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We consider a system of N phase oscillators having randomly distributed natural frequencies and diagonalizable interactions among the oscillators. We show that in the limit of N going to infinity, all solutions of such a system are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Takashi Nishikawa , Frank C. Hoppensteadt

We investigate phase-locked solutions of a continuum field of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators with distance-dependent propagation delays. Equilibrium relations for both synchronous and traveling wave solutions in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-27 Gautam C Sethia , Abhijit Sen , Fatihcan M Atay

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

Synchronizing phase frustrated Kuramoto oscillators, a challenge that has found applications from neuronal networks to the power grid, is an eluding problem, as even small phase-lags cause the oscillators to avoid synchronization. Here we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-19 Prosenjit Kundu , Chittaranjan Hens , Baruch Barzel , Pinaki Pal

An ensemble of pulse-coupled phase-oscillators is thoroughly analysed in the presence of a mean-field coupling and a dispersion of their natural frequencies. In spite of the analogies with the Kuramoto setup, a much richer scenario is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-06 Ekkehard Ullner , Antonio Politi

Synchrony of neuronal ensembles is believed to facilitate information exchange among cortical regions in the human brain. Recently, it has been observed that distant brain areas which are not directly connected by neural links also…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-23 Yuzhen Qin , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

Time-delayed oscillator networks underlie diverse biological and physical systems, yet standard first-order phase reductions fail to capture their high-dimensional collective dynamics. In this Letter, we develop a universal second-order…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-12 L. A. Smirnov , V. O. Munyayev , M. I. Bolotov , I. Belykh

We present a rigorous mathematical framework establishing the equivalence of four classical notions of synchronization full phase-locking, phase-locking, frequency synchronization, and order parameter synchronization in generalized Kuramoto…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Chengbin Zhu

By spreading phases on the unit circle, desynchronization algorithm is a powerful tool to achieve round-robin scheduling, which is crucial in applications as diverse as media access control of communication networks, realization of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

We study the dynamics of a system of coupled oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, by including the features of both thermal noise, parametrized by a temperature, and inertial terms, parametrized by a moment of inertia. For a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

The Kuramoto model is a classical mathematical model in the field of non-linear dynamical systems that describes the evolution of coupled oscillators in a network that may reach a synchronous state. The relationship between the network's…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Pedro Abdalla , Afonso S. Bandeira , Clara Invernizzi

We study synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators in strongly modular networks in which the structure of the network inside each community is averaged. We find that the dynamics of the interacting communities can be described as an ensemble…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-19 Per Sebastian Skardal , Juan G. Restrepo

In this letter we discuss a method for generating synchrony-optimized coupling architectures of Kuramoto oscillators with a heterogeneous distribution of native frequencies. The method allows us to relate the properties of the coupling…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Brede

We study systems of identical coupled oscillators introducing a distribution of delay times in the coupling. For arbitrary network topologies, we show that the frequency and stability of the fully synchronized states depend only on the mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-04 Lucas Wetzel , Luis G. Morelli , Andrew C. Oates , Frank Julicher , Saul Ares

This paper studies the effects of distributed delay coupling on the dynamics in a system of non-identical coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators. For uniform and gamma delay distribution kernels, conditions for amplitude death are obtained in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-22 Y. N. Kyrychko , K. B. Blyuss , E. Schoell

This study examines the complex interplay between inertia and time delay in regular rotor networks within the framework of the second-order Kuramoto model. By combining analytical and numerical methods, we demonstrate that intrinsic time…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-19 Esmaeil Mahdavi , Mina Zarei , Philipp Hövel , Farhad Shahbazi

We study systems of Kuramoto oscillators, driven by one pacemaker, on $d$-dimensional regular topologies like linear chains, rings, hypercubic lattices and Cayley-trees. For the special cases of next-neighbor and infinite-range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Radicchi , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Networks of phase oscillators can serve as dense associative memories if they incorporate higher-order coupling beyond the classical Kuramoto model's pairwise interactions. Here we introduce a generalized Kuramoto model with combined…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-30 Jona Nagerl , Natalia G. Berloff

Phase synchronization in unidirectionally coupled Ikeda time-delay systems exhibiting non-phase-coherent hyperchaotic attractors of complex topology with highly interwoven trajectories is studied. It is shown that in this set of coupled…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-24 D. V. Senthilkumar , M. Lakshmanan , J. Kurths

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