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Sparse repulsive coupling enhances synchronization in complex networks

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Through the last years, different strategies to enhance synchronization in complex networks have been proposed. In this Letter, we show that the synchronization in a small-world network of attractively coupled non-identical neurons is strongly improved by adding a tiny fraction of phase-repulsive couplings. By a purely topological analysis that does not depend on the dynamical model, we link the emerging dynamical behavior to the structural properties of the sparsely coupled repulsive network.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0605115,
  title  = {Sparse repulsive coupling enhances synchronization in complex networks},
  author = {I. Leyva and I. Sendiña-Nadal and J. A. Almendral and M. A. F. Sanjuán},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0605115},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures