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Volume 99, Number 6, September 2012
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Article Number | 68006 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/99/68006 | |
Published online | 05 October 2012 |
Synchronised firing induced by network dynamics in excitable systems
1 Chair of Systems Design, D-MTEC, ETH Zurich - Kreuzplatz 5, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland
2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Centro Atómico Bariloche 8400 Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina
(a) tessonec@ethz.ch
Received: 29 June 2012
Accepted: 30 August 2012
We study the collective dynamics of an ensemble of coupled identical FitzHugh-Nagumo elements in their excitable regime. We show that collective firing, where all the elements perform their individual firing cycle synchronously, can be induced by random changes in the interaction pattern. Specifically, on a sparse evolving network where, at any time, each element is connected with at most one partner, collective firing occurs for intermediate values of the rewiring frequency. Thus, network dynamics can play the role of noise and connectivity in inducing this kind of self-organised behaviour in highly disconnected systems which, otherwise, would not allow for the spreading of coherent evolution.
PACS: 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems / 05.45.Xt – Synchronization; coupled oscillators / 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees
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