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Limit-cycle oscillators are the basic building blocks for synchronization; yet, the notion of a quantum limit cycle has remained unclear. Here, we study quantum limit cycles and synchronization in the presence of continuous heterodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder

Synchronizing a few-level quantum system is of fundamental importance to understanding synchronization in deep quantum regime. Whether a two-level system, the smallest quantum system, can be synchronized has been theoretically debated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-09 Liyun Zhang , Zhao Wang , Yucheng Wang , Junhua Zhang , Zhigang Wu , Jianwen Jie , Yao Lu

In nature, instances of synchronisation abound across a diverse range of environments. In the quantum regime, however, synchronisation is typically observed by identifying an appropriate parameter regime in a specific system. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Joseph Tindall , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Berislav Buča , Dieter Jaksch

Spontaneous synchronization between coupled periodic systems occur in a wealth of classical physical setups. Here, we show theoretically that the phase of two distinct quantum harmonic oscillators spontaneously when they are strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Loic Henriet

We study synchronization of two dissipatively coupled Van der Pol oscillators in the quantum regime. Due to quantum noise strict frequency locking is absent and is replaced by a crossover from weak to strong frequency entrainment. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 Stefan Walter , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Christoph Bruder

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

We study, both analytically and numerically, the dynamics of mechanical oscillators kept in motion by a feedback force, which is generated electronically from a signal produced by the oscillators themselves. This kind of self-sustained…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-15 Sebastian I. Arroyo , Damian H. Zanette

Synchronization is the process of achieving identical dynamics among coupled identical units. If the units are different from each other, their dynamics cannot become identical; yet, after transients, there may emerge a functional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-09 Aditya Tandon , Malte Schröder , Manu Mannattil , Marc Timme , Sagar Chakraborty

Using the methods of quantum trajectories we study numerically the phenomenon of quantum synchronization in a quantum dissipative system with periodic driving. Our results show that at small values of Planck constant $\hbar$ the classical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. V. Zhirov , D. L. Shepelyansky

Classically, the tendency towards spontaneous synchronization is strongest if the natural frequencies of the self-oscillators are as close as possible. We show that this wisdom fails in the deep quantum regime, where the uncertainty of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-23 Niels Lörch , Simon E. Nigg , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Rakesh P. Tiwari , Christoph Bruder

It is well known that a system with two or more levels exists a limit cycle and can be synchronized with an external drive when the system and the drive are directly coupled. One might wonder if a system can synchronize with the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Guo Meitong , Niu Xiangyu , Yi Xuexi , Wang Wei

We study synchronization in a two-node network built out of the smallest possible self-sustained oscillator: a spin 1. We first demonstrate that phase locking between the quantum oscillators can be achieved, even for limit cycles that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Alexandre Roulet , Christoph Bruder

We study the phenomenon of quantum synchronization from the viewpoint of quantum metrology. By interpreting quantum self-sustained oscillators as dissipative quantum sensors, we develop a framework to characterize several aspects of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Gaurav M. Vaidya , Simon B. Jäger , Athreya Shankar

Shared upstream dynamical processes are frequently the source of common inputs in various physical and biological systems. However, due to finite signal transmission speeds and differences in the distance to the source, time shifts between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-03-10 Ehsan Bolhasani , Yousef Azizi , Alireza Valizadeh , Matjaz Perc

We report the first experimental demonstration of quantum synchronization. This is achieved by performing a digital simulation of a single spin-$1$ limit-cycle oscillator on the quantum computers of the IBM Q System. Applying an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Martin Koppenhöfer , Christoph Bruder , Alexandre Roulet

Two oscillators coupled to a two-level system which in turn is coupled to an infinite number of oscillators (reservoir) are considered, bringing to light the occurrence of synchronization. A detailed analysis clarifies the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 B. Militello , H. Nakazato , A. Napoli

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

Some of the most enduring questions in physics--including the quantum measurement problem and the quantization of gravity--involve the interaction of a quantum system with a classical environment. Two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rachael M. McDermott , Ian H. Redmount

Experimental exploration of synchronization in scalable oscillator micro systems has unfolded a deeper understanding of networks, collective phenomena, and signal processing. Cavity optomechanical devices have played an important role in…

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon found in many non-equilibrium systems. Much recent interest in this area has overlapped with the study of complex networks, where a major focus is determining how a system's connectivity patterns…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-19 Jason Hindes , Christopher R. Myers