Phase chimera states: frozen patterns of disorder

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Auteurs principaux: Zajdela, Emma R., Abrams, Daniel M.
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author Zajdela, Emma R.
Abrams, Daniel M.
author_facet Zajdela, Emma R.
Abrams, Daniel M.
contents Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on oscillators with variable amplitudes. Here we examine the simplest such oscillators -- Stuart-Landau oscillators -- and attempt to elucidate some puzzling dynamics observed in simulation by us and others. We demonstrate the existence and stability of a previously unreported state which we call a ``phase chimera state.'' Remarkably, in this state, the amplitudes of all oscillators are identical, but one subset of oscillators phase-locks while another subset remains incoherent in phase. We also show that this state can take the form of a ``multitailed phase chimera state'' where a single phase-synchronous cluster of oscillators coexists with multiple groups of phase-incoherent oscillators.
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spellingShingle Phase chimera states: frozen patterns of disorder
Zajdela, Emma R.
Abrams, Daniel M.
Chaotic Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Pattern Formation and Solitons
Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on oscillators with variable amplitudes. Here we examine the simplest such oscillators -- Stuart-Landau oscillators -- and attempt to elucidate some puzzling dynamics observed in simulation by us and others. We demonstrate the existence and stability of a previously unreported state which we call a ``phase chimera state.'' Remarkably, in this state, the amplitudes of all oscillators are identical, but one subset of oscillators phase-locks while another subset remains incoherent in phase. We also show that this state can take the form of a ``multitailed phase chimera state'' where a single phase-synchronous cluster of oscillators coexists with multiple groups of phase-incoherent oscillators.
title Phase chimera states: frozen patterns of disorder
topic Chaotic Dynamics
Mathematical Physics
Dynamical Systems
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Pattern Formation and Solitons
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.06190