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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

Understanding and controlling the mechanisms behind synchronization phenomena is of paramount importance in nonlinear science. In particular, the emergence of chimera states, patterns in which order and disorder coexist simultaneously,…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-22 Riccardo Muolo , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Hiroya Nakao , Mattia Frasca

Chimera is a rich and fascinating class of self-organized solutions developed in high dimensional networks having non-local and symmetry breaking coupling features. Its accurate understanding is expected to bring important insight in many…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-03 Laurent Larger , Bogdan Penkovsky , Yuri Maistrenko

We consider networks formed from two populations of identical oscillators, with uniform strength all-to-all coupling within populations, and also between populations, with a different strength. Such systems are known to support chimera…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-08-28 Carlo R. Laing

Systems of coupled oscillators have been seen to exhibit chimera states, i.e. states where the system splits into two groups where one group is phase locked and the other is phase randomized. In this work, we report the existence of chimera…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chitra R Nayak , Neelima Gupte

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

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

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

In a recent study of chaos synchronization in symmetric complex networks [Pecora \textit{et al}., Nat. Commun. {\bf 5}, 4079 (2014)], it is found that stable synchronous clusters may coexist with many non-synchronous nodes in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-12-31 Weijie Lin , Huiyan Li , Heping Ying , Xingang Wang

We show that chimera states, where differentiated subsets of synchronized and desynchronized dynamical elements coexist, can emerge in networks of hyperbolic chaotic oscillators subject to global interactions. As local dynamics we employ…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-04-05 A. V. Cano , M. G. Cosenza

Chimera states are complex spatiotemporal patterns in networks of identical oscillators, characterized by the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized dynamics. Here we propose to extend the phenomenon of chimera states to the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 V. M. Bastidas , I. Omelchenko , A. Zakharova , E. Schöll , T. Brandes

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 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

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

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

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, 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

Chimera state is a recently discovered dynamical phenomenon in arrays of nonlocally coupled oscillators, that displays a self-organized spatial pattern of co-existing coherence and incoherence. We discuss the appearance of the chimera…

Coupled oscillators, even identical ones, display a wide range of behaviours, among them synchrony and incoherence. The 2002 discovery of so-called chimera states, states of coexisting synchronized and unsynchronized oscillators, provided a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-27 Sindre W. Haugland , Anton Tosolini , Katharina Krischer

Collective behavior among coupled dynamical units can emerge in various forms as a result of different coupling topologies as well as different types of coupling functions. Chimera states have recently received ample attention as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-24 Bidesh K. Bera , Soumen Majhi , Dibakar Ghosh , Matjaz Perc