Emergence of coupling-induced oscillations and broken symmetries in heterogeneously driven nonlinear reaction networks

Autor: Varsha Sreenivasan, Shakti N. Menon, Sitabhra Sinha
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017)
Scientific Reports
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1603.06734
Popis: Many natural systems including the brain comprise coupled non-uniformly stimulated elements. In this paper we show that heterogeneously driven networks of excitatory-inhibitory units exhibit striking collective phenomena, including spontaneous oscillations upon coupling. On varying the coupling strength a novel transition is seen wherein the pattern symmetries of stimulated and unstimulated groups undergo mutual exchange. The system exhibits coexisting chaotic and non-chaotic attractors - an intriguing result in view of earlier reports of varying degrees of chaoticity in the brain.
Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures + 4 pages supplementary information
Databáze: OpenAIRE