Chimera complexity.

Brezetsky, Serhiy; Jaros, Patrycja; Levchenko, Roman; Kapitaniak, Tomasz; Maistrenko, Yuri · Phys Rev E · 2021

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Abstract

We show an amazing complexity of the chimeras in small networks of coupled phase oscillators with inertia. The network behavior is characterized by heteroclinic switching between multiple saddle chimera states and riddling basins of attractions, causing an extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and parameters. Additional uncertainty is induced by the presumable coexistence of stable phase-locked states or other stable chimeras as the switching trajectories can eventually tend to them. The system dynamics becomes hardly predictable, while its complexity represents a challenge in the network sciences.