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Follmann R, Rosa E, Stein W. Dynamics of signal propagation and collision in axons. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:032707. [PMID: 26465498 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.032707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Long-range communication in the nervous system is usually carried out with the propagation of action potentials along the axon of nerve cells. While typically thought of as being unidirectional, it is not uncommon for axonal propagation of action potentials to happen in both directions. This is the case because action potentials can be initiated at multiple "ectopic" positions along the axon. Two ectopic action potentials generated at distinct sites, and traveling toward each other, will collide. As neuronal information is encoded in the frequency of action potentials, action potential collision and annihilation may affect the way in which neuronal information is received, processed, and transmitted. We investigate action potential propagation and collision using an axonal multicompartment model based on the Hodgkin-Huxley equations. We characterize propagation speed, refractory period, excitability, and action potential collision for slow (type I) and fast (type II) axons. In addition, our studies include experimental measurements of action potential propagation in axons of two biological systems. Both computational and experimental results unequivocally indicate that colliding action potentials do not pass each other; they are reciprocally annihilated.
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- Rosangela Follmann
- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, USA
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- Department of Physics, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, USA
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Omelchenko I, Zakharova A, Hövel P, Siebert J, Schöll E. Nonlinearity of local dynamics promotes multi-chimeras. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2015; 25:083104. [PMID: 26328555 DOI: 10.1063/1.4927829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns in which domains of synchronous and asynchronous dynamics coexist in coupled systems of oscillators. We examine how the character of the individual elements influences chimera states by studying networks of nonlocally coupled Van der Pol oscillators. Varying the bifurcation parameter of the Van der Pol system, we can interpolate between regular sinusoidal and strongly nonlinear relaxation oscillations and demonstrate that more pronounced nonlinearity induces multi-chimera states with multiple incoherent domains. We show that the stability regimes for multi-chimera states and the mean phase velocity profiles of the oscillators change significantly as the nonlinearity becomes stronger. Furthermore, we reveal the influence of time delay on chimera patterns.
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- Iryna Omelchenko
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Hizanidis J, Panagakou E, Omelchenko I, Schöll E, Hövel P, Provata A. Chimera states in population dynamics: Networks with fragmented and hierarchical connectivities. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:012915. [PMID: 26274255 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2015] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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We study numerically the development of chimera states in networks of nonlocally coupled oscillators whose limit cycles emerge from a Hopf bifurcation. This dynamical system is inspired from population dynamics and consists of three interacting species in cyclic reactions. The complexity of the dynamics arises from the presence of a limit cycle and four fixed points. When the bifurcation parameter increases away from the Hopf bifurcation the trajectory approaches the heteroclinic invariant manifolds of the fixed points producing spikes, followed by long resting periods. We observe chimera states in this spiking regime as a coexistence of coherence (synchronization) and incoherence (desynchronization) in a one-dimensional ring with nonlocal coupling and demonstrate that their multiplicity depends on both the system and the coupling parameters. We also show that hierarchical (fractal) coupling topologies induce traveling multichimera states. The speed of motion of the coherent and incoherent parts along the ring is computed through the Fourier spectra of the corresponding dynamics.
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- Johanne Hizanidis
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece
- Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003 Heraklion, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece
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Böhm F, Zakharova A, Schöll E, Lüdge K. Amplitude-phase coupling drives chimera states in globally coupled laser networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:040901. [PMID: 25974428 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.040901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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For a globally coupled network of semiconductor lasers with delayed optical feedback, we demonstrate the existence of chimera states. The domains of coherence and incoherence that are typical for chimera states are found to exist for the amplitude, phase, and inversion of the coupled lasers. These chimera states defy several of the previously established existence criteria. While chimera states in phase oscillators generally demand nonlocal coupling, large system sizes, and specially prepared initial conditions, we find chimera states that are stable for global coupling in a network of only four coupled lasers for random initial conditions. The existence is linked to a regime of multistability between the synchronous steady state and asynchronous periodic solutions. We show that amplitude-phase coupling, a concept common in different fields, is necessary for the formation of the chimera states.
