Chimera patterns in three-dimensional locally coupled systems

Abstract

The coexistence of coherent and incoherent domains, namely the appearance of chimera states, is being studied extensively in many contexts of science and technology since the past decade, though the previous studies are mostly built on the framework of one-dimensional and two-dimensional interaction topologies. Recently, the emergence of such fascinating phenomena has been studied in three-dimensional (3D) grid formation while considering only the nonlocal interaction. Here we study the emergence and existence of chimera patterns in a three dimensional network of coupled Stuart-Landau limit cycle oscillators and Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal oscillators with local (nearest neighbour) interaction topology. The emergence of different types of spatiotemporal chimera patterns is investigated by taking two distinct nonlinear interaction functions. We provide appropriate analytical explanations in the 3D grid of network formation and the corresponding numerical justifications are given. We extend our analysis on the basis of Ott-Antonsen reduction approach in the case of Stuart-Landau oscillators containing infinite number of oscillators. Particularly, in Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal network the existence of non-stationary chimera states are characterized by instantaneous strength of incoherence and instantaneous local order parameter. Besides, the condition for achieving exact neuronal synchrony is obtained analytically through a linear stability analysis. The different types of collective dynamics together with chimera states are mapped over a wide range of various parameter spaces.