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Understanding and controlling the mechanisms behind synchronization phenomena is of paramount importance in nonlinear science. In particular, the emergence of chimera states, patterns in which order and disorder coexist simultaneously,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Hiroya Nakao , Mattia Frasca

We investigate "chimera" states in a ring of identical phase oscillators coupled in a time-delayed and spatially non-local fashion. We find novel "clustered chimera" states that have spatially distributed phase coherence separated by…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Gautam C. Sethia , Abhijit Sen , Fatihcan M. Atay

A "chimera state" is a dynamical pattern that occurs in a network of coupled identical oscillators when the symmetry of the oscillator population is broken into synchronous and asynchronous parts. We report the experimental observation of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-17 Joseph D. Hart , Kanika Bansal , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

A system of symmetrically coupled identical oscillators with phase lag is presented, which is capable of generating a large repertoire of transient (metastable) "chimera" states in which synchronisation and desynchronisation co-exist. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Murray Shanahan

We present a control scheme that is able to find and stabilize an unstable chaotic regime in a system with a large number of interacting particles. This allows us to track a high dimensional chaotic attractor through a bifurcation where it…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-06-30 Jan Sieber , Oleh Omel'chenko , Matthias Wolfrum

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

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fascinating manifestation of self-organization that nature employs to orchestrate essential processes of life, such as the beating of the heart. Although it was long thought that synchrony or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-07-29 Erik Andreas Martens , Shashi Thutupalli , Antoine Fourrière , Oskar Hallatschek

Chimera state is defined as a mixed type of collective state in which synchronized and desynchronized subpopulations of a network of coupled oscillators coexist and the appearance of such anomalous behavior has strong connection to diverse…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Srilena Kundu , Soumen Majhi , Bidesh K. Bera , Dibakar Ghosh , M. Lakshmanan

Synchronization of weakly-coupled non-linear oscillators is a ubiquitous phenomenon that has been observed across the natural sciences. We study the dynamics of optomechanical arrays - networks of mechanically compliant structures that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Karl Pelka , Vittorio Peano , André Xuereb

The control of complex systems and network-coupled dynamical systems is a topic of vital theoretical importance in mathematics and physics with a wide range of applications in engineering and various other sciences. Motivated by recent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

Chimera states in systems of nonlocally coupled oscillators, i.e., self-organized coexistence of coherent and incoherent oscillator populations, have attracted much attention. In this study, we consider the effect of frequency…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-02-06 Petar Mircheski , Hiroya Nakao

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

In a recent study of chaos synchronization in symmetric complex networks [Pecora \textit{et al}., Nat. Commun. {\bf 5}, 4079 (2014)], it is found that stable synchronous clusters may coexist with many non-synchronous nodes in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-31 Weijie Lin , Huiyan Li , Heping Ying , Xingang Wang

Chimera states, which consist of coexisting synchronous and asynchronous domains in networks of coupled oscillators, are in the focus of attention for over a decade. Although chimera morphology and properties have been investigated in a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-17 Astero Provata

We study the dynamics of mobile, locally coupled identical oscillators in the presence of coupling delays. We find different kinds of chimera states, in which coherent in-phase and anti-phase domains coexist with incoherent domains. These…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-29 Gabriela Petrungaro , Koichiro Uriu , Luis G. Morelli

A chimera state is a spatio-temporal pattern in a network of identical coupled oscillators in which synchronous and asynchronous oscillation coexist. This state of broken symmetry, which usually coexists with a stable spatially symmetric…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-19 Mark J. Panaggio , Daniel M. Abrams

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

Systems of coupled oscillators have been seen to exhibit chimera states, i.e. states where the system splits into two groups where one group is phase locked and the other is phase randomized. In this work, we report the existence of chimera…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chitra R Nayak , Neelima Gupte

We demonstrate that chimera behavior can be observed in ensembles of phase oscillators with unidirectional coupling. For a small network consisting of only three identical oscillators (cyclic triple), tiny {\it chimera islands} arise in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-27 Patrycja Jaros , Roman Levchenko , Tomasz Kapitaniak , Yuri Maistrenko

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