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Self-organized criticality is characterized by power law correlations in the non-equilibrium steady state of externally driven systems. A dynamical system proposed here self-organizes itself to a critical state with no characteristic size…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Santanu Sinha , Vimal Kishore , S. B. Santra

In many real-world systems, partial synchronization is the dominant dynamical regime and, in systems such as the brain, is often accompanied by collective oscillations in which multiple overlapping modes interact to produce complex rhythmic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-03 Ali Seif , Mina Zarei

Recent work has shown that the synchronization process in lattices of self-sustained (phase and limit-cycle) oscillators displays universal scale-invariant behavior previously studied in the physics of surface kinetic roughening. The type…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-14 Ricardo Gutierrez , Rodolfo Cuerno

How self-organized networks develop, mature and degenerate is a key question for sociotechnical, cyberphysical and biological systems with potential applications from tackling violent extremism through to neurological diseases. So far, it…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-05 M. Zheng , Z. Cao , Y. Vorobyeva , P. Manrique , C. Song , N. F. Johnson

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

Finding the conditions that foster synchronization in networked oscillatory systems is critical to understanding a wide range of biological and mechanical systems. However, the conditions proved in the literature for synchronization in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Zahra Aminzare , Biswadip Dey , Elizabeth N. Davison , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Various functions of a network of excitable units can be enhanced if the network is in the `critical regime', where excitations are, on average, neither damped nor amplified. An important question is how can such networks self-organize to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-02-19 Yogesh S. Virkar , Juan G. Restrepo , Woodrow L. Shew , Edward Ott

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

Real-world networks in technology, engineering and biology often exhibit dynamics that cannot be adequately reproduced using network models given by smooth dynamical systems and a fixed network topology. Asynchronous networks give a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-02-07 Christian Bick , Michael Field

We study systems of identical coupled oscillators introducing a distribution of delay times in the coupling. For arbitrary network topologies, we show that the frequency and stability of the fully synchronized states depend only on the mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-04 Lucas Wetzel , Luis G. Morelli , Andrew C. Oates , Frank Julicher , Saul Ares

Synchronization is a fundamental dynamical state of interacting oscillators, observed in natural biological rhythms and in the brain. Global synchronization which occurs when non-linear or chaotic oscillators placed on the nodes of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Lorenzo Giambagli , Riccardo Muolo , Ginestra Bianconi

The recent discovery of universal principles underlying many complex networks occurring across a wide range of length scales in the biological world has spurred physicists in trying to understand such features using techniques from…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sitabhra Sinha

Biological systems rely on robust internal information processing: Survival depends on highly reproducible dynamics of regulatory processes. Biological information processing elements, however, are intrinsically noisy (genetic switches,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Konstantin Klemm , Stefan Bornholdt

Empirical estimation of critical points at which complex systems abruptly flip from one state to another is among the remaining challenges in network science. However, due to the stochastic nature of critical transitions it is widely…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-09 B. Podobnik , T. Lipic , D. Horvatic , A. Majdandzic , S. Bishop , H. E. Stanley

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

In the last decade, several models with network adaptive mechanisms (link deletion-creation, dynamic synapses, dynamic gains) have been proposed as examples of self-organized criticality (SOC) to explain neuronal avalanches. However, all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-10-15 O. Kinouchi , L. Brochini , A. A. Costa , J. G. F. Campos , M. Copelli

We study the relationship between topological scales and dynamic time scales in complex networks. The analysis is based on the full dynamics towards synchronization of a system of coupled oscillators. In the synchronization process, modular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Arenas , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Conrad J. Perez-Vicente

Partially synchronized solitary states occur frequently when a synchronized system of networked oscillators is perturbed locally. Several asymptotic states of different frequencies can coexist at the same node. Here, we reveal the mechanism…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-11-25 Jakob Niehues , Serhiy Yanchuk , Rico Berner , Jürgen Kurths , Frank Hellmann , Mehrnaz Anvari

In this article, we study algorithms for dynamic networks with asynchronous start, i.e., each node may start running the algorithm in a different round. Inactive nodes transmit only heartbeats, which contain no information but can be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Bernadette Charron-Bost , Shlomo Moran

We investigate the connection between the dynamics of synchronization and the modularity on complex networks. Simulating the Kuramoto's model in complex networks we determine patterns of meta-stability and calculate the modularity of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Arenas , Albert Diaz-Guilera