Extended Data Fig. 8: Modeling with a weak coupling showing changes in the final state depending on the starting conditions. | Nature Materials

Extended Data Fig. 8: Modeling with a weak coupling showing changes in the final state depending on the starting conditions.

From: Coupled liquid crystalline oscillators in Huygens’ synchrony

Extended Data Fig. 8

a, Example of non-periodic oscillations modeled with the coupling stiffness parameter kcoupling = 5 × 10−19 kg.m2.s−2 and the coupling damping parameter dcouplin. = 7.29 × 10−19 kg.m2.s−1, with the starting conditions \(\theta _1^0 = 3.1\,{\mathrm{rad}}\) and \(\theta _2^0 = 2.3\,{\mathrm{rad}}\) showing non-periodic oscillations and b, with the starting conditions \(\theta _1^0 = 2.9\,{\mathrm{rad}}\) and \(\theta _2^0 = 2.6\,{\mathrm{rad}}\) showing in-phase oscillation.

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