Chimera states on complex networks

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Feb;89(2):022914. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.022914. Epub 2014 Feb 14.

Abstract

The model of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators on complex networks is investigated. We find the existence of chimera states in which identical oscillators evolve into distinct coherent and incoherent groups. We find that the coherent group of chimera states always contains the same oscillators no matter what the initial conditions are. The properties of chimera states and their dependence on parameters are investigated on both scale-free networks and Erdös-Rényi networks.