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Chimera states occur in networks of coupled oscillators, and are characterized by having some fraction of the oscillators perfectly synchronized, while the remainder are desynchronized. Most chimera states have been observed in networks of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-19 Carlo R. Laing

We investigate states of enhanced activity in a biological neuronal network composed of pulse-coupled oscillators. The synaptic couplings between the neurons are dynamic, modeling spike time dependent plasticity. The network exhibits…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-08-17 Daniel Ritterskamp , Rudolf Friedrich

The dynamic of thermosensitive neuronal networks under the influence of external electric fields is explored, focusing on hybrid coupling models that incorporate both electrical and chemical synapses. Numerical simulations reveal a variety…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-19 Ediline L. F. Nguessap , Antonio C. Roque , Fernando F. Ferreira

We study a system of phase oscillators with nonlocal coupling in a ring that supports self-organized patterns of coherence and incoherence, called chimera states. Introducing a global feedback loop, connecting the phase lag to the order…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-08-03 Matthias Wolfrum , Oleh Omel'chenko , Jan Sieber

We consider two coupled populations of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons. Depending on the coupling strength, mean fields generated by these populations can have incommensurate frequencies, or become frequency locked. In the observed 2:1…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-23 M. I. Bolotov , G. V. Osipov , A. Pikovsky

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

Networks of identical, symmetrically coupled oscillators can spontaneously split into synchronized and desynchronized sub-populations. Such chimera states were discovered in 2002, but are not well understood theoretically. Here we obtain…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-07 Daniel M. Abrams , Renato E. Mirollo , Steven H. Strogatz , Daniel A. Wiley

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

Chimera states, representing a spontaneous break-up of a population of identical oscillators that are identically coupled, into sub-populations displaying synchronized and desynchronized behavior, have traditionally been found to exist in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Gautam C Sethia , Abhijit Sen

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 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…

Chimera states have been a vibrant subject of research in the recent past, but the analytical treatment of transitions from chimeras to coherent states remains a challenge. Here we analytically derive the necessary conditions for this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-07 Sarbendu Rakshit , Zahra Faghani , Fatemeh Parastesh , Shirin Panahi , Sajad Jafari , Dibakar Ghosh , Matjaz Perc

Coupled phase oscillators model a variety of dynamical phenomena in nature and technological applications. Non-local coupling gives rise to chimera states which are characterized by a distinct part of phase-synchronized oscillators while…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-03-17 Christian Bick , Erik A. Martens

The defining property of chimera states is the coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains in systems that are structurally and spatially homogeneous. The recent realization that such states might be common in oscillator networks raises…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-19 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Hermann Riecke , Adilson E. Motter

In this chapter we review phenomenological models of seizure like activity. We discuss dynamical mechanisms for seizure onset and offset, preictal spikes, spike and wave complexes and status epilepticus, highlighting the role played by the…

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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

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

Chimera states in spatially extended networks of oscillators have some oscillators synchronised while the remainder are asynchronous. These states have primarily been studied in networks with nonlocal coupling, and more recently in networks…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-12-09 Carlo R. Laing

Chimera is a relatively new emerging phenomenon where coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous state is observed in symmetrically coupled dynamical units. We report observation of the chimera state in multiplex networks where individual…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-27 Saptarshi Ghosh , Sarika Jalan

Chimera states, which consist of coexisting domains of coherent and incoherent parts, have been observed in a variety of systems. Most of previous works on chimera states have taken into account specific form of interaction between…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-11-15 Hongyan Cheng , Qionglin Dai , Nianping Wu , Yuee Feng , Haihong Li , Junzhong Yang