FIG. 2.
A community-structured network of coupled oscillators exhibits metastable chimera-like behavior. (a) We study a network formed by 8 communities of 32 Kuramoto oscillators each, with strong intra-community coupling and weak inter-community coupling and dynamics parameterized by a phase lag β. (b) Time series of synchrony values Rc for each community (c=1,…,8) show that the behavior of the system changes drastically with β. For low β, all communities remain desynchronized; for high β, all communities synchronize; and it is for intermediate β that the system behaves as a metastable chimera, with different communities entering intermittent periods of internal synchrony.

A community-structured network of coupled oscillators exhibits metastable chimera-like behavior. (a) We study a network formed by 8 communities of 32 Kuramoto oscillators each, with strong intra-community coupling and weak inter-community coupling and dynamics parameterized by a phase lag β. (b) Time series of synchrony values Rc for each community (c=1,,8) show that the behavior of the system changes drastically with β. For low β, all communities remain desynchronized; for high β, all communities synchronize; and it is for intermediate β that the system behaves as a metastable chimera, with different communities entering intermittent periods of internal synchrony.

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