Intermittent chaotic chimeras for coupled rotators

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2015 Sep;92(3):030901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.030901. Epub 2015 Sep 9.

Abstract

Two symmetrically coupled populations of N oscillators with inertia m display chaotic solutions with broken symmetry similar to experimental observations with mechanical pendulums. In particular, we report evidence of intermittent chaotic chimeras, where one population is synchronized and the other jumps erratically between laminar and turbulent phases. These states have finite lifetimes diverging as a power law with N and m. Lyapunov analyses reveal chaotic properties in quantitative agreement with theoretical predictions for globally coupled dissipative systems.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Motion*
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Periodicity*