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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

Nonlocally coupled oscillators with a phase lag self-organize into various patterns such as global synchronization, the twisted state, and the chimera state. In this paper, we consider nonlocally coupled oscillators that move on a ring by…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-11-17 Bojun Li , Nariya Uchida

The instability of mixing in the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is the key to understanding a range of spatiotemporal patterns, which feature prominently in collective dynamics of systems ranging from neuronal networks, to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-23 Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

We study oscillatory and oscillation suppressed phases in coupled counter-rotating nonlinear oscillators. We demonstrate the existence of limit cycle, amplitude death, and oscillation death, and also clarify the Hopf, pitchfork, and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jung-Wan Ryu , Woo-Sik Son , Dong-Uk Hwang

We report on a new type of chimera state that attracts almost all initial conditions and exhibits power-law switching behavior in networks of coupled oscillators. Such switching chimeras consist of two symmetric configurations, which we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-28 Yuanzhao Zhang , Zachary G. Nicolaou , Joseph D. Hart , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

The dynamics of two active nonlinear resonators coupled to a linear resonator is studied theoretically. Possible stationary states and its dynamical stability are considered in detail. The spontaneous symmetry breaking is found and it is…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 D. Dolinina , A. Yulin

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

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

We propose a one-dimensional nonlinear system of coupled anharmonic oscillators that dynamically undergoes a topological transition switching from the {disordered} and topologically trivial phase into the nontrivial one due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Roman S. Savelev , Maxim A. Gorlach , Alexander N. Poddubny

We investigate the synchronization behavior and the emergence of chimera states in a system of two interacting populations of maps possessing chaotic neural-like dynamics. We characterize four collective states on the space of coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-31 V. J. Márquez-Rodríguez , K. Tucci , M. G. Cosenza

The effects of nonlocal and reflecting connectivity are investigated in coupled Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) elements, which assimilate the exchange of electrical signals between neurons. Earlier investigations have demonstrated that…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-08-02 N. D. Tsigkri-DeSmedt , J. Hizanidis , E. Schoell , P. Hoevel , A. Provata

Study of collective phenomenon in populations of coupled oscillators are a subject of intense exploration in physical, biological, neuronal and social systems. Here we propose a scheme for the creation of chimera states, namely the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-08 Anjuman Ara Khatun , Haider Hasan Jafri

The phenomenon of the chimera state symbolizes the coexistence of coherent and incoherent sections of a given population. This phenomenon identified in several physical and biological systems presents several variants, including the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-30 Gaël R. Simo , Thierry Njougouo , R. P. Aristides , Patrick Louodop , Robert Tchitnga , Hilda A. Cerdeira

Chimera states are among the most intriguing phenomena in nonlinear dynamics, characterized by the coexistence of coherent and incoherent behavior in systems of coupled identical oscillators. Many methods have been proposed to detect…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-12 Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo , Riccardo Muolo , Thierry Njougouo , Timoteo Carletti

We study the interplay between network topology and complex space-time patterns and introduce a concept to analytically predict complex patterns in networks of Stuart-Landau oscillators with linear symmetric and instantaneous coupling based…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-02-19 Winnie Poel , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll

Chimera states are characterized by the symmetry-breaking coexistence of synchronized and incoherent groups of oscillators in certain chains of identical oscillators. We report on the direct experimental observation of states reminiscent of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-03-14 L. Q. English , A. Zampetaki , P. G. Kevrekidis , K. Skowronski , C. B. Fritz , Saidou Abdoulkary

We present an approach to generate chimera dynamics (localized frequency synchrony) in oscillator networks with two populations of (at least) two elements using a general method based on delayed interactions with linear and quadratic terms.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-10-25 Christian Bick , Michael Sebek , István Z. Kiss

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 propose a control scheme which can stabilize and fix the position of chimera states in small networks. Chimeras consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics in systems of nonlocally coupled identical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-23 Iryna Omelchenko , Oleh E. Omel'chenko , Anna Zakharova , Matthias Wolfrum , Eckehard Schoell

Kuramoto and Battogtokh [Nonlinear Phenom. Complex Syst. 5, 380 (2002)] discovered chimera states represented by stable coexisting synchrony and asynchrony domains in a lattice of coupled oscillators. After reformulation in terms of local…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-01 L. A. Smirnov , G. V. Osipov , A. Pikovsky