In Greek mythology, the chimera was a three-headed, fire-breathing monster---partly lion, partly goat, partly serpent. In the nonlinear dynamics community, however, the chimera state refers to a similarly incongruent pattern, coexistence of coherence and incoherence in networks of coupled oscillators. The chimera phenomenon has fundamental implications that the processes occurring in nature favor a less symmetric configuration, although the underlying principles can be symmetric. Such chimera states have attracted great interest and have been the subject of intensive theoretical...

In Greek mythology, the chimera was a three-headed, fire-breathing monster---partly lion, partly goat, partly serpent. In the nonlinear dynamics community, however, the chimera state refers to a similarly incongruent pattern, coexistence of coherence and incoherence in networks of coupled oscillators. The chimera phenomenon has fundamental implications that the processes occurring in nature favor a less symmetric configuration, although the underlying principles can be symmetric. Such chimera states have attracted great interest and have been the subject of intensive theoretical...