  In coupled chaotic bistable systems such as Lorenz and Chua oscillators,
two-phase domains corresponding to the two lobes of the strange attractor are
formed. The dynamics of each domain is confined to one lobe and typically
exhibits one of the two types of behavior: oscillation death or nearly periodic
oscillations. We elucidate the role of intrinsic broad time scales on the
confinement and the oscillation death.
