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Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nonequilibrium systems. One intriguing example found in every-day life is lifts installed next to each other, that move closely and arrive almost simultaneously during a busy time. However, the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-02 Mitsusuke Tarama , Sakurako Tanida

We discuss the emergence of spontaneous synchronization for an open spin-pair system interacting only via a common environment. Under suitable conditions, and even in the presence of detuning between the natural precession frequencies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 G. L. Giorgi , F. Plastina , G. Francica , R. Zambrini

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has been recognized as a key enabler and feature of future wireless networks. In the existing works analyzing the performances of ISAC, discrete-time systems were commonly assumed, which, however,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zhouyuan Yu , Xiaoling Hu , Chenxi Liu , Mugen Peng

The collective behavior of numerous animal species, including insects, exhibits scale-free behavior indicative of the critical (second-order) phase transition. Previous research uncovered such phenomena in the behavior of honeybees, most…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-17 Ivan Shpurov , Tom Froese

A model for autonomous feedback control of particle transport through a large number of channels is introduced. Interactions among the particles can lead to a strong suppression of fluctuations in the particle number statistics. Within a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-25 Tobias Brandes

Understanding a complex system entails capturing the non-trivial collective phenomena that arise from interactions between its different parts. Information theory is a flexible and robust framework to study such behaviours, with several…

Phase-transitionlike behavior is found to occur in globally coupled systems of finite number of elements, and its theoretical explanation is provided. The system studied is a population of globally pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire cells…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-nosuke Teramae

We consider quantum many-body dynamics under quantum measurements, where the measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPs) occur when changing the frequency of the measurement. In this work, we consider the robustness of the MIP for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Takaaki Minato , Koudai Sugimoto , Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

The motor cortex (MC) is often described as an autonomous dynamical system during movement execution. In an autonomous dynamical system, flexible movement generation depends on reconfiguring the initial conditions, which then unwind along…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-10 Fei Yin , Charles Guan , Tyson Aflalo , Jorge Gamez , Kelsie Pejsa , Emily Rosario , Charles Liu , Ausaf Bari , Richard Andersen

We propose a theoretical framework to study the cooperative behavior of dynamically coupled oscillators (DCOs) that possess dynamical interactions. Then, to understand synchronization phenomena in networks of interneurons which possess…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Toru Aonishi , Masato Okada

We consider a chain of trapped ions to interact with each other via long-range interactions. This system can be used to simulate the long-range Ising model. We study the dynamics of quantum coherence of a single spin in the chain, where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 H. T. Ng , Jing-Ning Zhang

Transitions in the dynamics of complex systems can be characterized by changes in the synchronization behavior of their components. Taking the human cardio-respiratory system as an example and using an automated procedure for screening the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-13 Ronny Bartsch , Jan W. Kantelhardt , Thomas Penzel , Shlomo Havlin

Microbiomes, which are collections of interacting microbes in an environment, often substantially impact the environmental patches or living hosts that they occupy. In microbiome models, it is important to consider both the local dynamics…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Michael Johnson , Mason A. Porter

Networks of interacting, communicating subsystems are common in many fields, from ecology, biology, epidemiology to engineering and robotics. In the presence of noise and uncertainty, inter- actions between the individual components can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-01 Ira B. Schwartz , Klimka Szwaykowska , Thomas W. Carr

Statistical models and information theory have provided a useful set of tools for studying music from a quantitative perspective. These approaches have been employed to generate compositions, analyze structural patterns, and model cognitive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-30 Linus Chen-Plotkin , Suman S. Kulkarni , Dani S. Bassett

Limit cycles are self-sustained, closed trajectories in phase space representing (un)-stable, periodic behavior in nonlinear dynamical systems. They underpin diverse natural phenomena, from neuronal firing patterns to engineering…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-15 Sandip Saha , Suvam Pal , Dibakar Ghosh

Complex coherent dynamics is present in a wide variety of neural systems. A typical example is the voltage transitions between up and down states observed in cortical areas in the brain. In this work, we study this phenomenon via a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-19 Jorge F. Mejias , Hilbert J. Kappen , Joaquin J. Torres

The response of a cold atom gas with contact interactions to a smoothly varying external harmonic confinement in the non-adiabatic regime is studied. The time variation of the angular frequency is varied such that the system is, for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-27 Seyed Ebrahim Gharashi , D. Blume

Recent measurements of durations of non-equilibrium processes provide valuable information on microscopic mechanisms and energetics. Comprehensive theory for corresponding experiments so far is well developed for single-particle systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-04 David Voráč , Philipp Maass , Artem Ryabov

Collective improvisation in dance provides a rich natural laboratory for studying emergent coordination in coupled neuro-motor systems. Here, we investigate how training shapes spontaneous synchronization patterns in both movement and brain…