Amplitude Death State Research Articles

Transition among oscillation death, amplitude death, and revival of oscillation in coupled time-delayed systems with diffusivity and common environment

In this paper, we study the transition between different oscillation suppression, revival of oscillation, and oscillatory states in time-delayed chaotic oscillators coupled through simultaneous diffusive and environmental coupling. The present paper, for the first time, reports the occurrence of oscillation death and nontrivial amplitude death states in coupled intrinsic time-delayed systems. Moreover, we explore the revival of the oscillations from these diverse oscillation suppression states. We analyze the stability of the coupled time-delayed system and through extensive numerical investigations, we delineate all the dynamical states in the parameter space. The study is extended to a network of time-delayed oscillators and identical transition scenarios have been obtained. Finally, we support our results in an electronic hardware circuit-based experiment and demonstrate that all the transition scenarios are robust enough in a real world system where the presence of noise, fluctuations, and parameter mismatch are inevitable.

Dynamical analysis of the FitzHugh–Nagumo model with memristive synapse

Understanding the transition mechanism between different activity patterns in realistic neuron models brings forward fundamental challenges for the dynamical systems theory. The knowledge about the mechanisms can present precious predictions and intuitions for determining fundamental principles of neuron functioning. This paper aims to present a dynamic analysis of the FitzHugh–Nagumo neuron model with a memristive synapse. In this article, the effects of memristive synapse's conductance gain, applied current, and the speed of electrical signal propagation along axons and dendrites on the system's behavior and the neuron's membrane potential are investigated. Analyzes are performed by investigating bifurcation and Lyapunov exponent diagrams versus various model parameters. The physiological role of some parameters and the effect of parameter changes on the model behaviors are discussed. The results demonstrate that when no current is applied to the system, the maximum value of membrane potential is larger, and also, a lower memristive synapse conductance gain leads to a larger maximum value of membrane potential. So, it can be concluded that the neuron in an amplitude death state may be triggered and start firing by decreasing the conductance gain or not applying current.

Quenching of oscillation by the limiting factor of diffusively coupled oscillators.

A simple limiting factor in the intrinsic variable of the normal diffusive coupling is known to facilitate the phenomenon of reviving of oscillation [Zou et al., Nat. Commun. 6, 7709 (2015)2041-172310.1038/ncomms8709], where the limiting factor destabilizes the stable steady states, thereby resulting in the manifestation of the stable oscillatory states. In contrast, in this work we show that the same limiting factor can indeed facilitate the manifestation of the stable steady states by destabilizing the stable oscillatory state. In particular, the limiting factor in the intrinsic variable facilitates the genesis of a nontrivial amplitude death via a saddle-node infinite-period limit (SNIPER) bifurcation and symmetry-breaking oscillation death via a saddle-node bifurcation among the coupled identical oscillators. The limiting factor facilities the onset of symmetric oscillation death among the coupled nonidentical oscillators. It is known that the nontrivial amplitude death state manifests via a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation in general. Nevertheless, here we observe the transition to the nontrivial amplitude death via a SNIPER bifurcation. The in-phase oscillatory state loses its stability via the SNIPER bifurcation, resulting in the manifestation of the nontrivial amplitude death state, whereas the out-of-phase oscillatory state loses its stability via a homoclinic bifurcation, resulting in an unstable oscillatory state. Multistabilities among the various dynamical states are also observed. We have also deduced the evolution equationfor the perturbation governing the stability of the observed dynamical states and stability conditions for SNIPER and pitchfork bifurcations. The generic nature of the effect of the limiting factor is also reinforced using two distinct nonlinear oscillators.

Emerging chimera states under nonidentical counter-rotating oscillators.

