“…One proven modification is the inclusion of non-local effects of the geometry of the system that has been shown to lead to a co-existence of partially synchronized and partially asynchronized states of oscillators as a steady-state solution. Such states, addressed as chimera states, are the subject of recent theoretical and experimental studies (Kuramoto and Battogtokh, 2002;Abrams and Strogatz, 2004;Abrams et al, 2008;Ko and Ermentrout, 2008;Omel'chenko et al, 2008;Sethia et al, 2008;Sheeba et al, 2009;Laing, 2009a, b;Laing et al, 2012;Martens et al, 2013;Yao et al, 2013;Rothkegel and Lehnertz, 2014;Kapitaniak et al, 2014;Pazó and Montbrió, 2014;Panaggio and Abrams, 2014;Zhu et al, 2014;Gupta et al, 2014;Vasudevan and Cavers, 2014a, b). We focus our present study on defining a Kuramoto model with a phase lag that would accommodate the existence of chimera states.…”