Abstract
Since its discovery in 2002, the chimera state has frequently been described as a counterintuitive, puzzling phenomenon. The Kuramoto model, in contrast, has become a celebrated paradigm useful for understanding a range of phenomena related to phase transitions, synchronization, and network effects. Here we show that the chimera state can be understood as emerging naturally through a symmetry-breaking bifurcation from the Kuramoto model's partially synchronized state. Our analysis sheds light on recent observations of chimera states in laser arrays, chemical oscillators, and mechanical pendula.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 264101 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue number | 26 |
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| State | Published - Dec 29 2017 |
Funding
The authors thank Carlo Laing for helpful correspondence and Gokul Nair for helpful conversations. The author X. J. is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Grants No. 11201017 and No. 11290141.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy