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We present a method to infer network connectivity from collective dynamics in networks of synchronizing phase oscillators. We study the long-term stationary response to temporally constant driving. For a given driving condition, measuring…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc Timme

Many network applications rely on the synchronization of coupled oscillators. For example, such synchronization can provide networked devices with a common temporal reference necessary for coordinating actions or decoding transmitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Enrique Mallada , Randy A. Freeman , Ao Tang

We study the relationship between topological scales and dynamic time scales in complex networks. The analysis is based on the full dynamics towards synchronization of a system of coupled oscillators. In the synchronization process, modular…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Arenas , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Conrad J. Perez-Vicente

Networks of neural mass nodes with delayed interactions are increasingly being used as models for large-scale brain activity. To complement the growing number of computational studies of such networks, it is timely to develop new…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-29 S Coombes , H G E Meijer

We study optimal synchronization of networks of coupled phase oscillators. We extend previous theory for optimizing the synchronization properties of undirected networks to the important case of directed networks. We derive a generalized…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-06-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor , Jie Sun

Neural-network processing in machine learning applications relies on layer synchronization. This is practiced even in artificial Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which are touted as consistent with neurobiology, in spite of processing in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Roel Koopman , Amirreza Yousefzadeh , Mahyar Shahsavari , Guangzhi Tang , Manolis Sifalakis

We explore the interplay of network structure, topology, and dynamic interactions between nodes using the paradigm of distributed synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators. As the network evolves to a global steady state,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-04 Kristina Lerman , Rumi Ghosh

We study systems of identical coupled oscillators introducing a distribution of delay times in the coupling. For arbitrary network topologies, we show that the frequency and stability of the fully synchronized states depend only on the mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-07-04 Lucas Wetzel , Luis G. Morelli , Andrew C. Oates , Frank Julicher , Saul Ares

Oscillator networks display intricate synchronization patterns. Determining their stability typically requires incorporating the symmetries of the network coupling. Going beyond analyses that appeal only to a network's automorphism group,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-12-14 J. Emenheiser , A. Salova , J. Snyder , J. P. Crutchfield , R. M. D'Souza

We study impact of multiplexing on the global phase synchronizability of different layers in the delayed coupled multiplex networks. We find that at strong couplings, the multiplexing induces the global synchronization in sparse networks.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-03 Aradhana Singh , Saptarshi Ghosh , Sarika Jalan , Jürgen Kurths

Experimental studies of synchronization properties on networks with controlled connection topology can provide powerful insights into the physics of complex networks. Here, we report experimental results on the influence of connection…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-28 Bhargava Ravoori , Adam B. Cohen , Jie Sun , Adilson E. Motter , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

We consider the problem of maximizing the synchronizability of oscillator networks by assigning weights and directions to the links of a given interaction topology. We first extend the well-known master stability formalism to the case of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

We present an analytical scheme to achieve optimal synchronization in multiplex networks of frustrated and non-frustrated phase oscillators. We derive a multiplex synchrony alignment function (MSAF) for that purpose, the expression of which…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-04-22 Prosenjit Kundu , Pitambar Khanra , Chittaranjan Hens , Pinaki Pal

We analyze the synchronization dynamics of phase oscillators far from the synchronization manifold, including the onset of synchronization on scale-free networks with low and high clustering coefficients. We use normal coordinates and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick McGraw , Michael Menzinger

Synchronization in networks with delayed coupling are ubiquitous in nature and play a key role in almost all fields of science including physics, biology, ecology, climatology and sociology. In general, the published works on network…

The problem of synchronization in heterogeneous networks of linear systems with nonlinear delayed diffusive coupling is considered. The network is presented in new coordinates mean-field dynamics and synchronization errors. Thus the problem…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-05-11 Sergei A. Plotnikov

The multiplex network paradigm has been instrumental in revealing many unexpected phenomena and dynamical regimes in complex interacting systems. Nevertheless, most of the current research focuses on undirected multiplex structures, whereas…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-03 Anath Bandhu Das , Pinaki Pal

We present a systematic approach to reveal the correspondence between time delay dynamics and networks of coupled oscillators. After early demonstrations of the usefulness of spatio-temporal representations of time-delay system dynamics,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-04-17 Joseph D. Hart , Laurent Larger , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

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

Networks of coupled phase oscillators are one of the most studied dynamical systems with numerous applications in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Their behaviour is often characterized by the emergence of various partially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-02-27 Oleh E. Omel'chenko