New paper, with Zerong Guo, Zonghua Liu, Shuguang Guan, Stefano Boccaletti and Jie Zhou.

Everyone knows about chimera states. We show a new mechanism for the emergence of chimeras that is specific of higher-order interactions. Interestingly, this mechanism is somewhat analogous to what happens in some proteins with intrinsic disorder (which we showed a couple of years ago), so we called it intrinsic frustration.

#mathematics #physics #science #HigherOrderNetworks #synchronization #DynamicalSystems #ChimeraStates #chimeras #frustration #IntrinsicDisorder

Synchrony with chaos – #firefly swarms embody in nature what mathematics predicted https://theconversation.com/synchrony-with-chaos-blinking-lights-of-a-firefly-swarm-embody-in-nature-what-mathematics-predicted-193984

#ChimeraStates among synchronous #fireflies https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add6690

"Wait a little longer and among the illuminated chorus, something else appears: Some discordant flashers secede and continue off-beat. They blink at the same pace but keep a resolute delay with their conformist peers. Could this be evidence of a phenomenon predicted by mathematical equations but never seen in nature?"