Figure 3
Different final states associated with a multicluster chimera state.
For the ring network system of size N = 256, spatiotemporal patterns of the order parameter R, instantaneous phase ϕ and short-term average velocity v for: (a) a stable 4-cluster chimera state, (b) a transient 3-cluster chimera state evolving into a globally synchronous state and (c,d) transient 3-cluster and 6-cluster chimera states evolving into a 6π-twisted state, respectively. The phase ϕ at several instants and the corresponding short-term average phase velocity v (temporal average over a time window with length 104) are displayed to demonstrate the dynamical processes, e.g., global synchronization at t2 in (b), 6-cluster chimera states at t1 and the twisted states at t3 in (c,d). The results in (a–d) are obtained from Eq. (1) for η = 0.43, 0.48, 0.55 and 0.54, respectively.
