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There is a recent surge of interest in the behavior of active particles that can at the same time align their direction of movement and synchronize their oscillations, known as swarmalators. While theoretical and numerical models of such…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-02-14 Anton Peshkov , Sonia McGaffigan , Alice C. Quillen

We consider here a model previously introduced to describe the collective behavior of an ensemble of cold atoms interacting with a coherent electromagnetic field. The atomic motion along the self-generated spatially-periodic force field can…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Javaloyes , M. Perrin , A. Politi

Synchronization is an important phenomenon in a wide variety of systems comprising interacting oscillatory units, whether natural (like neurons, biochemical reactions, cardiac cells) or artificial (like metronomes, power grids, Josephson…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-13 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Emma R. Zajdela , Daniel M. Abrams

We analyze the simplest model of identical coupled phase oscillators subject to two-body and three-body interactions with permutation symmetry. This model is derived from an ensemble of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators by phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao

We investigate the collective dynamics of self-propelled particles able to probe and anticipate the orientation of their neighbors. We show that a simple anticipation strategy hinders the emergence of homogeneous flocking patterns. Yet,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-23 Alexandre Morin , Jean-Baptiste Caussin , Christophe Eloy , Denis Bartolo

We examine microscopic mechanisms for coupling stochastic oscillators so that they display similar and correlated temporal variations. Unlike oscillatory motion in deterministic dynamical systems, complete synchronization of stochastic…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-09-29 Amitabha Nandi , G. Santhosh , R. K. Brojen Singh , Ram Ramaswamy

Nonlocally coupled oscillators with a phase lag self-organize into various patterns such as global synchronization, the twisted state, and the chimera state. In this paper, we consider nonlocally coupled oscillators that move on a ring by…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-11-17 Bojun Li , Nariya Uchida

Previous studies on oscillator populations with two-simplex interaction have reported novel phenomena such as discontinuous desynchronization transitions and multistability of synchronized states. However, the noise effect is not well…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-02-11 Yuichiro Marui , Hiroshi Kori

We study a generalized Kuramoto model in which each oscillator carries two coupled phase variables, representing a minimal swarmalator system. Assuming perfect correlation between the intrinsic frequencies associated with each phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyunsuk Hong , Jae Sung Lee , Hyunggyu Park

Synchronization is a ubiquitous scientific phenomenon in various physical systems. Here, we examine the feasibility of generating multistable and dynamically tunable synchronization by using the technique of Floquet engineering. Applying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Motoki Asano , Hajime Okamoto , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

The Kuramoto-Sakaguchi system of coupled phase oscillators, where interaction between oscillators is determined by a single harmonic of phase differences of pairs of oscillators, has very simple emergent dynamics in the case of identical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-10 Christian Bick , Peter Ashwin , Ana Rodrigues

Networks of coupled oscillators are some of the most studied objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Two important areas of current interest are the study of synchrony in highly disordered systems and the modeling of systems with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-07 Matthew Ricci , Minju Jung , Yuwei Zhang , Mathieu Chalvidal , Aneri Soni , Thomas Serre

We study the synchronization phenomena in a system of globally coupled oscillators with time delay in the coupling. The self-consistency equations for the order parameter are derived, which depend explicitly on the amount of delay. Analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Y. Choi , H. J. Kim , D. Kim , H. Hong

Ecological systems, as is often noted, are complex. Equally notable is the generalization that complex systems tend to be oscillatory, whether Huygens simple patterns of pendulum entrainment or the twisted chaotic orbits of Lorenz…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-30 John Vandermeer , Zachary Hajian-Forooshani , Nicholas Medina , Ivette Perfecto

Random networks of symmetrically coupled, excitable elements can self-organize into coherently oscillating states if the networks contain loops (indeed loops are abundant in random networks) and if the initial conditions are sufficiently…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-19 Patrick McGraw , Michael Menzinger

The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Anna Gallo , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Repulsive oscillator networks can exhibit multiple cooperative rhythms, including chimera and cluster splay states. Yet, understanding which rhythm prevails remains challenging. Here, we address this fundamental question in the context of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-29 V. O. Munyayev , M. I. Bolotov , L. A. Smirnov , G. V. Osipov , I. Belykh

A large variety of rhythms are observed in nature. Rhythms such as electroencephalogram signals in the brain can often be regarded as interacting. In this study, we investigate the dynamical properties of rhythmic systems in two populations…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-20 Yu Terada , Toshio Aoyagi

We show that self-consistent partial synchrony in globally coupled oscillatory ensembles is a general phenomenon. We analyze in detail appearance and stability properties of this state in possibly the simplest setup of a biharmonic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-02 Pau Clusella Cobero , Antonio Politi , Michael Rosenblum