Dynamics of the Chain of Oscillators with Long-Range Interaction From Synchronization to Ch.pdf

a r X i v : 0 7 0 7 .3 9 4 1 v 1 [ n l i n .C D ] 2 6 J u l 2 0 0 7 Dynamics of the Chain of Oscillators with Long-Range Interaction: From Synchronization to Chaos G.M. Zaslavsky Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, USA Department of Physics, New York University, 2-4 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003, USA M. Edelman Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, USA V.E. Tarasov Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer St., New York, NY 10012, USA Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia (Dated: February 1, 2008) Abstract We consider a chain of nonlinear oscillators with long-range interaction of the type 1/l1+α, where l is a distance between oscillators and 0 α 2. In the continues limit the system’s dynamics is described by the Ginzburg-Landau equation with complex coefficients. Such a system has a new parameter α that is responsible for the complexity of the medium and that strongly influences possible regimes of the dynamics. We study different spatial-temporal patterns of the dynamics depending on α and show transitions from synchronization of the motion to broad- spectrum oscillations and to chaos. 1 A chain of nonlinear interacting oscillators is a model of the wide-spread in- vestigation of different physical phenomena such as synchronized behavior of the system, bifurcations to different regimes, spatial-temporal turbulent or chaotic dynamics, different instabilities, appearance of defects, and many others. The long range interaction between oscillators leads to a new qualitative dynamics and thermodynamics. Our consideration is related to the power-law long-range interaction that makes it possible to find new regimes of the system and to es- tablish a link of the corresponding equations of motion to the equations with fractional derivatives. I. INT