Ferrofluid Droplet Chains in Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystals.

Dispersing ferrofluids in liquid crystals (LCs) produces unique systems which possess magnetic functionality and novel phenomena such as droplet chaining. This work reports the formation of ferrofluid droplet chains facilitated by the topological defects within the LC director field, induced by the dispersed ferrofluid. The translational and rotational motion of these chains could be controlled via application of external magnetic fields.

Stimulus-induced dynamical states in an adaptive network with symmetric adaptation.

We consider an adaptive network of identical phase oscillators with the symmetric adaptation rule for the evolution of the connection weights under the influence of an external force. We show that the adaptive network exhibits a plethora of self-organizing dynamical states such as the two-cluster state, multiantipodal clusters, splay cluster, splay chimera, forced entrained state, chimera state, bump state, coherent, and incoherent states in the two-parameter phase diagrams. The intriguing structures of the frequency clusters and instantaneous phases of the oscillators characterize the distinct self-organized synchronized and partial synchronized states.

Higher-order interaction induced chimeralike state in a bipartite network.

We report higher-order coupling induced stable chimeralike state in a bipartite network of coupled phase oscillators without any time-delay in the coupling. We show that the higher-order interaction breaks the symmetry of the homogeneous synchronized state to facilitate the manifestation of symmetry breaking chimeralike state. In particular, such symmetry breaking manifests only when the pairwise interaction is attractive and higher-order interaction is repulsive, and vice versa.