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Symmetry breaking spatial patterns, referred to as chimera states, have recently been catapulted into the limelight due to their coexisting coherent and incoherent hybrid dynamics. Here, we present a method to engineer a chimera state by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-15 Saptarshi Ghosh , Sarika Jalan

The coexistence of multiple types of interactions within social, technological and biological networks has moved the focus of the physics of complex systems towards a multiplex description of the interactions between their constituents.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-11-09 Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Manlio De Domenico , Gerardo Gutiérrez , Alex Arenas , Sergio Gómez

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

Chimera states are dynamical states where regions of synchronous trajectories coexist with incoherent ones. A significant amount of research has been devoted to study chimera states in systems of identical oscillators, non-locally coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Thierry Njougouo , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Timoteo Carletti , Mattia Frasca

In this work, we examine the conditions for the emergence of chimera-like states in Ising systems. We study an Ising chain with periodic boundaries in contact with a thermal bath at temperature T, that induces stochastic changes in spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Alejandro de Haro García , Joaquín J. Torres

We report the occurrence of a self-emerging frequency chimera state in spatially extended systems of coupled oscillators, where the coherence and incoherence are defined with respect to the emergent frequency of the oscillations. This is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-12-28 Sneha Kachhara , G. Ambika

How higher-order interactions influence dynamical behavior in networks of coupled chaotic oscillators remains an open question. To address this, we investigate emergent dynamical behaviors in a wheel network of R\"ossler and Lorenz…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ashwathi Poolamanna , Medha Bhindwar , Chandrakala Meena

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

We demonstrate emergence of a complex state in a homogeneous ensemble of globally coupled identical oscillators, reminiscent of chimera states in locally coupled oscillator lattices. In this regime some part of the ensemble forms a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Azamat Yeldesbay , Arkady Pikovsky , Michael Rosenblum

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

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

We investigate two types of chimera states, i.e., patterns consisting of coexisting spatially separated domains with coherent and incoherent dynamics, in ring networks of Stuart-Landau oscillators with symmetry-breaking coupling, under the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-27 Sarah A. M. Loos , Jens Christian Claussen , Eckehard Schöll , Anna Zakharova

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

We study remote (or relay) synchronization in multilayer networks between parts of one layer and their counterparts in a second layer, where these two layers are not directly connected. A simple realization of such a system is a triplex…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-01-02 Jakub Sawicki , Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll

We consider networks formed from two populations of identical oscillators, with uniform strength all-to-all coupling within populations, and also between populations, with a different strength. Such systems are known to support chimera…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-28 Carlo R. Laing

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

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 and Solitary states have captivated scientists and engineers due to their peculiar dynamical states corresponding to the co-existence of coherent and incoherent dynamical evolution in coupled units in various natural and artificial…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-02-15 Niraj Kushwaha , Naveen Kumar Mendola , Saptarshi Ghosh , Ajay Deep Kachhvah , Sarika Jalan

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, a symmetry-breaking spatiotemporal pattern in nonlocally coupled identical dynamical units, prevail in a variety of systems. Here, we consider a population of nonlocally coupled bicomponent phase oscillators in which…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-10 Qionglin Dai , Kai Yang , Hongyan Cheng , Haihong Li , Fagen Xie , Junzhong Yang