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The synchronization of self-propelled particles (SPPs) is a fascinating instance of emergent behavior in living and man-made systems, such as colonies of bacteria, flocks of birds, robot ensembles, and many others. The recent discovery of…

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We study the dynamics of a multilayer network of chaotic oscillators subject to an amplification. Previous studies have proven that multilayer networks present phenomena such as synchronization, cluster and chimera states. Here we consider…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-03 Thierry Njougouo , Victor Camargo , Patrick Louodop , Fernando Fagundes Ferreira , Pierre K. Talla , Hilda A. Cerdeira

A condition for the synchronizability of a pair of PDE systems, coupled through a finite set of variables, is commonly the existence of internal synchronization or internal coherence in each system separately. The condition was previously…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Gregory S. Duane

Partial synchronous states appear between full synchrony and asynchrony and exhibit many interesting properties. Most frequently, these states are studied within the framework of phase approximation. The latter is used ubiquitously to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Erik Teichmann

Recently, a novel mixed-synchronization phenomenon is observed in counter-rotating nonlinear coupled oscillators. In mixed-synchronization state: some variables are synchronized in-phase, while others are out-of-phase. We have…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-05-31 Amit Sharma , Manish Dev Shrimali

Onset and loss of synchronization in coupled oscillators are of fundamental importance in understanding emergent behavior in natural and man-made systems, which range from neural networks to power grids. We report on experiments with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-14 Dumitru Călugăru , Jan Frederik Totz , Erik A. Martens , Harald Engel

Synchronization is studied in an array of identical oscillators undergoing small vibrations. The overall coupling is described by a pair of matrix-weighted Laplacian matrices; one representing the dissipative, the other the restorative…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-02 S. Emre Tuna

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a fascinating topic in various scientific disciplines. A coupled oscillator network is characterized by a population of heterogeneous oscillators and a graph describing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Florian Dörfler , Michael Chertkov , Francesco Bullo

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

We study the emergence of synchronisation in a chiral network of harmonic oscillators. The network consists of a set of locally incoherently pumped harmonic oscillators coupled pairwise in cascade with travelling field modes. Such cascaded…

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Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-21 Haibo Qiu , Roberta Zambrini , Artur Polls , Joan Martorell , Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon, seen in systems as diverse as superconducting Josephson junctions and discharging pacemaker cells. Here the elements have rhythmic state variables whose mutual influence promotes temporal order. A…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-15 Kevin P. O'Keeffe , Joep H. M. Evers , Theodore Kolokolnikov

A generalized Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators with slowly varying coupling matrix is studied. The dynamics of the coupling coefficients is driven by the phase difference of pairs of oscillators in such a way that the coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Seliger , Stephen C. Young , Lev S. Tsimring

For a class of coupled limit cycle oscillators, we give a condition on a linear coupling operator that is necessary and sufficient for exponential stability of the synchronous solution. We show that with certain modifications our method of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-02-24 Georgi S. Medvedev

More than a decade ago, a surprising coexistence of synchronous and asynchronous behavior called the chimera state was discovered in networks of nonlocally coupled identical phase oscillators. In later years, chimeras were found to occur in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-17 Tassos Bountis , Vasileios G. Kanas , Johanne Hizanidis , Anastasios Bezerianos

We consider a toy model of two kinetically coupled stochastic oscillators whose dynamics is described as a Markov jump process among $N$ discrete phase states. For large $N$, it maps onto the deterministic two-oscillator Kuramoto model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito , Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Chimera states, namely complex spatiotemporal patterns that consist of coexisting domains of spatially coherent and incoherent dynamics, are investigated in a network of coupled identical oscillators. These intriguing spatiotemporal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-29 Sarbendu Rakshit , Bidesh K. Bera , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Synchronization in quantum systems has been recently studied through persistent oscillations of local observables, which stem from undamped modes of the dissipative dynamics. However, the existence of such modes requires fine-tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yi J. Zhao , Joel E. Moore , Juzar Thingna , Christopher W. Wächtler

Across natural and human-made systems, transition points mark sudden changes of order and are thus key to understanding overarching system features. Motivated by recent experimental observations, we here uncover an intriguing class of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lennart J. Kuklinski , Marc Timme