Birth and death of chimera: Interplay of delay and multiplexing

The chimera state with co-existing coherent and incoherent dynamics has recently attracted a lot of attention due to its wide applicability. We investigate non-locally coupled identical chaotic maps with delayed interactions in the multiplex network framework and find that an interplay of delay and multiplexing brings about an enhanced or suppressed appearance of the chimera state depending on the distribution as well as the parity of delay values in the layers. Additionally, we report a layer chimera state with the existence of one layer exhibiting coherent and another layer incoherent dynamical evolution. The rich variety of dynamical behavior demonstrated here can be used to gain further insight into the real-world networks which inherently possess such multi-layer architecture with delayed interactions. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2016