Frequency plays a crucial role in exhibiting various collective dynamics in the coexisting corotating and counter-rotating systems. To illustrate the impact of counter-rotating frequencies, we consider a network of nonidentical and globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators with additional perturbation. Primarily, we investigate the dynamical transitions in the absence of perturbation, demonstrating that the transition from desynchronized state to cluster oscillatory state occurs through an interesting partial synchronization state in the oscillatory regime. Following this, the system dynamics transits to amplitude death and oscillation death states. Importantly, we find that the observed dynamical states do not preserve the parity (P) symmetry in the absence of perturbation. When the perturbation is increased one can note that the system dynamics exhibits a kind of transition which corresponds to a change from incoherent mixed synchronization to coherent mixed synchronization through a chimera state. In particular, incoherent mixed synchronization and coherent mixed synchronization states completely preserve the P symmetry, whereas the chimera state preserves the P symmetry only partially. To demonstrate the occurrence of such partial symmetry-breaking (chimera) state, we use basin stability analysis and discover that partial symmetry breaking exists as a result of the coexistence of symmetry-preserving and symmetry-breaking behavior in the initial state space. Further, a measure of the strength of P symmetry is established to quantify the P symmetry in the observed dynamical states. Subsequently, the dynamical transitions are investigated in the parametric spaces. Finally, by increasing the network size, the robustness of the chimera state is also inspected, and we find that the chimera state is robust even in networks of larger sizes. We also show the generality of the above results in the related reduced phase. model as well as in other coupled models such as the globally coupled van der Pol and Rössler oscillators.

Nontrivial amplitude death in coupled parity-time-symmetric Liénard oscillators.

We unravel the collective dynamics exhibited by two coupled nonlinearly damped Liénard oscillators exhibiting parity and time symmetry, which is a classical example of the position-dependent damped systems. The coupled system facilitates the onset of limit-cycle and aperiodic oscillations in addition to large-amplitude oscillations. In particular, a nontrivial amplitude death state emerges as a consequence of balanced linear loss and gain of the coupled PT-symmetric systems, where gain in the amplitude of oscillation in one oscillator is exactly balanced by the loss in the other. Further, quasiperiodic attractors exist in the parameter space of a neutrally stable trivial steady state. We deduce analytical critical curves enclosing the stable regions of a nontrivial fixed point, leading to the manifestation of nontrivial amplitude death state, and neutrally stable trivial steady state. The latter loses its stability leading to the emergence of the former. The analytical critical curves exactly match with the simulation boundaries. There is also a reemergence of dynamical states as a function of the coupling strength and multistability among the observed dynamical states. The basin of attraction provides an explanation for the observed probability of dynamical states.

Collective behaviors of mean-field coupled Stuart-Landau limit-cycle oscillators under additional repulsive links.

We study the collective behaviors of a large population of Stuart-Landau limit-cycle oscillators that coupled diffusively and equally with all of the others via the conjugate of the mean field, where the underlying interaction is shown to break the rotational symmetry of the coupled system. In the model, an ensemble of Stuart-Landau oscillators are in fact diffusively coupled via the mean field in the real parts, whereas additional repulsive links are present in the imaginary parts. All the oscillators are linked via the similar state variables, which distinctly differs from the conjugate coupling through dissimilar variables in the previous studies. We show that depending on the strength of coupling and the distribution of natural frequencies, the coupled system exhibits three qualitatively different types of collective stationary behaviors: amplitude death (AD), oscillation death (OD), and incoherent state. Our goal is to analytically characterize the onset of the above three typical macrostates by performing the rigorous linear stability analyses of the corresponding mean-field coupled system. We prove that AD is able to occur in the coupled system with identical frequencies, where the stable coupling interval of AD is found to be independent on the system's size N. When the natural frequencies are distributed according to a general density function, we obtain the analytic equations that govern the exact stability boundaries of AD, OD, and the incoherence for a coupled system in the thermodynamic limit N→∞. All the theoretical predictions are well confirmed via numerical simulations of the coupled system with a specific Lorentzian frequency distribution.

Revival of oscillation and symmetry breaking in coupled quantum oscillators.

Restoration of oscillations from an oscillation suppressed state in coupled oscillators is an important topic of research and has been studied widely in recent years. However, the same in the quantum regime has not been explored yet. Recent works established that under certain coupling conditions, coupled quantum oscillators are susceptible to suppression of oscillations, such as amplitude death and oscillation death. In this paper, for the first time, we demonstrate that quantum oscillation suppression states can be revoked and rhythmogenesis can be established in coupled quantum oscillators by controlling a feedback parameter in the coupling path. However, in sharp contrast to the classical system, we show that in the deep quantum regime, the feedback parameter fails to revive oscillations, and rather results in a transition from a quantum amplitude death state to the recently discovered quantum oscillation death state. We use the formalism of an open quantum system and a phase space representation of quantum mechanics to establish our results. Therefore, our study establishes that the revival scheme proposed for classical systems does not always result in restoration of oscillations in quantum systems, but in the deep quantum regime, it may give counterintuitive behaviors that are of a pure quantum mechanical origin.

