Resonance Clustering in Globally Coupled Electrochemical Oscillators with External Forcing

Abstract

Experiments are carried out with a globally coupled, externally forced population of limit-cycle electrochemical oscillators with an approximately unimodal distribution of heterogeneities. Global coupling induces mutually entrained (at frequency ${\omega }_1$) states; periodic forcing produces forced-entrained (${\omega }_{\mathrm{F}}$) states. As a result of the interaction of mutual and forced entrainment, resonant cluster states occur with equal spacing of frequencies that have discretized frequencies following a resonance rule ${\omega }_n\cong n{\omega }_1-(n-1){\omega }_{\mathrm{F}}$. Resonance clustering requires an optimal, intermediate global coupling strength; at weak coupling the clusters have smaller sizes and do not strictly follow the resonance rule, while at strong coupling the population behaves similar to a single, giant oscillator.

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