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- Fabian Böhm
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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Omelchenko I, Provata A, Hizanidis J, Schöll E, Hövel P. Robustness of chimera states for coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:022917. [PMID: 25768579 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.022917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Chimera states are complex spatio-temporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics. This counterintuitive phenomenon was first observed in systems of identical oscillators with symmetric coupling topology. Can one overcome these limitations? To address this question, we discuss the robustness of chimera states in networks of FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators. Considering networks of inhomogeneous elements with regular coupling topology, and networks of identical elements with irregular coupling topologies, we demonstrate that chimera states are robust with respect to these perturbations and analyze their properties as the inhomogeneities increase. We find that modifications of coupling topologies cause qualitative changes of chimera states: additional random links induce a shift of the stability regions in the system parameter plane, gaps in the connectivity matrix result in a change of the multiplicity of incoherent regions of the chimera state, and hierarchical geometry in the connectivity matrix induces nested coherent and incoherent regions.
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- Iryna Omelchenko
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos," 15310 Athens, Greece
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
- Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Lafranceschina J, Wackerbauer R. Impact of weak excitatory synapses on chaotic transients in a diffusively coupled Morris-Lecar neuronal network. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2015; 25:013119. [PMID: 25637930 DOI: 10.1063/1.4907193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Spatiotemporal chaos collapses to either a rest state or a propagating pulse solution in a ring network of diffusively coupled, excitable Morris-Lecar neurons. Weak excitatory synapses can increase the Lyapunov exponent, expedite the collapse, and promote the collapse to the rest state rather than the pulse state. A single traveling pulse solution may no longer be asymptotic for certain combinations of network topology and (weak) coupling strengths, and initiate spatiotemporal chaos. Multiple pulses can cause chaos initiation due to diffusive and synaptic pulse-pulse interaction. In the presence of chaos initiation, intermittent spatiotemporal chaos exists until typically a collapse to the rest state.
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- Department of Physics, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-5920, USA
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Xie J, Knobloch E, Kao HC. Multicluster and traveling chimera states in nonlocal phase-coupled oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2014; 90:022919. [PMID: 25215811 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.90.022919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Chimera states consisting of domains of coherently and incoherently oscillating identical oscillators with nonlocal coupling are studied. These states usually coexist with the fully synchronized state and have a small basin of attraction. We propose a nonlocal phase-coupled model in which chimera states develop from random initial conditions. Several classes of chimera states have been found: (a) stationary multicluster states with evenly distributed coherent clusters, (b) stationary multicluster states with unevenly distributed clusters, and (c) a single cluster state traveling with a constant speed across the system. Traveling coherent states are also identified. A self-consistent continuum description of these states is provided and their stability properties analyzed through a combination of linear stability analysis and numerical simulation.
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- Jianbo Xie
- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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Ujjwal SR, Ramaswamy R. Chimeras with multiple coherent regions. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:032902. [PMID: 24125320 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.032902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2013] [Revised: 06/16/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We study chimeric states in a coupled phase oscillator system with piecewise linear nonlocal coupling. By modifying the details of the coupling, it is possible to obtain multiple chimeric states with a specified number of coherent regions and with specified phase relationships. The case of a two-component chimera is illustrated and the generalization to arbitrary chimeric configurations is discussed. The phase relations between the two clusters of phase oscillators is described in some detail.
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- Sangeeta Rani Ujjwal
- School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
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Larger L, Penkovsky B, Maistrenko Y. Virtual chimera states for delayed-feedback systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 111:054103. [PMID: 23952404 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.111.054103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Time-delayed systems are found to display remarkable temporal patterns the dynamics of which split into regular and chaotic components repeating at the interval of a delay. This novel long-term behavior for delay dynamics results from strongly asymmetric nonlinear delayed feedback driving a highly damped harmonic oscillator dynamics. In the corresponding virtual space-time representation, the behavior is found to develop as a chimeralike state, a new paradigmatic object from the network theory characterized by the coexistence of synchronous and incoherent oscillations. Numerous virtual chimera states are obtained and analyzed, through experiment, theory, and simulations.
