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The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is often used to describe synchronization phenomena in nature. Some applications, e.g., quantum synchronization and rigid-body attitude synchronization, involve high-dimensional Kuramoto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

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

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is known to be largely determined by the spectral and symmetry properties of the interaction network. Here we leverage this relation to study a class of networks for which the threshold…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-12-21 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

A modified Kuramoto model of synchronization in a finite discrete system of locally coupled oscillators is studied. The model consists of N oscillators with random natural frequencies arranged on a ring. It is shown analytically and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-30 J. Ochab , P. F. Góra

We propose a novel model of oscillatory chains that generalizes the contour discrete model of Buslaev nets. The model offers a continuous description of conflicts in system dynamics, interpreted as interactions between neighboring…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-08 Ihor Lubashevsky , Marina Yashina , Vasily Lubashevskiy

The question under which conditions oscillators with slightly different frequencies synchronize appears in various settings. We show that synchronization can be achieved even for harmonic oscillators that are bilinearly coupled via a purely…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-02-01 Juan N. Moreno , Christopher W. Wächtler , Alexander Eisfeld

We show that subsets of interacting oscillators may synchronize in different ways within a single network. This diversity of synchronization patterns is promoted by increasing the heterogeneous distribution of coupling weights and/or…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-04-05 Daniel Malagarriga , Alessandro E. P. Villa , Jordi García-Ojalvo , Antonio J. Pons

This paper presents a nonlinear control framework for steering networks of coupled oscillators toward desired phase-locked configurations. Inspired by brain dynamics, where structured phase differences support cognitive functions, the focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Adnan Tahirovic

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

Synchronization is an ubiquitous phenomenon in dynamical systems of networked oscillators. While it is often a goal to achieve, in some context one would like to decrease it, e.g., although synchronization is essential to the good…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Martin Moriamé , Timoteo Carletti

The emergence of explosive synchronization has been reported as an abrupt transition in complex networks of first-order Kuramoto oscillators. In this Letter, we demonstrate that the nodes in a second-order Kuramoto model, perform a cascade…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-15 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peter J. Menck , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

The celebrated Kuramoto model provides an analytically tractable framework to study spontaneous collective synchronization and comprises globally coupled limit-cycle oscillators interacting symmetrically with one another. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Manoranjani , Shamik Gupta , V. K. Chandrasekar

Synchronization is an essential property of engineered and natural networked dynamical systems. The Kuramoto model of nonlinear synchronization has been widely studied in applications including entrainment of clock cells in brain networks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-01 Dinuka Sahabandu , Andrew Clark , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

We study synchronization of sinusoidally coupled phase oscillators on networks with modular structure and a large number of oscillators in each community. Of particular interest is the hierarchy of local and global synchrony, i.e.,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-01-19 Per Sebastian Skardal , Juan G. Restrepo

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon that is important both in fundamental studies and in technical applications. Here we investigate synchronization in the simplest quantum-mechanical scenario possible, i.e., a quantum-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefan Walter , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Christoph Bruder

We examine the design of the entrainment process for an uncountably infinite collection of coupled phase oscillators that are all subject to the same periodic driving signal. In the absence of coupling, an appropriately designed input can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-10-09 Jordan Snyder , Anatoly Zlotnik , Aric Hagberg

Suppose we are given a system of coupled oscillators on an unknown graph along with the trajectory of the system during some period. Can we predict whether the system will eventually synchronize? Even with a known underlying graph…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-08-25 Hardeep Bassi , Richard Yim , Rohith Kodukula , Joshua Vendrow , Cherlin Zhu , Hanbaek Lyu

A model for synchronization of coupled Nakano's chaotic circuits is studied. The Nakano circuit consists of a simple RLC circuit with a switch voltage-depending reset rule which generates a discontinuous dynamics. Thus, the model that we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-11-15 Ulises Chialva , Walter Reartes

Abrupt changes of behaviour in complex networks can be triggered by a single node. This work describes the dynamical fundamentals of how the behaviour of one node affects the whole network formed by coupled phase-oscillators with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-12-14 Chengwei Wang , Celso Grebogi , Murilo S. Baptista

The Kuramoto model has provided deep insights into synchronization phenomena and remains an important paradigm to study the dynamics of coupled oscillators. Yet, despite its success, the asynchronous regime in the Kuramoto model has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yagmur Kati , Jonas Ranft , Benjamin Lindner