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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 9: Focus Session: Critical Transitions in Society, Economy, and Nature (joint session SOE/DY)

SOE 9.4: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 29. März 2023, 11:15–11:30, ZEU 260

Synchronization-desynchronization transitions in neural networks — •Anna Zakharova — BCCN Berlin, Germany

Synchronization of neurons is believed to play a crucial role in the brain under normal conditions, for instance, in the context of cognition and learning, and under pathological conditions such as Parkinson's disease or epileptic seizures. In the latter case, when synchronization represents an undesired state, understanding the mechanisms of desynchronization is of particular importance. In other words, the possible transitions from synchronized to desynchronized regimes and vice versa should be investigated. It is known that such dynamical transitions involve the formation of partial synchronization patterns, where only one part of the network is synchronized. The most prominent example is given by chimera states [1]. In the present talk, we discuss an alternative scenario. We show how the so-called solitary states in networks of coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons can lead to the emergence of chimera states. By performing bifurcation analysis of a suitable reduced system in the thermodynamic limit we demonstrate how solitary states, after emerging from the synchronous state, become chaotic in a classical period-doubling cascade [2].

[1] A. Zakharova, Chimera Patterns in Networks: Interplay between Dynamics, Structure, Noise, and Delay, Understanding Complex Systems (Springer, Cham, 2020) doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-21714-3

[2] L. Schülen, A. Gerdes, M. Wolfrum, A. Zakharova, Solitary routes to chimera states, Phys. Rev. E Letter 106, L042203 (2022) doi: 10.1103/physreve.106.l042203