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Chimera states: the natural link between coherence and incoherence
Oleh E Omel'chenko1, Yuri L Maistrenko, Peter A Tass
1Institute of Neuroscience and Biophysics 3-Medicine, Research Center Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
Chimera states are remarkable spatiotemporal patterns in which coherence coexists with incoherence. As yet, chimera states have been considered as nongeneric, since they emerge only for particular initial conditions. In contrast, we show here that in a network of globally coupled oscillators delayed feedback stimulation with realistic (i.e., spatially decaying) stimulation profile generically induces chimera states. Intriguingly, a bifurcation analysis reveals that these chimera states are the natural link between the coherent and the incoherent states.
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