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Spontaneous synchronization is a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-23 Stefano Gherardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo

The behavior of weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators can often be well described by phase equations. Here we use the paradigm of Kuramoto phase oscillators which are coupled in a network to calculate first and second order corrections…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-25 R. Toenjes , B. Blasius

Synchronization is crucial for the correct functionality of many natural and man-made complex systems. In this work we characterize the formation of synchronization patterns in networks of Kuramoto oscillators. Specifically, we reveal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Tiberi , Chiara Favaretto , Mario Innocenti , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

The Kuramoto model can be formulated as a gradient flow on a nonconvex energy landscape of the form $E(\boldsymbol{\theta}) := \frac{1}{2} \sum_{1\le i,j\le n} A_{ij}\bigl(1-\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j)\bigr).$ A fundamental question is to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Hongjin Wu , Ulrik Brandes

Synchronization in coupled oscillators networks is a remarkable phenomenon of relevance in numerous fields. For Kuramoto oscillators the loss of synchronization is determined by a trade-off between coupling strength and oscillator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

We propose a Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators on a time-varying graph, whose dynamics is dictated by a Markov process in the space of graphs. The simplest representative is considering a base graph and then the subgraph determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang , Hernan Vivas

Models of coupled oscillator networks play an important role in describing collective synchronization dynamics in biological and technological systems. The Kuramoto model describes oscillator's phase evolution and explains the transition…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-06-19 Marios Antonios Gkogkas , Benjamin Jüttner , Christian Kuehn , Erik Andreas Martens

The Kuramoto model, which serves as a paradigm for investigating synchronization phenomenon of oscillatory system, is known to exhibit second-order, i.e., continuous, phase transitions in the macroscopic order parameter. Here, we generalize…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-11-04 Can Xu , Xuebin Wang , Per Sebastian Skardal

Synchronization over networks depends strongly on the structure of the coupling between the oscillators. When the coupling presents certain regularities, the dynamics can be coarse-grained into clusters by means of External Equitable…

Bursting neurons fire rapid sequences of action potential spikes followed by a quiescent period. The basic dynamical mechanism of bursting is the slow currents that modulate a fast spiking activity caused by rapid ionic currents. Minimal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-16 Fabiano A. S. Ferrari , Ricardo L. Viana , Sérgio R. Lopes , Ruedi Stoop

The emergence of synchrony essentially underlies the functionality of many systems across physics, biology and engineering. In all established synchronization phase transitions so far, a stable synchronous state is connected to a stable…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-14 Seungjae Lee , Lennart J. Kuklinski , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

The homogeneous Kuramoto model on a graph $G = (V,E)$ is a network of $|V|$ identical oscillators, one at each vertex, where every oscillator is coupled bidirectionally (with unit strength) to its neighbors in the graph. A graph $G$ is said…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Vishesh Jain , Clayton Mizgerd , Mehtaab Sawhney

We analyze populations of Kuramoto oscillators with a particular distribution of natural frequencies. Inspired by networks where there are two groups of nodes with opposite behaviors, as for instance in power-grids where energy is either…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-03-14 Lubos Buzna , Sergi Lozano , Albert Diaz-Guilera

The Kuramoto model for an ensemble of coupled oscillators provides a paradigmatic example of non-equilibrium transitions between an incoherent and a synchronized state. Here we analyze populations of almost identical oscillators in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-05-30 Luce Prignano , Albert Diaz Guilera

We study bifurcations of the completely synchronized state in a continuum limit (CL) for the Kuramoto model (KM) of identical oscillators with two-mode interaction depending on two graphs. Here one of the graphs is uniform but may be…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Kazuyuki Yagasaki

In this paper we study the synchronization properties of random geometric graphs. We show that the onset of synchronization takes place roughly at the same value of the order parameter that a random graph with the same size and average…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-13 Albert Diaz-Guilera , Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Maziar Nekovee

In a large variety of systems (biological, physical, social etc.), synchronization occurs when different oscillating objects tune their rhythm when they interact with each other. The different underlying network defining the connectivity…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-07 Juliette Courson , Thanos Manos , Mathias Quoy

Synchronization commonly occurs in many natural and man-made systems, from neurons in the brain to cardiac cells to power grids to Josephson junction arrays. Transitions to or out of synchrony for coupled oscillators depend on several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-10 Hui Wu , Mukesh Dhamala

We study the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators on networks where only a fraction of them is subjected to a periodic external force. When all oscillators receive the external drive the system always synchronize with the periodic force…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-10-09 Carolina A. Moreira , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Synchronization in systems of coupled Kuramoto oscillators may depend on their natural frequencies, coupling, and underlying networks. In this paper, we reduce the alternatives to only one by considering identical oscillators where the only…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-11-11 Yury Sokolov , G. Bard Ermentrout