Explosive death induced by environmental coupling

In the real world, numerous biological and chemical systems reveal abundant and interesting dynamical behaviors due to the diversity of the ways in which elements interact with each other. Many recent studies have shown that an explosive transition can be found in different dynamical models. However, it is still unclear under which conditions will cause the onset of explosive transition. In this paper, the explosive phenomenon on a networked system where oscillators coupled mutually via a directly diffusion and a common indirectly environment related to every oscillator is reported. An expression of close connection among the system and the dynamic environments' decay rate as well as the intrinsic frequency of each subsystem is observed numerically. In particular, different decay rates could generate explosive death, semi-explosive death, and amplitude death states, respectively. Moreover, a small frequency can exhibit the typical second-order continuous transition from oscillation to death state, and an appropriate and sufficiently large frequency could be more common and more likely to induce the first-order transition. Following this, the theoretical analysis about the critical transition boundaries for different dynamic behaviors is established in such directly-indirectly coupled system for the first time. The results provide a new way for the control mechanism of explosive phenomenon, which is critical for further understanding the underlying patterns of the first-order phase transition on dynamic networked systems.

Emergent rhythms in coupled nonlinear oscillators due to dynamic interactions.

The role of a new form of dynamic interaction is explored in a network of generic identical oscillators. The proposed design of dynamic coupling facilitates the onset of a plethora of asymptotic states including synchronous states, amplitude death states, oscillation death states, a mixed state (complete synchronized cluster and small amplitude desynchronized domain), and bistable states (coexistence of two attractors). The dynamical transitions from the oscillatory to the death state are characterized using an average temporal interaction approximation, which agrees with the numerical results in temporal interaction. A first-order phase transition behavior may change into a second-order transition in spatial dynamic interaction solely depending on the choice of initial conditions in the bistable regime. However, this possible abrupt first-order like transition is completely non-existent in the case of temporal dynamic interaction. Besides the study on periodic Stuart-Landau systems, we present results for the paradigmatic chaotic model of Rössler oscillators and the MacArthur ecological model.

Control of amplitude death by coupling range in a network of fractional-order oscillators

We investigate the oscillating dynamics in a ring of network of nonlocally delay-coupled fractional-order Stuart-Landau oscillators. It is concluded that with the increasing of coupling range, the structures of death islands go from richness to simplistic, nevertheless, the area of amplitude death (AD) state is expanded along coupling delay and coupling strength directions. The increased coupling range can prompt the coupled systems with low frequency to occur AD. When system size varies, the area of death islands changes periodically, and the linear function relationship between periodic length and coupling range can be deduced. Thus, one can modulate the oscillating dynamics by adjusting the relationship between coupling range and system size. Furthermore, the results of numerical simulations are consistent with theoretical analysis.

Symmetry breaking dynamics induced by mean-field density and low-pass filter.

The phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking facilitates the onset of a plethora of nontrivial dynamical states/patterns in a wide variety of dynamical systems. Spontaneous symmetry breaking results in amplitude and phase variations in a coupled identical oscillator due to the breaking of the prevailing permutational/translational symmetry of the coupled system. Nevertheless, the role and the competing interaction of the low-pass filter and the mean-field density parameter on the symmetry breaking dynamical states are unclear and yet to be explored explicitly. The effect of low pass filtering along with the mean-field parameter is explored in conjugately coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators. The dynamical transitions are examined via bifurcation analysis. We show the emergence of a spontaneous symmetry breaking (asymmetric) oscillatory state, which coexists with a nontrivial amplitude death state. Through the basin of attraction, the multi-stable nature of the spontaneous symmetry breaking state is examined, which reveals that the asymmetric distribution of the initial state favors the spontaneous symmetry breaking dynamics, while the symmetric distribution of initial states gives rise to the nontrivial amplitude death state. In addition, the trade-off between the cut-off frequency of the low-pass filter along with the mean-field density induces and enhances the symmetry breaking dynamical states. Global dynamical transitions are discussed as a function of various system parameters. Analytical stability curves corresponding to the nontrivial amplitude death and oscillation death states are deduced.

Towards the revival of oscillation from complete cessation in stochastic systems for application in molecular biology.

