Chaos in symmetric phase oscillator networks

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Beitragende

  • Christian Bick - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Marc Timme - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Danilo Paulikat - , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Dirk Rathlev - , Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Peter Ashwin - , University of Exeter (Autor:in)

Abstract

Phase-coupled oscillators serve as paradigmatic models of networks of weakly interacting oscillatory units in physics and biology. The order parameter which quantifies synchronization so far has been found to be chaotic only in systems with inhomogeneities. Here we show that even symmetric systems of identical oscillators may not only exhibit chaotic dynamics, but also chaotically fluctuating order parameters. Our findings imply that neither inhomogeneities nor amplitude variations are necessary to obtain chaos; i.e., nonlinear interactions of phases give rise to the necessary instabilities.

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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer244101
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang107
Ausgabenummer24
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 9 Dez. 2011
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

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ORCID /0000-0002-5956-3137/work/142242496

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