TY - JOUR A1 - Omel'chenko, Oleh A1 - Ocampo-Espindola, Jorge Luis A1 - Kiss, István Z. T1 - Asymmetry-induced isolated fully synchronized state in coupled oscillator populations T2 - Physical review : E, Statistical, nonlinear and soft matter physics N2 - A symmetry-breaking mechanism is investigated that creates bistability between fully and partially synchronized states in oscillator networks. Two populations of oscillators with unimodal frequency distribution and different amplitudes, in the presence of weak global coupling, are shown to simplify to a modular network with asymmetrical coupling. With increasing the coupling strength, a synchronization transition is observed with an isolated fully synchronized state. The results are interpreted theoretically in the thermodynamic limit and confirmed in experiments with chemical oscillators. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60337 SN - 2470-0045 SN - 2470-0053 VL - 104 IS - 2 PB - American Physical Society CY - Melville, NY ER -