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In this paper, we study pairs of oscillators that are indirectly coupled via active (excitable) cells. We introduce a scalar phase model for coupled oscillators and excitable cells. We first show that one excitable and one oscillatory cell…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Derek Orr , Bard Ermentrout

We consider an excitatory population of subthreshold Izhikevich neurons which exhibit noise-induced firings. By varying the coupling strength $J$, we investigate population synchronization between the noise-induced firings which may be used…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-06 Sang-Yoon Kim , Woochang Lim

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

We present some recent development in modeling concurrent emergence of collective behaviors, namely, the emergence of clustering, flocking and synchronization at the same time. We derive two new models, namely Swarmalator-Vicsek and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Trenton Gerew , Ming Zhong

Many biological systems synchronize their movement through physical interactions. By far the most well studied examples concern physical interactions through a fluid: beating cilia, swimming sperm and worms, and flapping wings, all display…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-09-15 Wei Zhou , Zhuonan Hao , Nick Gravish

Motility induced phase separation is an efficient aggregation mechanism of active matter, yet biological systems exhibit richer organization through communication among constituents. We investigate suspensions of active particles that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-18 Yuxin Zhou , Qingqing Yin , Shubhadip Nayak , Poulami Bag , Pulak K. Ghosh , Yunyun Li , Fabio Marchesoni

Weakly coupled oscillators adjust their dynamics to work in unison: they synchronize. This ubiquitous phenomenon is observed for oscillating pendulum, electronic devices, as well as clapping crowds or flashing fireflies. In effect,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Yaocheng Li , Ivan Palaia , Jinzi Mac Huang , Antoine Aubret , Jeremie Palacci

The clustering of self-motile and repulsive particles, so-called motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), is one of the clearest signatures of active physics. Typically, increasing the amplitude of self-motility increases the degree of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-12 Letian Chen , Luke K. Davis

We review some recent work on the synchronization of coupled dynamical systems on a variety of networks. When nodes show synchronized behaviour, two interesting phenomena can be observed. First, there are some nodes of the floating type…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. E. Amritkar , Sarika Jalan

Synchronisation is often observed in the swimming of flagellated cells, either for multiple appendages on the same organism or between the flagella of nearby cells. Beating cilia are also seen to synchronise their dynamics. In 1951, Taylor…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Weida Liao , Eric Lauga

We study a two-dimensional crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment. This mechanism induces a torque that aligns a particle's orientation with its velocity and leads to a phase transition from a disordered to a flocking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-17 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

The complex interactions underlying collective motion in biological systems give rise to emergent behaviours such as flocking, sorting, and cooperative transport. These dynamics often involve species with different motilities coordinating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-19 Laura Alvarez , Elena Sesé-Sansa , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Lucio Isa

A novel viewpoint, i.e., adaptive synchronization, is proposed to explore collective rhythm observed in many complex, self-organizing systems. We show that a simple adaptive coupling is able to tip arrays of oscillators towards collective…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Debin Huang

Synchrony is inevitable in many oscillating systems -- from the canonical alignment of two ticking grandfather clocks, to the mutual entrainment of beating flagella or spiking neurons. Yet both biological and manmade systems provide…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-16 William Gilpin

Populations of flashing fireflies, claps of applauding audience, cells of cardiac and circadian pacemakers reach synchrony via event-triggered interactions, referred to as pulse couplings. Synchronization via pulse coupling is widely used…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-16 Anton V. Proskurnikov , Ming Cao

Synchronization is the process of achieving identical dynamics among coupled identical units. If the units are different from each other, their dynamics cannot become identical; yet, after transients, there may emerge a functional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-09 Aditya Tandon , Malte Schröder , Manu Mannattil , Marc Timme , Sagar Chakraborty

A sufficiently connected topology linking the constituent units of a complex system is usually seen as a prerequisite for the emergence of collective phenomena such as synchronization. We present a random network of heterogeneous phase…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-11-26 Marco Faggian , Francesco Ginelli , Fernando Rosas , Zoran Levnajić

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

We study the emergent behaviors of a population of swarming coupled oscillators, dubbed 'swarmalators'. Previous work considered the simplest, idealized case: identical swarmalators with global coupling. Here we expand this work by adding…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-22 Steven Ceron , Kevin O'Keeffe , Kirstin Petersen

The concept of spin torque driven high frequency magnetization dynamics has opened up the field of spintronics to non-linear physics, potentially in complex networks of dynamical systems. In the scarce demonstrations of synchronized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-21 R. Lebrun , S. Tsunegi , P. Bortolotti , H. Kubota , A. S. Jenkins , M. Romera , K. Yakushiji , A. Fukushima , J. Grollier , S. Yuasa , V. Cros