Delay and noise are inevitable in complex systems that are common in biochemical networks. The system is often disturbed at various states irrespective of the size (small or large) of delay and noise. Therefore, it is of interest to describe the significance of delay and noise in stochastic Willamowski-Rossler chemical oscillator model using a delay stochastic (having random probability distribution) simulation algorithm. Oscillating dynamics moves to stable fixed point when delay at a fixed magnitude of noise drives the system from oscillating state to stochastic amplitude death state (complete cessation). However, the amplitude death state is induced to a revived oscillating state in stochastic system (which is far from equilibrium state) for noise with a fixed value of delay. Thus, significantly large and small noise induces the dynamics of the system to amplitude death state. Hence, we describe the interplay of delay and noise in stochastic systems for the proper and efficient functioning of the complex system that are frequent in biological networks.

Revival and death of oscillation under mean-field coupling: Interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic filtering.

Mean-field diffusive coupling was known to induce the phenomenon of quenching of oscillations even in identical systems, where the standard diffusive coupling (without mean-field) fails to do so [Phys. Rev. E 89, 052912 (2014)PLEEE81539-375510.1103/PhysRevE.89.052912]. In particular, the mean-field diffusive coupling facilitates the transition from amplitude to oscillation death states and the onset of a nontrivial amplitude death state via a subcritical pitchfork bifurcation. In this paper, we show that an adaptive coupling using a low-pass filter in both the intrinsic and extrinsic variables in the coupling is capable of inducing the counterintuitive phenomenon of reviving of oscillations from the death states induced by the mean-field coupling. In particular, even a weak filtering of the extrinsic (intrinsic) variable in the mean-field coupling facilitates the onset of revival (quenching) of oscillations, whereas a strong filtering of the extrinsic (intrinsic) variable results in quenching (revival) of oscillations. Our results reveal that the degree of filtering plays a predominant role in determining the effect of filtering in the extrinsic or intrinsic variables, thereby engineering the dynamics as desired. We also extend the analysis to networks of mean-field coupled limit-cycle and chaotic oscillators along with the low-pass filters to illustrate the generic nature of our results. Finally, we demonstrate the observed dynamical transition experimentally to elucidate the robustness of our results despite the presence of inherent parameter fluctuations and noise.

Inhomogeneous to homogeneous dynamical states through symmetry breaking dynamics

We explore the dynamical transitions facilitated by the symmetry breaking dynamical states in a directly coupled limit-cycle oscillators, when the oscillators are interacting through attractive and repulsive couplings. Initially, we show that the transition from out-of-phase synchronized (OPS) state to in-phase synchronized (IPS) state is mediated by the onset of symmetry breaking oscillatory (SBO) state using two coupled systems. Similarly, we find the emergence of symmetry breaking oscillation death (AOD) state when the system transits from oscillation death (OD) state to nontrivial amplitude death (NAD) state. Further, we deduce the analytical stability conditions for all the observed dynamical states, namely the IPS, OPS, NAD, OD, including SBO and AOD states. Additionally, the investigation on symmetry breaking dynamics in a ring of unidirectionally coupled oscillators reveals that the breaking of symmetry leads to the traveling chimera (TC) and symmetry breaking incoherent oscillation death states. We also report that the transient nature of TC state obeys a power-law relation near the stable TC region as a function of the coupling strength. From the results, it is evident that the trade-off between the attractive and the repulsive couplings induces the symmetry breaking dynamics in the entire range of the system frequency.

Coexistence of oscillation and quenching states: Effect of low-pass active filtering in coupled oscillators.

Effects of a low-pass active filter (LPAF) on the transition processes from oscillation quenching to asymmetrical oscillation are explored for diffusively coupled oscillators. The low-pass filter part and the active part of LPAF exhibit different effects on the dynamics of these coupled oscillators. With the amplifying active part only, LPAF keeps the coupled oscillators staying in a nontrivial amplitude death (NTAD) and oscillation state. However, the additional filter is beneficial to induce a transition from a symmetrical oscillation death to an asymmetrical oscillation death and then to an asymmetrical oscillation state which is oscillating with different amplitudes for two oscillators. Asymmetrical oscillation state is coexisting with a synchronous oscillation state for properly presented parameters. With the attenuating active part only, LPAF keeps the coupled oscillators in rich oscillation quenching states such as amplitude death (AD), symmetrical oscillation death (OD), and NTAD. The additional filter tends to enlarge the AD domains but to shrink the symmetrical OD domains by increasing the areas of the coexistence of the oscillation state and the symmetrical OD state. The stronger filter effects enlarge the basin of the symmetrical OD state which is coexisting with the synchronous oscillation state. Moreover, the effects of the filter are general in globally coupled oscillators. Our results are important for understanding and controlling the multistability of coupled systems.

