are a critical design concept for the realization of advanced technologies. In fact, many symmetry-broken states associated with different phases of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 A. Sakurai , V. M. Bastidas , W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

When we look at the world around us, we see complex physical systems and emergent phenomena. Emergence occurs when a system is observed to have properties that its parts do not have on their own. These properties or behaviors emerge only…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-26 Nir Lahav