Spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking in nonlinearly coupled van der Pol oscillators

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12139MaRDI QIDQ2822882zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jessica J. Jutley, Alejandro B. Aceves

Publication date 5 October 2016

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1111/sapm.12139

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic methodsbreakingnonlinearly coupled van der Pol oscillatorsspontaneous Parity-time symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10)

Review text

In this paper, by using asymptotic methods, the authors show analytically and numerically the presence of spontaneous parity-time symmetry breaking. Then, they extend the theory to the case of an infinite chain composed of such van der Pol oscillators.

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