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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

The Kuramoto model is a system of ordinary differential equations for describing synchronization phenomena defined as a coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, a bifurcation structure of the infinite dimensional Kuramoto model is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Hayato Chiba

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological systems. The most successful approach to describe how coherent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-19 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Jürgen Kurths

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

Neural synchronization is central to cognition However, incomplete synchronization often produces chimera states where coherent and incoherent dynamics coexist. While previous studies have explored such patterns using networks of coupled…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Thomas Zdyrski , Scott Pauls , Feng Fu

Oscillatory media can exhibit the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized regions, so-called chimera states, for uniform parameters and symmetrical coupling. In a phase-balanced chimera state, where the totals of synchronized and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-22 Sindre W. Haugland , Lennart Schmidt , Katharina Krischer

The emergence of order in nature manifests in different phenomena, with synchronization being one of the most representative examples. Understanding the role played by the interactions between the constituting parts of a complex system in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Joseph D. O'Brien , Timoteo Carletti , Malbor Asllani

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

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 consisting of domains of coherently and incoherently oscillating nonlocally-coupled phase oscillators in systems with spatial inhomogeneity are studied. The inhomogeneity is introduced through the dependence of the oscillator…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-23 Jianbo Xie , Hsien-Ching Kao , Edgar Knobloch

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

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

We consider star networks of chaotic oscillators, with all end-nodes connected only to the central hub node, under diffusive coupling, conjugate coupling and mean-field type coupling. We observe the existence of chimeras in the end-nodes,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 Chandrakala Meena , K. Murali , Sudeshna Sinha

How higher-order interactions influence the dynamics of second order phase oscillators? We address this question using three coupled Kuramoto phase oscillators with inertia under both pairwise and higher order interactions, finding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Patrycja Jaros , Subrata Ghosh , Dawid Dudkowski , Syamal K. Dana , Tomasz Kapitaniak

We generalize the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators to allow time-delayed interactions. New phenomena include bistability between synchronized and incoherent states, and unsteady solutions with time-dependent order parameters. We derive…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 M. K. Stephen Yeung , Steven H. Strogatz

Synchronization is an important phenomenon in a wide variety of systems comprising interacting oscillatory units, whether natural (like neurons, biochemical reactions, cardiac cells) or artificial (like metronomes, power grids, Josephson…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-13 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

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

We study a theoretical model of closed quasi-hermitian chain of spins which exhibits quantum analogues of chimera states, i.e. long life classical states for which a part of an oscillator chain presents an ordered dynamics whereas another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 David Viennot , Lucile Aubourg

We present results obtained for a network of four delay-coupled lasers modelled by Lang-Kobayashi-type equations. We find small chimera states consisting of a pair of synchronized lasers and two unsynchronized lasers. One class of these…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-08-09 André Röhm , Fabian Böhm , Kathy Lüdge

This study examines the complex interplay between inertia and time delay in regular rotor networks within the framework of the second-order Kuramoto model. By combining analytical and numerical methods, we demonstrate that intrinsic time…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-19 Esmaeil Mahdavi , Mina Zarei , Philipp Hövel , Farhad Shahbazi