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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 29: Networks – Statistics and Dynamics (joint DY/BP/SOE)

BP 29.1: Talk

Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 15:00–15:15, ZEU 118

Chimera states: spontaneous symmetry-breaking in dynamical networks — •Eckehard Schöll — Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin, Hardenbergstr 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Systems of nonlocally coupled identical oscillators can exhibit symmetry-breaking in the form of complex spatiotemporal patterns, called chimera states, which consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent (synchronized) and incoherent (desynchronized) dynamics. We describe the scenario leading from complete coherence to complete incoherence via chimera states [1,2], and present a general analytical calculation of the critical coupling strength at the onset of the chimera states.

[1] I. Omelchenko, Y. Maistrenko, P. Hövel, and E. Schöll: Loss of coherence in dynamical networks: spatial chaos and chimera states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 234102 (2011).

[2] A. Hagerstrom, T.E. Murphy, R. Roy, P. Hövel, I. Omelchenko, and E. Schöll: Experimental observation of chimeras in coupled-map lattices. Nature Physics 8, 658 (2012)

Work in collaboration with A. Hagerstrom, P. Hövel, K. Krischer, Y. Maistrenko, T.E. Murphy, I. Omelchenko, O.E. Omel’chenko, R. Roy, A. Zakharova.