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 . (b) Time series of synchrony values for each community () show that the behavior of the system changes drastically with . For low , all communities remain desynchronized; for high , all communities synchronize; and it is for intermediate that the system behaves as a metastable chimera, with different communities entering intermittent periods of internal synchrony.