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Volume 102, Number 3, May 2013
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Article Number | 30003 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/102/30003 | |
Published online | 15 May 2013 |
Discrete breathers in integrate-and-fire oscillator networks
1 School of Physics, University of Sydney - NSW, 2006, Australia
2 Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
Received: 9 January 2013
Accepted: 15 April 2013
A number of novel dynamical patterns are found in an integrate-and-fire network, including periodic breathers with single, double, and triple wavefronts, and chaotic breathers. It is found that the periodic breathers always propagate whereas the chaotic ones always remain stationary. A novel route to chaotic breathers through intermittency is identified, as opposed to the paths through quasi-periodicity and period-doubling mostly discussed in dissipative lattice systems. The system is found to display prominent bistability, resulting in “hysteresis” loops in single-oscillator inter-spike intervals as the parameter varies.
PACS: 05.45.-a – Nonlinear dynamics and chaos / 63.20.Pw – Localized modes / 05.45.Xt – Synchronization; coupled oscillators
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