How does a periodic rotating wave emerge from high-dimensional chaos in a ring of coupled chaotic oscillators?
A route to typical rotating waves from high-dimensional chaos is investigated in diffusively coupled chaotic Rössler oscillators. By increasing the coupling from zero, a high-dimensional spatiotemporal chaos changes into a coherent state, which is periodic in time and well ordered in space, through consecutive transitions. A crossover transition from spatially random chaos to spatially ordered chaos with phase locking and orientational equality (for two directions) breaking is a crucial step for establishing the typical spatial order of the rotating wave.
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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, P. O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy. yzhang@ictp.trieste.it
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