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We study the onset of synchronization in lattices of limit cycle oscillators with long-range coupling by means of numerical simulations. In this regime the critical coupling strength depends on the system size and interaction range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. S. O. Massunaga , M. Bahiana

Oscillatory networks subjected to noise are broadly used to model physical and technological systems. Due to their nonlinear coupling, such networks typically have multiple stable and unstable states that a network might visit due to noise.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-27 Jason Hindes , Ira B. Schwartz , Melvyn Tyloo

The integration of renewable energy sources in the course of the energy transition is accompanied by grid decentralization and fluctuating power feed-in characteristics. This raises new challenges for power system stability and design. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 Katrin Schmietendorf , Joachim Peinke , Rudolf Friedrich , Oliver Kamps

We investigate synchronization in a Kuramoto-like model with nearest neighbour coupling. Upon analyzing the behaviour of individual oscillators at the onset of complete synchronization, we show that the time interval between bursts in the…

How do the combined effects of phase frustration, noise, and higher-order interactions govern synchronization in globally coupled heterogeneous Kuramoto oscillators? To address this question, we investigate a globally coupled network of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 Asutosh Anand Singh , Chandrakala Meena

We have compared the phase synchronization transition of the second order Kuramoto model on 2D lattices and on large, synthetic power grid networks, generated from real data. The latter are weighted, hierarchical modular networks. Due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-15 Géza Ódor , Bálint Hartmann

Coupled oscillator networks underlie many biological systems, from cardiac cycles to circadian rhythms. Phase-reduced models such as the Kuramoto model have been widely used to study synchronization, but they typically assume that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Naghmeh Akhavan , Ruby Kim

Coupled nonlinear oscillators, e.g., Kuramoto models, are commonly used to analyze electrical power systems. The cage model from statistical mechanics has also been used to describe the dynamics of synchronously connected generation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-14 Marios Zarifakis , Declan J. Byrne , William T. Coffey , Yuri P. Kalmykov , Serguey V. Titov , Stephen J. Carrig

Spontaneous synchronization is a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-23 Stefano Gherardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo

A novel regime of synchronization, called remote synchronization, where the peripheral nodes form a phase synchronized cluster not including the hub, was recently observed in star motifs. We show the existence of a more general dynamical…

The high-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Kuramoto paradigm has been an essential step in bringing about a more faithful depiction of the dynamics of real-world systems. Despite the multi-dimensional nature of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-08-27 Chongzhi Wang , Haibin Shao , Dewei Li

In this paper, inspired by the idea that many real networks are composed by different sorts of communities, we investigate the synchronization property of oscillators on such networks. We identify the communities by the intrinsic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-11-06 Ming Zhao , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

By a model of coupled phase oscillators, we show analytically how synchronization in {\em non-identical} complex networks can be enhanced by introducing a proper gradient into the couplings. It is found that, by pointing the gradient from…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-11-10 Xingang Wang , Shuguang Guan , Ying-Cheng Lai , Choy Heng Lai

The Kuramoto model is a canonical framework for analyzing phase synchronization, yet its utility is restricted to the vicinity of the oscillator's unperturbed limit cycle. Here, we present a method to construct coupled-oscillator models…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-06 Koichiro Yawata , Hiroya Nakao

We analyze two classes of Kuramoto models on spheres that have been introduced in previous studies. Our analysis is restricted to ensembles of identical oscillators with the global coupling. In such a setup, with an additional assumption…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-02 Aladin Crnkić , Vladimir Jaćimović , Marijan Marković

Partial, instead of complete, synchronization has been widely observed in various networks including, in particular, brain networks. Motivated by data from human brain functional networks, in this technical note, we analytically show that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-09-23 Yuzhen Qin , Yu Kawano , Oscar Portoles , Ming Cao

The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is often used to describe synchronization phenomena in nature. Some applications, e.g., quantum synchronization and rigid-body attitude synchronization, involve high-dimensional Kuramoto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

Recently there is a surge of interest in network geometry and topology. Here we show that the spectral dimension plays a fundamental role in establishing a clear relation between the topological and geometrical properties of a network and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-02-20 Ana P. Millán , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi

Dynamics of complex systems are often driven by interactions that extend beyond pairwise links, underscoring the need to establish a correspondence between interpretable system parameters and emergent phenomena in hypergraph-based networks.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-10 Dhrubajyoti Biswas , Arpan Banerjee

We investigate a generalized Kuramoto phase-oscillator model with Hebb-like couplings that evolve according to a stochastic differential equation on various topologies. Numerical simulations show that even with identical oscillators, there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-15 A. Isakov , L. Mahadevan