Multistable dissipative breathers and collective states in SQUID Lieb metamaterials

N. Lazarides, G. P. Tsironis

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    Abstract

    A SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) metamaterial on a Lieb lattice with nearest-neighbor coupling supports simultaneously stable dissipative breather families which are generated through a delicate balance of input power and intrinsic losses. Breather multistability is possible due to the peculiar snaking flux amplitude-frequency curve of single dissipative-driven SQUIDs, which for relatively high sinusoidal flux field amplitudes exhibits several stable and unstable solutions in a narrow frequency band around resonance. These breathers are very weakly interacting with each other, while multistability regimes with a different number of simultaneously stable breathers persist for substantial intervals of frequency, flux field amplitude, and coupling coefficients. Moreover, the emergence of chimera states as well as temporally chaotic states exhibiting spatial homogeneity within each sublattice of the Lieb lattice is demonstrated. The latter of the states emerge through an explosive hysteretic transition resembling explosive synchronization that has been reported before for various networks of oscillators.

    Original languageBritish English
    Article number012207
    JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
    Volume98
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 12 Jul 2018

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