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Networks of coupled oscillators: From phase to amplitude chimeras
Tanmoy Banerjee1, Debabrata Biswas2, Debarati Ghosh1
1Chaos and Complex Systems Research Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, 713 104 West Bengal, India.
Abstract:
We show that amplitude-mediated phase chimeras and amplitude chimeras can occur in the same network of nonlocally coupled identical oscillators. These are two different partial synchronization patterns, where spatially coherent domains coexist with incoherent domains and coherence/incoherence referring to both amplitude and phase or only the amplitude of the oscillators, respectively. By changing the coupling strength, the two types of chimera patterns can be induced. We find numerically that the amplitude chimeras are not short-living transients but can have a long lifetime. Also, we observe variants of the amplitude chimeras with quasiperiodic temporal oscillations. We provide a qualitative explanation of the observed phenomena in the light of symmetry breaking bifurcation scenarios. We believe that this study will shed light on the connection between two disparate chimera states having different symmetry-breaking properties.
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