| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 44, Number 5, December I 1998
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 559 - 564 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00509-0 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Self-organization of coupled nonlinear oscillators through impurities
1
Nonlinear Optics Group, Air Force Research Laboratory, 3550 Aberdeen Ave., SE Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776 USA
2
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot 76100, Israel
3
Physics Department, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas - P.O. Box 2208, 71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Received:
6
April
1998
Accepted:
9
October
1998
The effects of impurities introduced into a lattice of strongly coupled oscillators are studied. Contrary to our expectations, a single impurity can control the chaotic behavior of a long array of chaotic oscillators and bring about complete synchronization. This effect appears to be independent of the length of the chain, obtaining self-organization for chains as long as 512 lattice sites. By appropriately introducing more that one impurity, if needed, longer chains of oscillators can be tamed.
PACS: 05.30.-d – Quantum statistical mechanics / 05.40.+j – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, and Brownian motion / 73.20.Dx – Electron states in low-dimensional structures (superlattices, quantum well structures and multilayers)
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