Death by delay

Steven H. Strogatz ()
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Steven H. Strogatz: the Center for Applied Mathematics, Kimball Hall, Cornell University

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6691, 316-317

Abstract: Oscillations occur naturally in many systems (in heart muscles, fireflies, and Josephson junctions, for example). When many oscillators are coupled together, complicated collective behaviour such as wave propagation can emerge. A new phenomenon has been predicted for some sets of oscillators, when there is a time-delay in their coupling: they can drive each other to stop oscillating.

Date: 1998
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