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- Laurent Larger
- FEMTO-ST/Optics Department, UMR CNRS 6174, University of Franche-Comté, 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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Omelchenko I, Omel'chenko OE, Hövel P, Schöll E. When nonlocal coupling between oscillators becomes stronger: patched synchrony or multichimera states. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2013; 110:224101. [PMID: 23767727 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.110.224101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 159] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2012] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Systems of nonlocally coupled oscillators can exhibit complex spatiotemporal patterns, called chimera states, which consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent (synchronized) and incoherent dynamics. We report on a novel form of these states, found in a widely used model of a limit-cycle oscillator if one goes beyond the limit of weak coupling typical for phase oscillators. Then patches of synchronized dynamics appear within the incoherent domain giving rise to a multi-chimera state. We find that, depending on the coupling strength and range, different multichimera states arise in a transition from classical chimera states. The additional spatial modulation is due to strong coupling interaction and thus cannot be observed in simple phase-oscillator models.
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- Iryna Omelchenko
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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Omel'chenko OE, Wolfrum M, Yanchuk S, Maistrenko YL, Sudakov O. Stationary patterns of coherence and incoherence in two-dimensional arrays of non-locally-coupled phase oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2012; 85:036210. [PMID: 22587164 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.85.036210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2011] [Revised: 01/30/2012] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Recently, it has been shown that large arrays of identical oscillators with nonlocal coupling can have a remarkable type of solutions that display a stationary macroscopic pattern of coexisting regions with coherent and incoherent motions, often called chimera states. Here, we present a detailed numerical study of the appearance of such solutions in two-dimensional arrays of coupled phase oscillators. We discover a variety of stationary patterns, including circular spots, stripe patterns, and patterns of multiple spirals. Here, stationarity means that, for increasing system size, the locally averaged phase distributions tend to the stationary profile given by the corresponding thermodynamic limit equation.
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- O E Omel'chenko
- Weierstrass Institute, Mohrenstrasse 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Wolfrum M, Omel'chenko OE. Chimera states are chaotic transients. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2011; 84:015201. [PMID: 21867244 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.84.015201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2011] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Spatiotemporal chaos and turbulence are universal concepts for the explanation of irregular behavior in various physical systems. Recently, a remarkable new phenomenon, called "chimera states," has been described, where in a spatially homogeneous system, regions of irregular incoherent motion coexist with regular synchronized motion, forming a self-organized pattern in a population of nonlocally coupled oscillators. Whereas most previous studies of chimera states focused their attention on the case of large numbers of oscillators employing the thermodynamic limit of infinitely many oscillators, here we investigate the properties of chimera states in populations of finite size using concepts from deterministic chaos. Our calculations of the Lyapunov spectrum show that the incoherent motion, which is described in the thermodynamic limit as a stationary behavior, in finite size systems appears as weak spatially extensive chaos. Moreover, for sufficiently small populations the chimera states reveal their transient nature: after a certain time span we observe a sudden collapse of the chimera pattern and a transition to the completely coherent state. Our results indicate that chimera states can be considered as chaotic transients, showing the same properties as type-II supertransients in coupled map lattices.
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- Matthias Wolfrum
- Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany
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Wolfrum M, Omel'chenko OE, Yanchuk S, Maistrenko YL. Spectral properties of chimera states. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2011; 21:013112. [PMID: 21456826 DOI: 10.1063/1.3563579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Chimera states are particular trajectories in systems of phase oscillators with nonlocal coupling that display a spatiotemporal pattern of coherent and incoherent motion. We present here a detailed analysis of the spectral properties for such trajectories. First, we study numerically their Lyapunov spectrum and its behavior for an increasing number of oscillators. The spectra demonstrate the hyperchaotic nature of the chimera states and show a correspondence of the Lyapunov dimension with the number of incoherent oscillators. Then, we pass to the thermodynamic limit equation and present an analytic approach to the spectrum of a corresponding linearized evolution operator. We show that, in this setting, the chimera state is neutrally stable and that the continuous spectrum coincides with the limit of the hyperchaotic Lyapunov spectrum obtained for the finite size systems.
