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In 1665, Christiaan Huygens reported the observation of the synchronization of two pendulum clocks hanged on the wall of his workshop. After synchronization, the clocks swung exactly in the same frequency and $180^{o}$ out of phase --…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-04-22 Rui Dilao

This paper investigates the synchronization of three identical oscillators, or clocks, suspended from a common rigid support. We consider scenarios where each clock interacts with the other two, achieving synchronization through small…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Emma D'Aniello , Henrique M. Oliveira

In 1665, Huygens observed that two pendulum clocks hanging from the same board became synchronized in antiphase after hundreds of swings. On the other hand, modern experiments with metronomes placed on a movable platform show that they…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-24 Guillermo H Goldsztein , Alice N Nadeau , Steven H Strogatz

This study examines the synchronization of three identical oscillators arranged in an array and coupled by small impacts, wherein each oscillator interacts solely with its nearest neighbor. The synchronized state, which is asymptotically…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Jorge Buescu , Emma D'Aniello , Henrique M. Oliveira

The synchronization of two pendulum clocks hanging from a wall was first observed by Huygens during the XVII century. This type of synchronization is observed in other areas, and is fundamentally different from the problem of two clocks…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Henrique M. Oliveira , Luís V. Melo

We study two models of connected pendulum clocks synchronizing their oscillations, a phenomenon originally observed by Huygens. The oscillation angles are assumed to be small so that the pendulums are modeled by harmonic oscillators, clock…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Vojin Jovanovic , Sergiy Koshkin

Weakly coupled oscillators adjust their dynamics to work in unison: they synchronize. This ubiquitous phenomenon is observed for oscillating pendulum, electronic devices, as well as clapping crowds or flashing fireflies. In effect,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Yaocheng Li , Ivan Palaia , Jinzi Mac Huang , Antoine Aubret , Jeremie Palacci

In this letter, we present an elegant method to build and maintain an anti-phase configuration of two nonlinear oscillators with different natural frequencies and dynamics described by the sinusoidal phase-reduced model. The anti-phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Dionisis Stefanatos , Jr-Shin Li

The mechanism of phase synchronization between uncoupled limit-cycle oscillators induced by common external impulsive forcing is analyzed. By reducing the dynamics of the oscillator to a random phase map, it is shown that phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-13 H. Nakao , K. Arai , K. Nagai , Y. Tsubo , Y. Kuramoto

We study the phase synchronization between collective rhythms of fully locked oscillator groups. For weakly interacting groups of two oscillators with global sinusoidal coupling, we analytically derive the collective phase coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-05-01 Yoji Kawamura

We propose a quantum analogue of the Huygens clock, in which the phases of two spins achieve synchronization through their interaction with a shared environment. The environment functions analogously to the escapement mechanism in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Bhavay Tyagi , Hao Li , Eric R. Bittner , Andrei Piryatinski , Carlos Silva-Acuna

We study the synchronization phenomena in a system of globally coupled oscillators with time delay in the coupling. The self-consistency equations for the order parameter are derived, which depend explicitly on the amount of delay. Analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Y. Choi , H. J. Kim , D. Kim , H. Hong

Nonlinear oscillators can mutually synchronize when they are driven by common external impulses. Two important scenarios are (i) synchronization resulting from phase locking of each oscillator to regular periodic impulses and (ii)…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Shigefumi Hata , Takeaki Shimokawa , Kensuke Arai , Hiroya Nakao

An oscillatory system can have clockwise and anticlockwise senses of rotation. We propose a general rule how to obtain counter-rotating oscillators from the definition of a dynamical system and then investigate synchronization. A type of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-28 S. K. Bhowmick , Dibakar Ghosh , Syamal K. Dana

The mechanism of synchronization of oscillations in two identical coupled flow systems has beenstudied. The time (past the coupling onset) during which a synchronous oscillation regime is establisheddepends on the oscillation phase…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. A. Koronovskii , A. E. Hramov , I. A. Khromova

The phenomenon of phase synchronization was evidenced in the 17th century by Huygens while observing two pendulums of clocks leaning against the same wall. This phenomenon has more recently appeared as a widespread phenomenon in nature, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 Jawher Jerray , Laurent Fribourg , Étienne André

We study the manifestation of antiphase synchronization in a system of n Rossler Oscillators coupled through a dynamic environment. When the feedback from system to environment is positive (negative) and that from environment to system is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-12-22 G. Ambika , Sheekha Verma

In principle, while coupled limit cycle oscillators can overcome mismatch in intrinsic rates and match their frequencies, but zero phase lag synchronization is just achievable in the limit of zero mismatch, i.e., with identical oscillators.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-12 Sadjad Sadeghi , Alireza Valizadeh

The present paper explores the synchronization scenario of hyperchaotic time-delayed electronic oscillators coupled indirectly via a common environment. We show that depending upon the coupling parameters a hyperchaotic time-delayed system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-23 Tanmoy Banerjee , Debabrata Biswas

Synchronization of two or more self-sustained oscillators is a well-known and studied phenomenon, appearing both in natural and designed systems. In some cases, the synchronized state is undesired, and the aim is to destroy synchrony by…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-14 Erik T. K. Mau , Michael Rosenblum
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