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The Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function

Chaotic Dynamics 2015-06-19 v1 Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

Abstract

We study synchronization in a Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function, in the thermodynamic limit of large populations. We develop a method for an analytic solution of self-consistent equations describing uniformly rotating complex order parameters, both for single-branch (one possible state of locked oscillators) and multi-branch (two possible values of locked phases) entrainment. We show that synchronous states coexist with the neutrally linearly stable asynchronous regime. The latter has a finite life time for finite ensembles, this time grows with the ensemble size as a power law.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7292,
  title  = {The Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function},
  author = {M. Komarov and A. Pikovsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7292},
  year   = {2015}
}
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