About the Authors

Alok Ranjan Nayak

Affiliation Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

T. K. Shajahan

Affiliation Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

A. V. Panfilov

Affiliation Department of Physics and Astronomy, Gent University, Gent, Belgium

Rahul Pandit

rahul@physics.iisc.ernet.in

Affiliations Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India

Competing Interests

This study received funding from Microsoft Research (India). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ARN RP. Performed the experiments: ARN. Analyzed the data: ARN AVP RP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARN TKS AVP RP. Wrote the paper: ARN RP.