Stable amplitude chimera states in a network of locally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators

TL;DR

This paper explores various stable and transient amplitude chimera states in a network of locally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators, analyzing their stability under parameter changes, initial perturbations, and using Floquet theory.

Contribution

It demonstrates the transition from transient to stable amplitude chimera states with parameter variation and analyzes their stability through perturbations and Floquet theory.

Findings

Stable amplitude chimera states can be achieved with sufficient coupling strength.

Small initial perturbations lead to larger stable chimera states.

Floquet theory confirms stability of chimera and other states.

Abstract

We investigate the occurrence of collective dynamical states such as transient amplitude chimera, stable amplitude chimera and imperfect breathing chimera states in a \textit{locally coupled} network of Stuart-Landau oscillators. In an imperfect breathing chimera state, the synchronized group of oscillators exhibits oscillations with large amplitudes while the desynchronized group of oscillators oscillates with small amplitudes and this behavior of coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized oscillations fluctuates with time. Then we analyze the stability of the amplitude chimera states under various circumstances, including variations in system parameters and coupling strength, and perturbations in the initial states of the oscillators. For an increase in the value of the system parameter, namely the nonisochronicity parameter, the transient chimera state becomes a stable chimera state for a sufficiently large value of coupling strength. In addition, we also analyze the stability of these states by perturbing the initial states of the oscillators. We find that while a small perturbation allows one to perturb a large number of oscillators resulting in a stable amplitude chimera state, a large perturbation allows one to perturb a small number of oscillators to get a stable amplitude chimera state. We also find the stability of the transient and stable amplitude chimera states as well as traveling wave states for appropriate number of oscillators using Floquet theory. In addition, we also find the stability of the incoherent oscillation death states.