Amplitude death through a Hopf bifurcation in coupled electrochemical oscillators: Experiments and simulations

Abstract

Amplitude death was observed in experiments with two coupled periodic electrochemical oscillators without time delay. Simulation results confirmed that the observed amplitude death was obtained via a Hopf bifurcation. The two oscillators must have a minimum discrepancy and both be near their individual Hopf bifurcations for amplitude death to occur. Phase drift (coexisting with unstable asymmetric phase-locked solutions), amplitude death, and in-phase synchronization were observed in both the experiments and simulations as coupling strength was increased. In addition, the simulations showed that a stable asymmetric phase-locked solution exists between the phase drift and amplitude death regions.