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Synchronization and firing death in the dynamics of two interacting excitable units with heterogeneous signals

D. Hennig and L. Schimansky-Geier

  • Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Newtonstrasse 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany

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Phys. Rev. E 76, 026208 – Published 13 August, 2007

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.026208

Abstract

We study the response of two coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo systems to heterogeneous external inputs. The latter, modeled by periodic parametric stimuli, force the uncoupled excitable systems into a regime of chaotic firing. Due to parameter dispersion involved in randomly distributed amplitudes and/or phases of the external forces the units are nonidentical and their firing events will be asynchronous. Interest is focused on mutually synchronized spikings arising through the coupling. It is demonstrated that the phase difference of the two external forces crucially affects the onset of spike synchronization as well as the resulting degree of synchrony. For large phase differences the degree of spike synchrony is constricted to a maximal possible value and cannot be enhanced upon increasing the coupling strength. We even found that overcritically strong couplings lead to suppression of firing so that the units perform synchronous subthreshold oscillations. This effect, which we call “firing death,” is due to a coupling-induced modification of the excitation threshold impeding spiking of the units. In clear contrast, when only the amplitudes of the forces are distributed perfect spike synchrony is achieved for sufficiently strong coupling.

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Phys. Rev. E 76, 026208– Published 13 August, 2007
  • Received 29 May 2007

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