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The Kuramoto model, which describes synchronization phenomena, is a system of ordinary differential equations on $N$-torus defined as coupled harmonic oscillators. The order parameter is often used to measure the degree of synchronization.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-02-05 Hayato Chiba

A family of stochastic processes has quasi-cycle oscillations if the oscillations are sustained by noise. For such a family we define a Kuramoto-type coupling of both phase and amplitude processes. We find that synchronization, as measured…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Priscilla E. Greenwood , Lawrence M. Ward

The number $\mathcal{N}$ of stable fixed points of locally coupled Kuramoto models depends on the topology of the network on which the model is defined. It has been shown that cycles in meshed networks play a crucial role in determining…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-03-27 Robin Delabays , Tommaso Coletta , Philippe Jacquod

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

Cyclops states are intriguing cluster patterns observed in oscillator networks, including neuronal ensembles. The concept of cyclops states formed by two distinct, coherent clusters and a solitary oscillator was introduced in [Munyayev {\it…

There are a number of models of coupled oscillator networks where the question of the stability of fixed points reduces to calculating the index of a graph Laplacian. Some examples of such models include the Kuramoto and Kuramoto--Sakaguchi…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-08-07 Jared C. Bronski , Lee DeVille , Timothy Ferguson

Maintaining the stability of synchronization state is crucial for the functioning of many natural and artificial systems. In this study, we develop methods to optimize the synchronization stability of the Kuramoto model by minimizing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Bo Li , K. Y. Michael Wong

We examine a modification of the Kuramoto model for phase oscillators coupled on a network. Here, two populations of oscillators are considered, each with different network topologies, internal and cross-network couplings and frequencies.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-02-17 A. C. Kalloniatis , M. L. Zuparic

This paper presents a nonlinear control framework for steering networks of coupled oscillators toward desired phase-locked configurations. Inspired by brain dynamics, where structured phase differences support cognitive functions, the focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Adnan Tahirovic

We study the Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on graphs approximating the Sierpinski gasket (SG). As the size of the graph tends to infinity, the limit points of the sequence of stable equilibria in the KM correspond to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

We present and analyze a nonabelian version of the Kuramoto system, which we call the quantum Kuramoto system. We study the stability of several classes of special solutions to this system, and show that for certain connection topologies…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Lee DeVille

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

The Kuramoto model has been introduced in order to describe synchronization phenomena observed in groups of cells, individuals, circuits, etc... We look at the Kuramoto model with white noise forces: in mathematical terms it is a set of N…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-14 Lorenzo Bertini , Giambattista Giacomin , Khashayar Pakdaman

We investigate the role of inertia in the asynchronous state of a disordered Kuramoto model. We extend an iterative simulation scheme to the case of the Kuramoto model with inertia in order to determine the self-consistent fluctuation…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-12 Yagmur Kati , Ralf Toenjes , Benjamin Lindner

The phenomenon of self-synchronization in populations of oscillatory units appears naturally in neurosciences. However, in some situations, the formation of a coherent state is damaging. In this article we study a repulsive mean-field…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-08 Corina Ciobotaru , Linard Hoessly , Christian Mazza , Xavier Richard

Higher-order interactions fundamentally shape collective dynamics in oscillator networks. The topological Kuramoto model captures these effects by extending synchronization models to include interactions between cells of arbitrary dimension…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-01 Iva Bačić , Michael T. Schaub , Jürgen Kurths , Dirk Witthaut

Phase reduction is a powerful technique in the study of nonlinear oscillatory systems. Under certain assumptions, it allows us to describe each multidimensional oscillator by a single phase variable, giving rise to simple phase models such…

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

We study synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators in strongly modular networks in which the structure of the network inside each community is averaged. We find that the dynamics of the interacting communities can be described as an ensemble…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-19 Per Sebastian Skardal , Juan G. Restrepo

Chimera states have been recently found in a variety of different coupling schemes and geometries. In most cases, the underlying coupling structure is considered to be static, while many realistic systems display significant temporal…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-23 Arturo Buscarino , Mattia Frasca , Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Philipp Hovel

In this paper we address two questions about the synchronization of coupled oscillators in the Kuramoto model with all-to-all coupling. In the first part we use some classical results in convex geometry to prove bounds on the size of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jared C. Bronski , Thomas E. Carty , Lee DeVille