We explore the behaviour of an ensemble of chaotic oscillators coupled only
to an external chaotic system, whose intrinsic dynamics may be similar or
dissimilar to the group. Counter-intuitively, we find that a dissimilar
external system manages to suppress the intrinsic chaos of the oscillators to
fixed point dynamics, at sufficiently high coupling strengths. So, while
synchronization is induced readily by coupling to an identical external system,
control to fixed states is achieved only if the external system is dissimilar.
We quantify the efficacy of control by estimating the fraction of random
initial states that go to fixed points, a measure analogous to basin stability.
Lastly, we indicate the generality of this phenomenon by demonstrating
suppression of chaotic oscillations by coupling to a common hyper-chaotic
system. These results then indicate the easy controllability of chaotic
oscillators by an external chaotic system, thereby suggesting a potent method
that may help design control strategies
We report various modes of synchrony observed for a population of two, three and four pentanol drops in a rectangular channel at the air-water interface. Initially, the autonomous oscillations of...
We study the dynamics of a ring of patches with vegetation–prey–predator populations, coupled through interactions of the Lotka–Volterra type. We find that the system yields aperiodic, recurrent and rare explosive bursts of predator density in a few isolated spatial patches from time to time. Further, the global predator biomass also exhibits sudden uncorrelated occurrences of large deviations from the mean as the coupled system evolves. The maximum value of the predator population in a patch, as well as the maximum value of the predator biomass, increases with coupling strength. These trends are further corroborated by fits to Generalized Extreme Value distributions, where the location and scale factor of the distribution increases markedly with coupling strength, indicating the crucial role of coupling interactions in the generation of extreme events. These results indicate how occurrences of extremely large predator populations can emerge in coupled population dynamics, and in a more general context they suggest a generic class of deterministic nonlinear systems that can naturally exhibit extreme events
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