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Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

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

Synchronization is an important phenomenon in a wide variety of systems comprising interacting oscillatory units, whether natural (like neurons, biochemical reactions, cardiac cells) or artificial (like metronomes, power grids, Josephson…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-13 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The synchronization phenomenon is ubiquitous in nature. In ensembles of coupled oscillators, explosive synchronization is a particular type of transition to phase synchrony that is first-order as the coupling strength increases. Explosive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-23 Inmaculada Leyva , Cristina Masoller

We introduce the concept of synchronization bombs as large networks of coupled heterogeneous oscillators that operate in a bistable regime and abruptly transit from incoherence to phase-locking (or vice-versa) by adding (or removing) one or…

Characterizing the in uence of network properties on the global emerging behavior of interacting elements constitutes a central question in many areas, from physical to social sciences. In this article we study a primary model of disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-08 Luis Carlos Garcidel Molino , Khashayar Pakdaman , Jonathan Touboul , Gilles Wainrib

The synchronization of human networks is essential for our civilization, and understanding the motivations, behavior, and basic parameters that govern the dynamics of human networks is important in many aspects of our lives. Human ensembles…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-26 Shir Shahal , Ateret Wurzberg , Inbar Sibony , Hamootal Duadi , Elad Shniderman , Daniel Weymouth , Nir Davidson , Moti Fridman

The relation between large-scale brain structure and function is an outstanding open problem in neuroscience. We approach this problem by studying the dynamical regime under which realistic spatio-temporal patterns of brain activity emerge…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-05-27 Ariel Haimovici , Enzo Tagliazucchi , Pablo Balenzuela , Dante R. Chialvo

In this paper, we study the synchronization of identical Kuramoto phase oscillators under cumulative stochastic damage to the edges of networks. We analyze the capacity of coupled oscillators to reach a coherent state from initial random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-31 Leidy Katherin Eraso Hernández , Alejandro P. Riascos

An interesting problem in synchronization is the study of coupled oscillators, wherein oscillators with different natural frequencies synchronize to a common frequency and equilibrium phase difference. In this paper, we investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Vishaal Krishnan , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Somashekhar S. Hiremath

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

In heterogeneous networks of coupled oscillators, phase frustration typically prevents the emergence of synchronization in the Sakaguchi--Kuramoto (SK) model. In this study, we propose an analytical framework to overcome this barrier and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-22 Subhasish Chowdhury , Sangita Dutta , Pitambar Khanra , Swarup Kumar Laha , Prosenjit Kundu

We study the emergence of synchronization in scale-free networks by considering the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators. The natural frequencies of oscillators are assumed to be correlated with their degrees and a time delay is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-03-07 Thomas Kauê Dal'Maso Peron , Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues

The Kuramoto model with mixed signs of couplings is known to produce a traveling-wave synchronized state. Here, we consider an abrupt synchronization transition from the incoherent state to the traveling-wave state through a long-lasting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-22 Jinha Park , B. Kahng

Synchronization processes are ubiquitous despite the many connectivity patterns that complex systems can show. Usually, the emergence of synchrony is a macroscopic observable, however, the microscopic details of the system, as e.g. the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-08 Lluis Arola-Fernandez , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

We study a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity in interaction. Under a week force, an oscillator tends to follow the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-28 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

A paradigmatic framework to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization is provided by the Kuramoto model comprising a large collection of limit-cycle oscillators of distributed frequencies that are globally coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-08 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

Many real-world complex systems rely on cluster synchronization to function properly. A cluster of nodes exhibits synchronous behavior while others behave erratically. Predicting the emergence of these clusters and understanding the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-09-19 Rodrigo M. Corder , Zheng Bian , Tiago Pereira , Antonio Montalban

Synchronization is crucial for the correct functionality of many natural and man-made complex systems. In this work we characterize the formation of synchronization patterns in networks of Kuramoto oscillators. Specifically, we reveal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Tiberi , Chiara Favaretto , Mario Innocenti , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

Synchronization is an important collective phenomenon in interacting oscillatory agents. Many functional features of the brain are related to synchronization of neurons. The type of synchronization transition that may occur (explosive vs.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-03-18 Mahsa Khoshkhou , Afshin Montakhab