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- M Wolfrum
- Weierstrass Institute, Mohrenstr. 39, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Bordyugov G, Pikovsky A, Rosenblum M. Self-emerging and turbulent chimeras in oscillator chains. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:035205. [PMID: 21230131 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.035205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2010] [Revised: 09/10/2010] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We report on a self-emerging chimera state in a homogeneous chain of nonlocally and nonlinearly coupled oscillators. This chimera, i.e., a state with coexisting regions of complete and partial synchrony, emerges via a supercritical bifurcation from a homogeneous state. We develop a theory of chimera based on the Ott-Antonsen equations for the local complex order parameter. Applying a numerical linear stability analysis, we also describe the instability of the chimera and transition to phase turbulence with persistent patches of synchrony.
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- Grigory Bordyugov
- Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany.
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Omel'chenko OE, Wolfrum M, Maistrenko YL. Chimera states as chaotic spatiotemporal patterns. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:065201. [PMID: 20866466 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.065201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2009] [Revised: 05/18/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Chimera states are a recently new discovered dynamical phenomenon that appears in arrays of nonlocally coupled oscillators and displays a spatial pattern of coherent and incoherent regions. We report here an additional feature of this dynamical regime: an irregular motion of the position of the coherent and incoherent regions, i.e., we reveal the nature of the chimera as a spatiotemporal pattern with a regular macroscopic pattern in space, and an irregular motion in time. This motion is a finite-size effect that is not observed in the thermodynamic limit. We show that on a large time scale, it can be described as a Brownian motion. We provide a detailed study of its dependence on the number of oscillators N and the parameters of the system.
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- Oleh E Omel'chenko
- Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, 10117 Berlin, Germany
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Laing CR. Chimeras in networks of planar oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:066221. [PMID: 20866515 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.066221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2010] [Revised: 06/07/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Chimera states occur in networks of coupled oscillators, and are characterized by having some fraction of the oscillators perfectly synchronized, while the remainder are desynchronized. Most chimera states have been observed in networks of phase oscillators with coupling via a sinusoidal function of phase differences, and it is only for such networks that any analysis has been performed. Here we present the first analysis of chimera states in a network of planar oscillators, each of which is described by both an amplitude and a phase. We find that as the attractivity of the underlying periodic orbit is reduced chimeras are destroyed in saddle-node bifurcations, and supercritical Hopf and homoclinic bifurcations of chimeras also occur.
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Yi M, Yang L. Propagation of firing rate by synchronization and coherence of firing pattern in a feed-forward multilayer neural network. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 81:061924. [PMID: 20866457 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.81.061924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2010] [Revised: 04/03/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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When neurons in layer 1 fire irregularly under stochastic noise, it is found synchronous firings can develop gradually in latter layers within a feed-forward multilayer neural network, which is consistent with experimental findings. The underlying mechanism of propagation of firing rate is explored, then rate encoding realized by synchronization is clarified. Furthermore, the effects of connection probability between nearest layers, stochastic noise, and ratio of inhibitory connections to total connection on (i) propagation of firing rate by synchronization and (ii) coherence of firing pattern are investigated, respectively. It is observed that (i) there is a threshold for connection probability, beyond which firing rate of each layer can propagate successfully through the whole network by synchronization. The dependence of firing rate on layer index is very different for different connection probability. In addition, larger the connection probability is, more rapidly the synchrony is built up. (ii) Increasing intensity of stochastic noise enhances firing rate in output layer. Stochastic noise plays a constructive role in improving synchrony by causing the synchronization more quickly. (iii) The inhibitory connection offsets excitatory input therefore reduces firing rate and synchrony. As layer index increases, coherence measure goes through a peak, i.e., the coherence of firing pattern is the worst at certain a layer. With increasing the ratio of inhibitory connections, the variability of firing train is enhanced, exhibiting destructive role of inhibitory connections on coherence of firing pattern.
