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Synchronized oscillations are of critical functional importance in many biological systems. We show that such oscillations can arise without centralized coordination in a disordered system of electrically coupled excitable and passive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-03 Rajeev Singh , Jinshan Xu , Nicolas Garnier , Alain Pumir , Sitabhra Sinha

Occurrence of strong or mass synchronization of a large number of neuronal populations in the brain characterizes its pathological states. In order to establish an understanding of the mechanism underlying such pathological synchronization…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2011-01-10 V. K. Chandrasekar , Jane H. Sheeba , M. Lakshmanan

Both quantum phase transitions and thermodynamic phase transitions are probably induced by fluctuations, yet the specific mechanism through which fluctuations cause phase transitions remains unclear in existing theories. This paper…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-13 Yonglong Ding

We study optimal synchronization of networks of coupled phase oscillators. We extend previous theory for optimizing the synchronization properties of undirected networks to the important case of directed networks. We derive a generalized…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-06-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor , Jie Sun

Recent studies have shown that synchronizability of complex networks can be significantly improved by asymmetric couplings, and increase of coupling gradient is always in favor of network synchronization. Here we argue and demonstrate that,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Xingang Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Cangtao Zhou , Choy Heng Lai

Coupled oscillator networks often display transitions between qualitatively different phase-locked solutions -- such as synchrony and rotating wave solutions -- following perturbation or parameter variation. In the limit of weak coupling,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Jorge L. Ocampo-Espindola , István Z. Kiss , Christian Bick , Kyle C. A. Wedgwood

Neural synchronization is believed to be critical for many brain functions. It frequently exhibits temporal variability, but it is not known if this variability has a specific temporal patterning. This study explores these…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-03-11 Sungwoo Ahn , Leonid L. Rubchinsky

Spontaneous formation of clusters of synchronized spiking in a structureless ensemble of equal stochastically perturbed excitable neurons with delayed coupling is demonstrated for the first time. The effect is a consequence of a subtle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-04 Igor Franovic , Kristina Todorovic , Nebojsa Vasovic , Nikola Buric

We study the transition from incoherence to coherence in large networks of coupled phase oscillators. We present various approximations that describe the behavior of an appropriately defined order parameter past the transition, and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan G. Restrepo , Brian R. Hunt , Edward Ott

The dynamics of power-grid networks is becoming an increasingly active area of research within the physics and network science communities. The results from such studies are typically insightful and illustrative, but are often based on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-09-24 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Synchronization is of central importance in power distribution, telecommunication, neuronal, and biological networks. Many networks are observed to produce patterns of synchronized clusters, but it has been difficult to predict these…

We investigate quantum synchronization phenomenon within the complex network constituted by coupled optomechanical systems and prove the unknown identical quantum states can be shared or distributed in the quantum network even though the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Wenlin Li , Chong Li , Heshan Song

A widely held assumption on network dynamics is that similar components are more likely to exhibit similar behavior than dissimilar ones and that generic differences among them are necessarily detrimental to synchronization. Here, we show…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-22 Yuanzhao Zhang , Jorge L. Ocampo-Espindola , István Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

Synchronization commonly occurs in many natural and man-made systems, from neurons in the brain to cardiac cells to power grids to Josephson junction arrays. Transitions to or out of synchrony for coupled oscillators depend on several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-10 Hui Wu , Mukesh Dhamala

Most real-world networks display not only a heterogeneous distribution of degrees, but also a heterogeneous distribution of weights in the strengths of the connections. Each of these heterogeneities alone has been shown to suppress…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Adilson E. Motter , Changsong Zhou , Juergen Kurths

Spontaneous explosive is an abrupt transition to collective behavior taking place in heterogeneous networks when the frequencies of the nodes are positively correlated to the node degree. This explosive transition was conjectured to be…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-11-26 Vladimir Vlasov , Yong Zou , Tiago Pereira

In this paper, we investigate the factors that affect the synchronization of coupled oscillators on networks. By using the edge-intercrossing method, we keep the degree distribution unchanged to see other statistical properties' effects on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Wang , Huanwen Tang , Tao Zhou , Zhilong Xiu

By introducing extrinsic noise as well as intrinsic uncertainty into a network with stochastic events, this paper studies the dynamics of the resulting Markov random network and characterizes a novel phenomenon of intermittent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Arno Berger , Hong Qian , Shirou Wang , Yingfei Yi

Recently, the first-order synchronization transition has been studied in systems of coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the synchronization in the frequency-weighted Kuramoto model with all-to-all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-18 Can Xu , Yuting Sun , Jian Gao , Tian Qiu , Zhigang Zheng , Shuguang Guan

The control of complex systems and network-coupled dynamical systems is a topic of vital theoretical importance in mathematics and physics with a wide range of applications in engineering and various other sciences. Motivated by recent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas