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We study the dynamics of phase synchronization in growing populations of discrete phase oscillatory systems when the division process is coupled to the distribution of oscillator phases. Using mean field theory, linear stability analysis,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Wen Yu , Kevin B. Wood

Many studies of synchronization properties of coupled oscillators, based on the classical Kuramoto approach, focus on ensembles coupled via a mean field. Here we introduce a setup of Kuramoto-type phase oscillators coupled via two mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-19 Xiyun Zhang , Arkady Pikovsky , Zonghua Liu

In systems of coupled oscillators, the effects of complex signaling can be captured by time delays and phase shifts. Here, we show how time delays and phase shifts lead to different oscillator dynamics and how synchronization rates can be…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-30 David J. Jörg , Luis G. Morelli , Saúl Ares , Frank Jülicher

Synchronization and desynchronization are the two ends on the spectrum of emergent phenomena that somehow often coexist in biological, neuronal, and physical networks. However, previous studies essentially regard their coexistence as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-18 Chongzhi Wang , Haibin Shao , Dewei Li

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

Swarmalators are a class of coupled oscillators that simultaneously synchronize in both space and phase, providing a minimal model for systems ranging from biological microswimmers to robotic swarms. Time delay is ubiquitous in such…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-13 Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo , Gourab Kumar Sar , Timoteo Carletti

In this work, we study the synchronization of coupled phase oscillators on the underlying topology of scale-free networks. In particular, we assume that each network's component is an oscillator and that each interacts with the others…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Amalio F. Pacheco

Many real-world examples of distributed oscillators involve not only time delays but also attractive (positive) and repulsive (negative) influences in their network interactions. Here, considering such examples, we generalize the Kuramoto…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-10-03 Hui Wu , Mukesh Dhamala

Swarmalators are entities with the simultaneous presence of swarming and synchronization that reveal emergent collective behavior due to the fascinating bidirectional interplay between phase and spatial dynamics. Although different coupling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-08-02 Gourab K. Sar , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Synchronization is one of the paradigmatic phenomena in the study of complex systems. It has been explored theoretically and experimentally mostly to understand natural phenomena, but also in view of technological applications. Although…

The problem of robotic synchronisation and coordination is a long-standing one. Combining autonomous, computerised systems with unpredictable real-world conditions can have consequences ranging from poor performance to collisions and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kevin Quinn , Cormac Molloy , Harun Šiljak

We study a system of coupled oscillators of the Sakaguchi-Kuramoto type with interactions including a phase delay. We consider the case of a coupling matrix such that oscillators with large natural frequencies drive all slower ones but not…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-28 Leonard M. Sander

We analyze the collective behavior of a lattice model of pulse-coupled oscillators. By means of computer simulations we find the relation between the intrinsic dynamics of each member of the population and their mutual interaction that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Alvaro Corral , Conrad J. Perez , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

We analyze the emergence of synchronization in a population of moving integrate-and-fire oscillators. Oscillators, while moving on a plane, interact with their nearest neighbor upon firing time. We discover a non-monotonic dependence of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-12-06 Luce Prignano , Oleguer Sagarra , Albert Díaz-Guilera

We consider swarms formed by populations of self-propelled particles with attractive long-range interactions. These swarms represent multistable dynamical systems and can be found either in coherent traveling states or in an incoherent…

adap-org · Physics 2009-10-31 A. S. Mikhailov , D. H. Zanette

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the study of spontaneous synchronization, particularly within the framework of the Kuramoto model. The model comprises oscillators with distributed natural frequencies interacting through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-29 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

Motivated by phenomena related to biological systems such as the synchronously flashing swarms of fireflies, we investigate a network of phase oscillators evolving under the generalized Kuramoto model with inertia. A distance-dependent,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-07-10 Eszter Fehér , Balázs Havasi-Tóth , Tamás Kalmár-Nagy

Synchronization is studied in an array of identical linear oscillators of arbitrary order, coupled through a dynamic network comprising dissipative connectors (e.g., dampers) and restorative connectors (e.g., springs). The coupling network…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-21 S. Emre Tuna

Synchronization is the spontaneous alignment of the dynamics of weakly-coupled oscillators. In addition to temporal dynamics like periodic and chaotic oscillations, also the spatio-temporal dynamics of spatially-extended systems like…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jules Mercadier , Stefan Bittner , Marc Sciamanna