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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

Neural networks rely on learning synaptic weights. However, this overlooks other neural parameters that can also be learned and may be utilized by the brain. One such parameter is the delay: the brain exhibits complex temporal dynamics with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Pengfei Sun , Jascha Achterberg , Zhe Su , Dan F. M. Goodman , Danyal Akarca

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

Chimera states are one of the most intriguing phenomena in nonlinear dynamics, characterized by the coexistence of coherent and incoherent behavior in systems of coupled identical oscillators. Despite extensive studies and numerous…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-24 S. Nirmala Jenifer , Riccardo Muolo , Paulsamy Muruganandam , Timoteo Carletti

We study numerically the dynamics of a network made of two coupled one-dimensional ensembles of discrete-time systems. The first ensemble is represented by a ring of nonlocally coupled Henon maps, and the second one - by a ring of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-12-06 Andrei Bukh , Elena Rybalova , Nadezhda Semenova , Galina Strelkova , Vadim Anishchenko

Chimeras occur in networks of two coupled populations of oscillators when the oscillators in one population synchronise while those in the other are asynchronous. We consider chimeras of this form in networks of planar oscillators for which…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-23 Carlo R. Laing

Case isolation, that is, detection and isolation of infected individuals in order to prevent spread, is a strategy to curb infectious disease epidemics. Here, we study the efficiency of a case isolation strategy subject to time delays in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Jonas Hansson , Alain Govaert , Richard Pates , Emma Tegling , Kristian Soltesz

We present an approach to generate chimera dynamics (localized frequency synchrony) in oscillator networks with two populations of (at least) two elements using a general method based on delayed interactions with linear and quadratic terms.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-10-25 Christian Bick , Michael Sebek , István Z. Kiss

Chimera states are a phenomenon in which order and disorder can co-exist within a network that is fully homogeneous. Precisely how transient chimeras emerge in finite networks of Kuramoto oscillators with phase-lag remains unclear.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-03 Roberto C. Budzinski , James W. C. Graham , Ján Mináč , Lyle E. Muller

We devise a machine learning technique to solve the general problem of inferring network links that have time-delays. The goal is to do this purely from time-series data of the network nodal states. This task has applications in fields…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-28 Amitava Banerjee , Joseph D. Hart , Rajarshi Roy , Edward Ott

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 study numerically the development of chimera states in networks of nonlocally coupled oscillators whose limit cycles emerge from a Hopf bifurcation. This dynamical system is inspired from population dynamics and consists of three…

Digital phase-locked loops (DPLLs) are nonlinear feedback-controlled systems that are widely used in electronic communication and signal processing applications. In most of the applications they work in coupled mode, however, vast of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-01-30 Bishwajit Paul , Tanmoy Banerjee

The production process of integrated electronic circuitry inherently leads to large heterogeneities on the component level. For electronic clock networks this implies detuned intrinsic frequencies and differences in coupling strength and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-09-04 Nirmal Punetha , Lucas Wetzel

Time lags occur in a vast range of real-world dynamical systems due to finite reaction times or propagation speeds. Here we derive an analytical approach to determine the asymptotic stability of synchronous states in networks of coupled…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-08 Reyk Börner , Paul Schultz , Benjamin Ünzelmann , Deli Wang , Frank Hellmann , Jürgen Kurths

We have identified the existence of globally clustered chimera states in delay coupled oscillator populations and find that these states can breathe periodically, aperiodically and become unstable depending upon the value of coupling delay.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 Jane H. Sheeba , V. K. Chandrasekar , 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

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

In this manuscript, we study the problem of robust synchronization in networks of diffusively time-delayed coupled nonlinear systems. In particular, we prove that, under some mild conditions on the input-output dynamics of the systems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Carlos Murguia , Henk Nijmeijer , Justin Ruths

Swarms of coupled mobile agents subject to inter-agent wireless communication delays are known to exhibit multiple dynamic patterns in space that depend on the strength of the interactions and the magnitude of the communication delays. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-26 Victoria Edwards , Philip deZonia , M. Ani Hsieh , Jason Hindes , Ioana Triandaf , Ira B Schwartz