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Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of coherent and incoherent dynamics. We analyse chimera states in networks of Van der Pol oscillators with hierarchical coupling topology. We investigate…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-02 Stefan Ulonska , Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schoell

Chimera state is defined as a mixed type of collective state in which synchronized and desynchronized subpopulations of a network of coupled oscillators coexist and the appearance of such anomalous behavior has strong connection to diverse…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Srilena Kundu , Soumen Majhi , Bidesh K. Bera , Dibakar Ghosh , M. Lakshmanan

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

Chimera states, a symmetry-breaking spatiotemporal pattern in nonlocally coupled identical dynamical units, prevail in a variety of systems. Here, we consider a population of nonlocally coupled bicomponent phase oscillators in which…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-10 Qionglin Dai , Kai Yang , Hongyan Cheng , Haihong Li , Fagen Xie , Junzhong Yang

How higher-order interactions influence dynamical behavior in networks of coupled chaotic oscillators remains an open question. To address this, we investigate emergent dynamical behaviors in a wheel network of R\"ossler and Lorenz…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-06 Ashwathi Poolamanna , Medha Bhindwar , Chandrakala Meena

We have identified the occurrence of chimera states for various coupling schemes in networks of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Hindmarsh-Rose oscillators, which represent realistic models of neuronal ensembles. This result, together…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-16 Johanne Hizanidis , Vasilis Kanas , Anastasios Bezerianos , Tassos Bountis

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

Chimera states, namely complex spatiotemporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics, are investigated in a network of coupled identical oscillators. These intriguing spatiotemporal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-29 Sarbendu Rakshit , Bidesh K. Bera , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

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

By developing the concepts of strength of incoherence and discontinuity measure, we show that a distinct quantitative characterization of chimera and multichimera states which occur in networks of coupled nonlinear dynamical systems…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar , A. Venkatesan , M. Lakshmanan

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

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

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

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

The effects of nonlocal and reflecting connectivities have been previously investigated in coupled Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (LIF) elements, which assimilate the exchange of electrical signals between neurons. In this work we investigate the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-16 N. D. Tsigkri-DeSmedt , I. Koulierakis , G. Karakos , A. Provata

Chimera states, marked by the coexistence of order and disorder in systems of coupled oscillators, have captivated researchers with their existence and intricate patterns. Despite ongoing advances, a fully understanding of the genesis of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-12-10 Malbor Asllani , Alex Arenas

A system of symmetrically coupled identical oscillators with phase lag is presented, which is capable of generating a large repertoire of transient (metastable) "chimera" states in which synchronisation and desynchronisation co-exist. The…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Murray Shanahan

Chimera states, i.e., dynamical states composed of coexisting synchronous and asynchronous oscillations, have been reported to exist in diverse topologies of oscillators in simulations and experiments. Two-population networks with distinct…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-24 Seungjae Lee , Katharina Krischer

Spatial coexistence of coherent and incoherent dynamics in network of coupled oscillators is called a chimera state. We study such chimera states in a network of neurons without any direct interactions but connected through another medium…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-14 Soumen Majhi , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Chimera states are complex spatiotemporal patterns consisting of coexisting domains of coherence and incoherence. We study networks of nonlocally coupled logistic maps and analyze systematically how the dilution of the network links…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-09 Alexander zur Bonsen , Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll