The role of timescale separation in oscillatory ensembles with competitive coupling
S Yu Kirillov1, V V Klinshov1, V I Nekorkin1
1Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia.
Abstract:
We study a heterogeneous population consisting of two groups of oscillatory elements, one with attractive and one with repulsive coupling. Moreover, we set different internal timescales for the oscillators of the two groups and concentrate on the role of this timescale separation in the collective behavior. Our results demonstrate that it may significantly modify synchronization properties of the system, and the implications are fundamentally different depending on the ratio between the group timescales. For the slower attractive group, synchronization properties are similar to the case of equal timescales. However, when the attractive group is faster, these properties significantly change and bistability appears. The other collective regimes such as frozen states and solitary states are also shown to be crucially influenced by timescale separation.
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