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The emergence of order in collective dynamics is a fascinating phenomenon that characterizes many natural systems consisting of coupled entities. Synchronization is such an example where individuals, usually represented by either linear or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-01-26 Malbor Asllani , Bram A. Siebert , Alex Arenas , James P. Gleeson

We demonstrate that chimera behavior can be observed in small networks consisting of three identical oscillators, with mutual all-to-all coupling. Three different types of chimeras, characterized by the coexistence of two coherent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yuri Maistrenko , Serhiy Brezetsky , Patrycja Jaros , Roman Levchenko , Tomasz Kapitaniak

The defining property of chimera states is the coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains in systems that are structurally and spatially homogeneous. The recent realization that such states might be common in oscillator networks raises…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-19 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Hermann Riecke , Adilson E. Motter

Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Emma R. Zajdela , Daniel M. Abrams

Chimera states have been studied in 1D arrays, and a variety of different chimera states have been found using different models. Research has recently been extended to 2D arrays but only to phase models of them. Here, we extend it to a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-23 Changhai Tian , Xiyun Zhang , Zhenhua Wang , Zonghua Liu

Chimera states in coupled oscillator systems present both spatially coherent and incoherent domains. The number and size of these domains depend on many factors like the system parameters and initial conditions. Systematic investigations of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-06-26 C. A. S. Batista , R. L. Viana

Since its discovery in 2002, the chimera state has frequently been described as a counter-intuitive, puzzling phenomenon. The Kuramoto model, in contrast, has become a celebrated paradigm useful for understanding a range of phenomena…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-12 Tejas Kotwal , Xin Jiang , Daniel M. Abrams

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

Chimera-like states are manifested through the coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous dynamics and have been observed in various systems. To analyze the role of network topology in giving rise to chimera-like states we study a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-20 Bo Li , David Saad

State discrimination is a useful test problem with which to clarify the power and limitations of different classes of measurement. We consider the problem of discriminating between given states of a bi-partite quantum system via sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett , Graeme Weir

More than a decade ago, a surprising coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous behavior called the chimera state was discovered in networks of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators. In later years, chimeras were found to occur in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tassos Bountis , Vasileios G. Kanas , Johanne Hizanidis , Anastasios Bezerianos

Arrays of identical oscillators can display a remarkable spatiotemporal pattern in which phase-locked oscillators coexist with drifting ones. Discovered two years ago, such "chimera states" are believed to be impossible for locally or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-06-13 Daniel M. Abrams , Steven H. Strogatz

Chimeras are surprising yet important states in which domains of decoherent (asynchronous) and coherent (synchronous) oscillations co-exist. In this article, we report on the discovery of a new class of chimeras, called {\it mixed-amplitude…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-12-22 Tasso J. Kaper , Theodore Vo

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

We propose a general approach to characterize states of a bipartite system composed by a fully controllable and an unaccessible subsystems. The method is based on the measuring interference between states of the uncontrollable subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Isabel Sainz , Juan J. Díaz , Andrei B. Klimov

We report on a self-emerging chimera state in a homogeneous chain of nonlocally and nonlinearly coupled oscillators. This chimera, i.e. a state with coexisting regions of complete and partial synchrony, emerges via a supercritical…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Bordyugov , A. Pikovsky , M. Rosenblum

Chimera states---the coexistence of synchrony and asynchrony in a nonlocally-coupled network of identical oscillators---are often used as a model framework for epileptic seizures. Here, we explore the dynamics of chimera states in a network…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Henry M. Mitchell , Peter Sheridan Dodds , J. Matthew Mahoney , Christopher M. Danforth

Collective behavior among coupled dynamical units can emerge in various forms as a result of different coupling topologies as well as different types of coupling functions. Chimera states have recently received ample attention as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-24 Bidesh K. Bera , Soumen Majhi , Dibakar Ghosh , Matjaz Perc

Chimera states---curious symmetry-broken states in systems of identical coupled oscillators---typically occur only for certain initial conditions. Here we analyze their basins of attraction in a simple system comprised of two populations.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-15 Erik A. Martens , Mark J. Panaggio , Daniel M. Abrams

This paper is dedicated to a detailed analysis and computation of quantum states of causal fermion systems. The mathematical core is to compute integrals over the unitary group asymptotically for a large dimension of the group, for various…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran , Moritz Reintjes