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A general stability analysis is presented for the determination of the transition from incoherent to coherent behavior in an ensemble of globally coupled, heterogeneous, continuous-time dynamical systems. The formalism allows for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Edward Ott , Paul So , Ernest Barreto , Thomas Antonsen

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon, seen in systems as diverse as superconducting Josephson junctions and discharging pacemaker cells. Here the elements have rhythmic state variables whose mutual influence promotes temporal order. A…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-15 Kevin P. O'Keeffe , Joep H. M. Evers , Theodore Kolokolnikov

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

The ubiquitous occurrence of cluster patterns in nature still lacks a comprehensive understanding. It is known that the dynamics of many such natural systems is captured by ensembles of Stuart-Landau oscillators. Here, we investigate…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-02-13 Felix P. Kemeth , Sindre W. Haugland , Katharina Krischer

We obtain experimental chimera states in the minimal network of three identical mechanical oscillators (metronomes), by introducing phase-lagged all-to-all coupling. For this, we have developed a real-time model-in-the-loop coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-08 Pezhman Ebrahimzadeh , Michael Schiek , Patrycja Jaros , Tomasz Kapitaniak , Stefan van Waasen , Yuri Maistrenko

Over the past decades chimera states have attracted considerable attention given their unexpected symmetry-breaking spatio-temporal nature, simultaneously exhibiting synchronous and incoherent behaviours under specific conditions. Despite…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-07-20 Luis Guillermo Venegas-Pineda , Hildeberto Jardón-Kojakhmetov , Ming Cao

We report and classify the rich variety of patterns forming spontaneously in the oxide layer during the oscillatory photoelectrodissolution of n-type doped silicon electrodes under limited illumination. Remarkably, these patterns are often…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-06-16 Konrad Schoenleber , Carla Zensen , Andreas Heinrich , Katharina Krischer

We have investigated synchronized pattern in a network of Thomas oscillators coupled with sinusoidal nonlinear coupling. Pattern like chimera states are not only observed for many non-locally coupled oscillators but there is a signature of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-04-14 Vinesh Vijayan , Biplab Ganguli

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

We study a generalized Kuramoto model in which each oscillator carries two coupled phase variables, representing a minimal swarmalator system. Assuming perfect correlation between the intrinsic frequencies associated with each phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyunsuk Hong , Jae Sung Lee , Hyunggyu Park

We consider the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of identical coupled phase oscillators with a common noisy forcing. While common noise always tends to synchronize the oscillators, a strong repulsive coupling prevents the fully synchronous state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-12 Chen Chris Gong , Chunming Zheng , Ralf Toenjes , Arkady Pikovsky

The conditions under which synchronization is achieved for a one-dimensional ring of identical phase oscillators with Kuramoto-like local coupling are studied. The system is approached in the weakly coupled approximation as phase units.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-10-20 K. García Medina , E. Estevez-Rams

The notion of a weak chimeras provides a tractable definition for chimera states in networks of finitely many phase oscillators. Here we generalize the definition of a weak chimera to a more general class of equivariant dynamical systems by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-03-01 Christian Bick

We consider the nonlinear extension of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators where the phase shift in the coupling function depends on the order parameter. A bifurcation analysis of the transition from fully synchronous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksandr Burylko , Arkady Pikovsky

We investigate the occurrence of collective dynamical states such as transient amplitude chimera, stable amplitude chimera and imperfect breathing chimera states in a \textit{locally coupled} network of Stuart-Landau oscillators. In an…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-09-12 K. Premalatha , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

We investigate spatio-temporal dynamics of a 2D ensemble of nonlocally coupled chaotic cubic maps in a bistability regime. In particular, we perform a detailed study on the transition "coherence -- incoherence" for varying coupling strength…

We have developed a simple cellular automata model for nonlinearly coupled phase oscillators which can exhibit many important collective dynamical states found in other synchronizing systems. The state of our system is specified by a set of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-29 Amitava Banerjee , Muktish Acharyya

Chimera states, a symmetry-breaking spatiotemporal pattern in nonlocally coupled dynamical units, prevail in a variety of systems. However, the interaction structures among oscillators are static in most of studies on chimera state. In this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-23 Wenhao Wang , Qionglin Dai , Hongyan Cheng , Haihong Li , Junzhong Yang

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

We study the emergent collective behaviors for an ensemble of identical Kuramoto oscillators under the effect of inertia. In the absence of inertial effects, it is well known that the generic initial Kuramoto ensemble relaxes to the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-25 Young-Pil Choi , Seung-Yeal Ha , Javier Morales