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Vladimir Klinshov1, Dmitry Shchapin1, Serhiy Yanchuk2
1Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ul'yanova Street, 603950, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Abstract:
Rings of oscillators with delayed pulse coupling are studied analytically, numerically, and experimentally. The basic regimes observed in such rings are rotating waves with constant interspike intervals and phase lags between the neighbors. We show that these rotating waves may destabilize leading to the so-called jittering waves. For these regimes, the interspike intervals are no more equal but form a periodic sequence in time. Analytic criterion for the emergence of jittering waves is derived and confirmed by the numerical and experimental data. The obtained results contribute to the hypothesis that the multijitter instability is universal in systems with pulse coupling.
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