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We study the influence of nonuniform motion of oscillators in a ring chain with nonlocal coupling on their collective dynamics and reveal the mechanism behind the emergence of an atypical chimera state in such systems. The mechanism relies…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-12-02 Pavel A. Shcherbakov , Lev A. Smirnov , Vasily A. Kostin , Maxim I. Bolotov , Grigory V. Osipov

We study synchronization of $N$ oscillators indirectly coupled through a medium which is inhomogeneous and has its own dynamics. The system is formalized in terms of a multilayer network, where the top layer is made of disconnected…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-24 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca , Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes

We study the dynamics of a multilayer network of chaotic oscillators subject to an amplification. Previous studies have proven that multilayer networks present phenomena such as synchronization, cluster and chimera states. Here we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-03 Thierry Njougouo , Victor Camargo , Patrick Louodop , Fernando Fagundes Ferreira , Pierre K. Talla , Hilda A. Cerdeira

We study collective dynamics of networks of mutually coupled identical Lorenz oscillators near subcritical Hopf bifurcation. This system shows induced multistable behavior with interesting spatio-temporal dynamics including synchronization,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-20 Anjuman Ara Khatun , Yusra Ahmed Saeed , Nirmal Punetha , Haider Hasan Jafri

The coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains, namely the appearance of chimera states, is being studied extensively in many contexts of science and technology since the past decade, though the previous studies are mostly built on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-02-05 Srilena Kundu , 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

We analyze nonlocally coupled networks of identical chaotic oscillators with either time-discrete or time-continuous dynamics (Henon map, Lozi map, Lorenz system). We hypothesize that chimera states, in which spatial domains of coherent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-20 Nadezhda Semenova , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll , Vadim Anishchenko

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

Chimera is a fascinating phenomenon of coexisting synchronized and desynchronized behaviour that was discovered in networks of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators over ten years ago. Since then, chimeras were found in numerous…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-22 Andrea Vüllings , Johanne Hizanidis , Iryna Omelchenko , Philipp Hövel

We explore numerically the impact of additive Gaussian noise on the spatio-temporal dynamics of ring networks of nonlocally coupled chaotic maps. The local dynamics of network nodes is described by the logistic map, the Ricker map, and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-07-06 Elena Rybalova , Vasilii Nechaev , Eckehard Schöll , Galina Strelkova

Chimera states, which consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics, have been widely found in nonlocally coupled oscillatory systems. We demonstrate for the first time that chimera states can emerge from…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-04 Qionglin Dai , Mengya Zhang , Hongyan Cheng , Haihong Li , Fagen Xie , Junzhong Yang

Chimera states are dynamical patterns in networks of coupled oscillators in which regions of synchronous and asynchronous oscillation coexist. Although these states are typically observed in large ensembles of oscillators and analyzed in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-02-03 Mark J. Panaggio , Daniel M. Abrams , Peter Ashwin , Carlo R. Laing

We show that amplitude-mediated phase chimeras and amplitude chimeras can occur in the same network of nonlocally coupled identical oscillators. These are two different partial synchronization patterns, where spatially coherent domains…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-12-08 Tanmoy Banerjee , Debabrata Biswas , Debarati Ghosh , Eckehard Schoell , Anna Zakharova

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

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

One of the simplest mathematical models in the study of nonlinear systems is the Kuramoto model, which describes synchronization in systems from swarms of insects to superconductors. We have recently found a connection between the original,…

We investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled chaotic systems with nonlocal interactions, where each element is coupled to its nearest neighbors within a finite range. Depending upon the coupling strength and coupling radius, we…

The dynamics of a large array of coupled semiconductor lasers is studied for a nonlocal coupling scheme. Our focus is on chimera states, a self-organized spatio-temporal pattern of co-existing coherence and incoherence. In laser systems,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-27 J. Shena , J. Hizanidis , P. Hövel , G. P. Tsironis

In this article, we report the development of an emerging dynamical state, namely, the alternating chimera, in a network of identical neuronal systems induced by an external electromagnetic field. Owing to this interaction scenario, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-09-10 Soumen Majhi , Dibakar Ghosh

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