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Synchronization forms the basis of many coordination phenomena in natural systems, enabling them to function cohesively and support their fundamental operations. However, there are scenarios where synchronization disrupts a system's proper…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-12-02 Gourab Kumar Sar , Md Sayeed Anwar , Martin Moriamé , Dibakar Ghosh , Timoteo Carletti

A new collective behavior of resonant synchronization is discovered and the ability to retrieve information from brain memory is proposed based on this mechanism. We use modified Kuramoto phase oscillator to simulate the dynamics of a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-09-06 Lin Zhang , Xv Li , Tingting Xue

Self-organized synchronization is a ubiquitous collective phenomenon, in which each unit adjusts their rhythms to achieve synchrony through mutual interactions. The optomechanical systems, due to their inherently engineerable…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-29 Jiteng Sheng , Xinrui Wei , Cheng Yang , Haibin Wu

We study the effects of synchronization and desynchronization in ensembles of phase oscillators with the global Kuramoto-Sakaguchi coupling under common noise driving. Since the mechanisms of synchronization by coupling and by common noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 D. S. Goldobin , A. V. Dolmatova , M. Rosenblum , A. Pikovsky

A small-world network (SW) of similar phase oscillators, interacting according to the Kuramoto model is studied numerically. It is shown that deterministic Kuramoto dynamics on the SW networks has various stable stationary states. This can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-11 Reihaneh Kouhi Esfahani , Farhad Shahbazi , Keivan Aghababaei Samani

In globally coupled ensembles of identical oscillators so-called chimera states can be observed. The chimera state is a symmetry-broken regime, where a subset of oscillators forms a cluster, a synchronized population, while the rest of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-16 Richard Janis Goldschmidt , Arkady Pikovsky , Antonio Politi

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is observed in many natural and engineered systems and emerges due to the interactions within the system. It can be both beneficial, e.g., in power grids, and harmful, e.g., in epileptic seizures. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-18 Martin Moriamé , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Maxime Lucas

We explore both analytically and numerically an ensemble of coupled phase-oscillators governed by a Kuramoto-type system of differential equations. However, we have included the effects of time-delay (due to finite signal-propagation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 Liam Timms , Lars Q. English

Oscillatory media can exhibit the coexistence of synchronized and desynchronized regions, so-called chimera states, for uniform parameters and symmetrical coupling. In a phase-balanced chimera state, where the totals of synchronized and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-22 Sindre W. Haugland , Lennart Schmidt , Katharina Krischer

Systems of nonlocally coupled oscillators can exhibit complex spatio-temporal patterns, called chimera states, which consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent (synchronized) and incoherent dynamics. We report on a novel form of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-02 Iryna Omelchenko , Oleh E. Omel'chenko , Philipp Hövel , Eckehard Schöll

We describe synchronization transitions in an ensemble of globally coupled phase oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function, and two sources of disorder - diversity of intrinsic oscillatory frequencies and external independent noise.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Vlasov , Maxim Komarov , Arkady Pikovsky

Two oscillators coupled to a two-level system which in turn is coupled to an infinite number of oscillators (reservoir) are considered, bringing to light the occurrence of synchronization. A detailed analysis clarifies the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 B. Militello , H. Nakazato , A. Napoli

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

We consider the inertial Kuramoto model of $N$ globally coupled oscillators characterized by both their phase and angular velocity, in which there is a time delay in the interaction between the oscillators. Besides the academic interest, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-05-29 David Métivier , Lucas Wetzel , Shamik Gupta

Synchronization of neurons forming a network with a hierarchical structure is essential for the brain to be able to function optimally. In this paper we study synchronization of phase oscillators on the most basic example of such a network,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-07-29 Diego Garlaschelli , Frank den Hollander , Janusz Meylahn , Benthen Zeegers

We study a population of swarmalators, mobile variants of phase oscillators, which run on a ring and have both attractive and repulsive interactions. This one-dimensional (1D) swarmalator model produces several of collective states: the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Baoli Hao , Ming Zhong , Kevin O'Keeffe

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and we propose its new perspective in ultrafast dynamics in interacting electron systems. In particular, using graphene irradiated by an intense bi-circular pulse laser as a prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Tanay Nag , Robert-Jan Slager , Takuya Higuchi , Takashi Oka

Brain networks typically exhibit characteristic synchronization patterns where several synchronized clusters coexist. On the other hand, neurological disorders are considered to be related to pathological synchronization such as excessive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Ryota Kokubo , Rui Kato , Hideaki Ishii

Synchronization systems with effective inertia, such as power grid networks and coupled electromechanical oscillators, are commonly modeled by the second-order Kuramoto model. In the forward process, numerical simulations exhibit a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-01 Gug Young Kim , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

Swarming behavior, where coherent motion emerges from the interactions of many mobile agents, is ubiquitous in physics and biology. Moreover, there are many efforts to replicate swarming dynamics in mobile robotic systems which take…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-04 Ira B. Schwartz , Victoria Edwards , Jason Hindes