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We study a network of three populations of coupled phase oscillators with identical frequencies. The populations interact nonlocally, in the sense that all oscillators are coupled to one another, but more weakly to those in neighboring…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-02-14 Erik Andreas Martens

Nontrivial collective behavior may emerge from the interactive dynamics of many oscillatory units. Chimera states are chaotic patterns of spatially localized coherent and incoherent oscillations. The recently-introduced notion of a weak…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-10-10 Christian Bick , Peter Ashwin

Neural synchronization is central to cognition However, incomplete synchronization often produces chimera states where coherent and incoherent dynamics coexist. While previous studies have explored such patterns using networks of coupled…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-15 Thomas Zdyrski , Scott Pauls , Feng Fu

Nonlinear systems possessing nonattracting chaotic sets, such as chaotic saddles, embedded in their state space may oscillate chaotically for a transient time before eventually transitioning into some stable attractor. We show that these…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-14 Everton S. Medeiros , Oleh Omel'chenko , Ulrike Feudel

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

We study a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity in interaction. Under a week force, an oscillator tends to follow the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-28 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

Higher-order networks with multiway interactions can exhibit collective dynamical phenomena that are absent in traditional pairwise network models. However, analyzing such dynamics becomes computationally prohibitive as their state space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

A chimera state is a spatio-temporal pattern in a network of identical coupled oscillators in which synchronous and asynchronous oscillation coexist. This state of broken symmetry, which usually coexists with a stable spatially symmetric…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-19 Mark J. Panaggio , Daniel M. Abrams

We report the appearance of a scroll ring and scroll toroid chimera states from the proposed initial conditions for the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators in the 3D grid topology with inertia. The proposed initial conditions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-07-21 Volodymyr Maistrenko , Oleksandr Sudakov , Ievgen Sliusar

Chimera states are an example of intriguing partial synchronization patterns emerging in networks of identical oscillators. They consist of spatially coexisting domains of coherent (synchronized) and incoherent (desynchronized) dynamics. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-08-02 Jakub Sawicki , Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Eckehard Schöll

Swarmalators are phase oscillators capable of simultaneous swarming and synchronization, making them potential candidates for replicating complex dynamical states. In this work, we explore the effects of a frustration parameter in the phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-10 R. Senthamizhan , R. Gopal , V. K. Chandrasekar

The Kuramoto-Sakaguchi system of coupled phase oscillators, where interaction between oscillators is determined by a single harmonic of phase differences of pairs of oscillators, has very simple emergent dynamics in the case of identical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-10 Christian Bick , Peter Ashwin , Ana Rodrigues

The instability of mixing in the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is the key to understanding a range of spatiotemporal patterns, which feature prominently in collective dynamics of systems ranging from neuronal networks, to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-23 Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

Kuramoto and Battogtokh [Nonlinear Phenom. Complex Syst. 5, 380 (2002)] discovered chimera states represented by stable coexisting synchrony and asynchrony domains in a lattice of coupled oscillators. After reformulation in terms of local…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-02-01 L. A. Smirnov , G. V. Osipov , A. Pikovsky

We study networks of non-locally coupled electronic oscillators that can be described approximately by a Kuramoto-like model. The experimental networks show long complex transients from random initial conditions on the route to network…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-03 David P. Rosin , Damien Rontani , Nicholas D. Haynes , Eckehard Schöll , Daniel J. Gauthier

We investigate the significance of nonisochronicity parameter in a network of nonlocally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with symmetry breaking form. We observe that the presence of nonisochronicity parameter leads to structural changes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-18 K. Premalatha , V. K. Chandrasekar , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

In this work, we examine the conditions for the emergence of chimera-like states in Ising systems. We study an Ising chain with periodic boundaries in contact with a thermal bath at temperature T, that induces stochastic changes in spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-02-17 Alejandro de Haro García , Joaquín J. Torres

We report the diversity of scroll wave chimeras in the three-dimensional (3D) Kuramoto model with inertia for N^{3} identical phase oscillators placed in a unit 3D cube with periodic boundary conditions. In the considered model with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-24 V. Maistrenko , O. Sudakov , O. Osiv

We study the existence of chimera states, i.e. mixed states, in a globally coupled sine circle map lattice, with different strengths of inter-group and intra-group coupling. We find that at specific values of the parameters of the CML, a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-30 Joydeep Singha , Neelima Gupte

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