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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

To understand how certain dynamical behaviors can or cannot persist as the underlying network grows is a problem of increasing importance in complex dynamical systems as well as sustainability science and engineering. We address the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-07 Yafeng Wang , Huawei Fan , Ying-Cheng Lai , Xingang Wang

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

The synchronous dynamics of an array of excitable oscillators, coupled via a generic graph, is studied. Non homogeneous perturbations can grow and destroy synchrony, via a self-consistent instability which is solely instigated by the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-23 Maxime Lucas , Duccio Fanelli , Timoteo Carletti , Julien Petit

The synchronization stability of a complex network system of coupled phase oscillators is discussed. In case the network is affected by disturbances, a stochastic linearized system of the coupled phase oscillators may be used to determine…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-31 Kaihua Xi , Zhen Wang , Aijie Cheng , Hai Xiang Lin , Jan H. van Schuppen , Chenghui Zhang

We study fully synchronized (coherent) states in complex networks of chaotic oscillators, reviewing the analytical approach of determining the stability conditions for synchronizability and comparing them with numerical criteria. As an…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Pedro G. Lind , Jason A. C. Gallas , Hans J. Herrmann

We investigate the transition to synchronization in adaptive multilayer networks with higher-order interactions both analytically and numerically in the presence of phase frustration ($\beta$). The higher order topology consists of pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-03 Anath Bandhu Das , Sangita Dutta , Pinaki Pal

We consider an extension of Kuramoto's model of coupled phase oscillators where oscillator pairs interact with different strengths. When the coupling coefficient of each pair can be separated into two different factors, each one associated…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel H. Paissan , Damian H. Zanette

We consider a pair of collectively oscillating networks of dynamical elements and optimize their internetwork coupling for efficient mutual synchronization based on the phase reduction theory developed in Ref. [H. Nakao, S. Yasui, M. Ota,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-11 Hiroya Nakao , Katsunori Yamaguchi , Shingo Katayama , Tatsuo Yanagita

Many natural systems including the brain comprise coupled non-uniformly stimulated elements. In this paper we show that heterogeneously driven networks of excitatory-inhibitory units exhibit striking collective phenomena, including…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-23 Varsha Sreenivasan , Shakti N. Menon , Sitabhra Sinha

The production process of integrated electronic circuitry inherently leads to large heterogeneities on the component level. For electronic clock networks this implies detuned intrinsic frequencies and differences in coupling strength and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-09-04 Nirmal Punetha , Lucas Wetzel

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fundamental process in both natural and artificial networks. While much work has investigated the asymptotic stability of the synchronous solution, the fundamental question of the transient…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-22 Amirhossein Nazerian , Joseph D Hart , Matteo Lodi , Francesco Sorrentino

In principle, while coupled limit cycle oscillators can overcome mismatch in intrinsic rates and match their frequencies, but zero phase lag synchronization is just achievable in the limit of zero mismatch, i.e., with identical oscillators.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2013-02-12 Sadjad Sadeghi , Alireza Valizadeh

Network couplings of oscillatory large-scale systems, such as the brain, have a space-time structure composed of connection strengths and signal transmission delays. We provide a theoretical framework, which allows treating the spatial…

This work introduces a methodology for studying synchronization in adaptive networks with heterogeneous plasticity (adaptation) rules. As a paradigmatic model, we consider a network of adaptively coupled phase oscillators with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Rico Berner , Serhiy Yanchuk

We study a network of coupled logistic maps whose interactions occur with a certain distribution of delay times. The local dynamics is chaotic in the absence of coupling and thus the network is a paradigm of a complex system. There are two…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-03 Marcelo Ponce , C. Masoller , Arturo C. Marti

We investigate the emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled chaotic macroeconomic systems. Each node represents an economy characterized by three key variables savings, gross domestic product (GDP), and foreign capital inflows.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-26 Thierry Njougouo , Fernando Fagundes Ferreira , Diego Garlaschelli

Oscillator networks display intricate synchronization patterns. Determining their stability typically requires incorporating the symmetries of the network coupling. Going beyond analyses that appeal only to a network's automorphism group,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-14 J. Emenheiser , A. Salova , J. Snyder , J. P. Crutchfield , R. M. D'Souza

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

We investigate how correlations between the diversity of the connectivity of networks and the dynamics at their nodes affect the macroscopic behavior. In particular, we study the synchronization transition of coupled stochastic phase…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-22 Bernard Sonnenschein , Francesc Sagués , Lutz Schimansky-Geier