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- Ming Yi
- Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.
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Wang SJ, Xu XJ, Wu ZX, Huang ZG, Wang YH. Influence of synaptic interaction on firing synchronization and spike death in excitatory neuronal networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2008; 78:061906. [PMID: 19256867 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.78.061906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 09/26/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We investigate the influence of efficacy of synaptic interaction on firing synchronization in excitatory neuronal networks. We find spike death phenomena: namely, the state of neurons transits from the limit cycle to a fixed point or transient state. The phenomena occur under the perturbation of an excitatory synaptic interaction, which has a high efficacy. We show that the decrease of synaptic current results in spike death through depressing the feedback of the sodium ionic current. In the networks with the spike death property the degree of synchronization is lower and insensitive to the heterogeneity of neurons. The mechanism of the influence is that the transition of the neuron state disrupts the adjustment of the rhythm of the neurons oscillation and prevents a further increase of the firing synchronization.
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- Sheng-Jun Wang
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Gansu 730000, China
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Abrams DM, Mirollo R, Strogatz SH, Wiley DA. Solvable model for chimera states of coupled oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2008; 101:084103. [PMID: 18764617 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.084103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 281] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2008] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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Networks of identical, symmetrically coupled oscillators can spontaneously split into synchronized and desynchronized subpopulations. Such chimera states were discovered in 2002, but are not well understood theoretically. Here we obtain the first exact results about the stability, dynamics, and bifurcations of chimera states by analyzing a minimal model consisting of two interacting populations of oscillators. Along with a completely synchronous state, the system displays stable chimeras, breathing chimeras, and saddle-node, Hopf, and homoclinic bifurcations of chimeras.
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- Daniel M Abrams
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 54-621, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Sakaguchi H, Tanaka D. Global structure in spatiotemporal chaos of the Matthews-Cox equations. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 76:025201. [PMID: 17930094 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.76.025201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2007] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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We find that an amplitude death state and a spatiotemporally chaotic state coexist spontaneously in the Matthews-Cox equations and this coexistence is robust. Although the entire system is far from equilibrium, the domain wall between the two states is stabilized by a negative-feedback effect due to a conservation law. This is analogous to the phase separation in conserved systems that exhibit spinodal decompositions. We observe similar phenomena also in the Nikolaevskii equation, from which the Matthews-Cox equations were derived. A Galilean invariance of the former equation corresponds to the conservation law of the latter equations.
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- Hidetsugu Sakaguchi
- Department of Applied Science for Electronics and Materials, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816-8580, Japan
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Kawamura Y. Chimera Ising walls in forced nonlocally coupled oscillators. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2007; 75:056204. [PMID: 17677145 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.75.056204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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Nonlocally coupled oscillator systems can exhibit an exotic spatiotemporal structure called a chimera, where the system splits into two groups of oscillators with sharp boundaries, one of which is phase locked and the other phase randomized. Two examples of chimera states are known: the first one appears in a ring of phase oscillators, and the second is associated with two-dimensional rotating spiral waves. In this paper, we report yet another example of the chimera state that is associated with the so-called Ising walls in one-dimensional spatially extended systems. This chimera state is exhibited by a nonlocally coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with external forcing.
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- Yoji Kawamura
- Department of Physics, Graduate School of Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
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Wang SJ, Xu XJ, Wu ZX, Wang YH. Effects of degree distribution in mutual synchronization of neural networks. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2006; 74:041915. [PMID: 17155104 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.041915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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We study the effects of the degree distribution in mutual synchronization of two-layer neural networks. We carry out three coupling strategies: large-large coupling, random coupling, and small-small coupling. By computer simulations and analytical methods, we find that couplings between nodes with large degree play an important role in the synchronization. For large-large coupling, less couplings are needed for inducing synchronization for both random and scale-free networks. For random coupling, cutting couplings between nodes with large degree is very efficient for preventing neural systems from synchronization, especially when subnetworks are scale free.
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- Sheng-Jun Wang
- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou Gansu 730000, China
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