“…Issues that were addressed include transient behaviors associated with chimera states [13][14][15], the effects of time delay [7,10,35], phase lags [18], coupling functions [22][23][24], and the impacts of random perturbation and complex topology of coupling [19,25,33,37]. Experimentally, chimera states have been observed in a system of chemical oscillators [20,26,43], in an optical system [21,45], in coupled mechanical oscillators [27], in electrochemical systems [28,32], and even in quantum systems [44,57]. Natural phenomena associated * huangzg@xjtu.edu.cn with chimera states include unihemispheric sleep [58,59], neural spikes [60,61], and possibly ventricular fibrillations [62].…”