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We study the dynamics of networks with coupling delay, from which the connectivity changes over time. The synchronization properties are shown to depend on the interplay of three time scales: the internal time scale of the dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Otti D'Huys , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Manuel Jiménez , Elka Korutcheva , Wolfgang Kinzel

Small-world networks are networks in which the graphical diameter of the network is as small as the diameter of random graphs but whose nodes are highly clustered when compared with the ones in a random graph. Examples of small-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hazer Inaltekin , Mung Chiang , Harold Vincent Poor

Does the assignment order of a fixed collection of slightly distinct subsystems into given communication channels influence the overall ensemble behavior? We discuss this question in the context of complex networks of non-identical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-09-30 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Ricardo Luiz Viana

Networks of coupled phase oscillators are one of the most studied dynamical systems with numerous applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Their behaviour is often characterized by the emergence of various partially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-27 Oleh E. Omel'chenko

The stability analysis of synchronization in time-varying higher-order networked structures (simplicial complexes) is one of the challenging problem due to the presence of time-varying group interactions. In this context, most of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-11 Md Sayeed Anwar , Dibakar Ghosh

Adaptive dynamical networks are ubiquitous in real-world systems. This paper aims to explore the synchronization dynamics in networks of adaptive oscillators based on a paradigmatic system of adaptively coupled phase oscillators. Our…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-09-16 Mengke Wei , Andreas Amann , Oleksandr Burylko , Xiujing Han , Serhiy Yanchuk , Jürgen Kurths

A new family of graphs, {\it entangled networks}, with optimal properties in many respects, is introduced. By definition, their topology is such that optimizes synchronizability for many dynamical processes. These networks are shown to have…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Luca Donetti , Pablo I. Hurtado , Miguel A. Munoz

We study the synchronization of coupled maps on a variety of networks including regular one and two dimensional networks, scale free networks, small world networks, tree networks, and random networks. For small coupling strengths nodes show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sarika Jalan , R. E. Amritkar

A network of coupled time-varying systems, where individual nodes are interconnected through links, is a modeling framework widely used by many disciplines. For identical nodes displaying a complex behavior known as chaos, clusters of nodes…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 G. Tirabassi , R. de Palma Aristides , C. Masoller , D. J. Gauthier

Group synchronization arises when two or more synchronization patterns coexist in a network formed of oscillators of different types, with the systems in each group synchronizing on the same time-evolution, but systems in different groups…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Shirin Panahi , Francesco Sorrentino

Spontaneous synchronization is a general phenomenon in which a large population of coupled oscillators of diverse natural frequencies self-organize to operate in unison. The phenomenon occurs in physical and biological systems over a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Shamik Gupta , Romain Bachelard , Tarcisio Rocha Filho

Complex networks exhibit a wide range of collective dynamic phenomena, including synchronization, diffusion, relaxation, and coordination processes. Their asymptotic dynamics is generically characterized by the local Jacobian, graph…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-17 Carsten Grabow , Stefan Grosskinsky , Jürgen Kurths , Marc Timme

We investigate the collective dynamics of bursting neurons on clustered network. The clustered network is composed of subnetworks each presenting a small-world property, and in a given subnetwork each neuron has a probability to be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-12-22 C. A. S. Batista , R. V. Nunes , A. M. Batista , R. L. Viana , S. R. Lopes , T. Pereira

A rationale is provided for the emergence of synchronization in a system of coupled oscillators in a stick-slip motion. The single oscillator has a limit cycle in a region of the state space for each parameter set beyond the supercritical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-17 Nozomi Sugiura , Takane Hori , Yoji Kawamura

Networks in nature are often formed within a spatial domain in a dynamical manner, gaining links and nodes as they develop over time. We propose a class of spatially-based growing network models and investigate the relationship between the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-12-30 Ari Zitin , Alex Gorowora , Shane Squires , Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Michelle Girvan , Edward Ott

The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 An-swol Hu , Sergio D. Servetto

Correlations between intrinsic dynamics and local topology have become a new trend in the study of synchronization in complex networks. In this paper, we investigate in this paradigm the influence of topology on dynamics of networks made up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

The propensity for synchronization is studied in a complex network of asymmetrically coupled units, where the asymmetry in a given link is determined by the relative age of the involved nodes. In growing scale-free networks synchronization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong-Uk Hwang , Mario Chavez , Andreas Amann , Stefano Boccaletti

Small-world networks provide an interesting framework for studying the interplay between regular and random graphs, where links are located in a regular and random way, respectively. On one hand, the random links make the model to obey some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-12 M. Ostilli

We consider an inhomogeneous small-world network (SWN) composed of inhibitory short-range (SR) and long-range (LR) interneurons. By varying the fraction of LR interneurons $p_{long}$, we investigate the effect of network architecture on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-17 Sang-Yoon Kim , Woochang Lim