Energy feedback and synchronous dynamics of Hindmarsh–Rose neuron model with memristor

We analyze the energy aspects of single and coupled Hindmarsh–Rose (HR) neuron models with a quadratic flux controlled memristor. The energy function for HR neuron with memristor has been derived and the dynamics have been analyzed in the presence of various external stimuli. We found that the bursting mode of the system changes with external forcing. The negative feedback in Hamilton energy function effectively stabilizes the chaotic trajectories and controls the phase space. The Lyapunov exponents have been plotted to verify the stabilization of trajectories. The energy aspects during the synchronous dynamics of electrically coupled neurons have been analyzed. As the coupling strength increases, the average energy fluctuates and stabilizes at the point of synchronization. When the neurons are coupled via chemical synapse, the average energy variations show three important regimes: a fluctuating regime corresponding to the desynchronized, a stable region indicating synchronized and a linearly increasing regime corresponding to the amplitude death states have been observed. The synchronization transitions are verified by plotting the transverse Lyapunov exponents. The proposed method has a large number of applications in controlling coupled chaotic systems and in analyzing the energy change during various metabolic processes.

Conjugate coupling-induced symmetry breaking and quenched oscillations

Spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) is essential and plays a vital role in many natural phenomena, including the formation of the Turing pattern in organisms and complex patterns in brain dynamics. In this work, we investigate whether a set of coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators can exhibit spontaneous symmetry breaking when the oscillators are interacting through dissimilar variables or conjugate coupling. We find the emergence of the SSB state with coexisting distinct dynamical states in the parametric space and show how the system transits from symmetry breaking state to out-of-phase synchronized (OPS) state while admitting multistabilities among the dynamical states. Further, we also investigate the effect of the feedback factor on SSB as well as oscillation quenching states and we point out that the decreasing feedback factor completely suppresses SSB and oscillation death states. Interestingly, we also find that the feedback factor completely diminishes only symmetry breaking oscillation and oscillation death (OD) states but it does not affect the nontrivial amplitude death (NAD) state. Finally, we have deduced the analytical stability conditions for in-phase and out-of-phase oscillations, as well as amplitude and oscillation death states.

Nonlinear dynamics of a non-autonomous network with coupled discrete–continuum oscillators

A network model of a multi-modular floating platform incorporated with a runway structure, viewed as a non-autonomous network with discrete–continuum oscillators, is developed for a general purpose of dynamic analysis. Numerical analysis shows the coupling effect between the two different types of oscillators on various complex dynamics, including sudden leaps, torus motions, beating vibrations, the synergetic effect of phase lock and anti-phase synchronizations. The amplitude death phenomenon, a suppressed weak oscillation state, is studied by using the fundamental solution derived by the averaging method. The parametric domain of the onset of amplitude death is illustrated to show the great significance to the stability design of the floating platform. The effect of the flexural rigidity of the runway on the distribution of amplitude death state is also discussed.

Dynamics of slow and fast systems on complex networks

We study the occurrence of frequency synchronised states with tunable emergent frequencies in a network of connected systems. This is achieved by the interplay between time scales of nonlinear dynamical systems connected to form a network, where out of N systems, m evolve on a slower time scale. In such systems, in addition to frequency synchronised states, we also observe amplitude death, synchronised clusters and multifrequency states. We report an interesting cross over behaviour from fast to slow collective dynamics as the number of slow systems m increases. The transition to amplitude death is analysed in detail for minimal network configurations of 3 and 4 systems which actually form possible motifs of the full network.

Resurgence of oscillation in coupled oscillators under delayed cyclic interaction

This paper investigates the emergence of amplitude death and revival of oscillations from the suppression states in a system of coupled dynamical units interacting through delayed cyclic mode. In order to resurrect the oscillation from amplitude death state, we introduce asymmetry and feedback parameter in the cyclic coupling forms as a result of which the death region shrinks due to higher asymmetry and lower feedback parameter values for coupled oscillatory systems. Some analytical conditions are derived for amplitude death and revival of oscillations in two coupled limit cycle oscillators and corresponding numerical simulations confirm the obtained theoretical results. We also report that the death state and revival of oscillations from quenched state are possible in the network of identical coupled oscillators. The proposed mechanism has also been examined using chaotic Lorenz oscillator.