Understanding the dynamics of biological and neural oscillator networks through exact mean-field reductions: a review

C Bick, M Goodfellow, CR Laing… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Many biological and neural systems can be seen as networks of interacting periodic
processes. Importantly, their functionality, ie, whether these networks can perform their …

Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience

P Ashwin, S Coombes, R Nicks - The Journal of Mathematical …, 2016 - Springer
The tools of weakly coupled phase oscillator theory have had a profound impact on the
neuroscience community, providing insight into a variety of network behaviours ranging from …

Chimera states in mechanical oscillator networks

EA Martens, S Thutupalli, A Fourriere… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fascinating manifestation of self-organization
that nature uses to orchestrate essential processes of life, such as the beating of the heart …

Chimera and phase-cluster states in populations of coupled chemical oscillators

MR Tinsley, S Nkomo, K Showalter - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Populations of coupled oscillators may exhibit two coexisting subpopulations, one with
synchronized oscillations and the other with unsynchronized oscillations, even though all of …

Experimental observation of chimeras in coupled-map lattices

AM Hagerstrom, TE Murphy, R Roy, P Hövel… - Nature Physics, 2012 - nature.com
Networks of nonlocally coupled phase oscillators can support chimera states in which
identical oscillators evolve into distinct groups that exhibit coexisting synchronous and …

The mathematics behind chimera states

OE Omel'chenko - Nonlinearity, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Chimera states are self-organized spatiotemporal patterns of coexisting coherence and
incoherence. We give an overview of the main mathematical methods used in studies of …

Chimera patterns in networks

A Zakharova - Springer, 2020 - Springer
Synchronization phenomena represent one of the central issues in the modern research, in
particular, on nonlinear dynamics, network science, and statistical physics with applications …

Imperfect chimera states for coupled pendula

T Kapitaniak, P Kuzma, J Wojewoda, K Czolczynski… - Scientific reports, 2014 - nature.com
The phenomenon of chimera states in the systems of coupled, identical oscillators has
attracted a great deal of recent theoretical and experimental interest. In such a state, different …

Chimera states: the existence criteria revisited

GC Sethia, A Sen - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Chimera states, representing a spontaneous breakup of a population of identical oscillators
that are identically coupled, into subpopulations displaying synchronized and …

Chimera states are chaotic transients

M Wolfrum, OE Omel'chenko - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and …, 2011 - APS
Spatiotemporal chaos and turbulence are universal concepts for the explanation of irregular
behavior in various physical systems. Recently, a remarkable new phenomenon, called …