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Recently, several studies have investigated synchronization in quantum-mechanical limit-cycle oscillators. However, the quantum nature of these systems remained partially hidden, since the dynamics of the oscillator's phase was overdamped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Talitha Weiss , Stefan Walter , Florian Marquardt

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

Three-body interactions have been found in physics, biology, and sociology. To investigate their effect on dynamical systems, as a first step, we study numerically and theoretically a system of phase oscillators with three-body interaction.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-01-15 Takuma Tanaka , Toshio Aoyagi

Limit-cycle oscillators are the basic building blocks for synchronization; yet, the notion of a quantum limit cycle has remained unclear. Here, we study quantum limit cycles and synchronization in the presence of continuous heterodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Tobias Nadolny , Christoph Bruder

We employ a quantum trajectory approach to characterize synchronization and phase-locking between open quantum systems in nonequilibrium steady states. We exemplify our proposal for the paradigmatic case of two quantum Van der Pol…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Najmeh Es'haqi-Sani , Gonzalo Manzano , Roberta Zambrini , Rosario Fazio

We implement nonlinear anharmonic interaction in the coupled van der Pol oscillators to investigate the quantum synchronization behaviour of the systems. We study the quantum synchronization in two oscillator models, coupled quantum van der…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Niss Thomas , M. Senthilvelan

Spontaneous synchronisation is a collective phenomenon that can occur in both dynamical classical and quantum systems. Here, we analyse the spontaneous synchronisation dynamics of vibrations assisting energy transfer in a bio-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

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

In nature, instances of synchronisation abound across a diverse range of environments. In the quantum regime, however, synchronisation is typically observed by identifying an appropriate parameter regime in a specific system. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-30 Joseph Tindall , Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Berislav Buča , Dieter Jaksch

We develop a general theoretical framework of semiclassical phase reduction for analyzing synchronization of quantum limit-cycle oscillators. The dynamics of quantum dissipative systems exhibiting limit-cycle oscillations are reduced to a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-16 Yuzuru Kato , Naoki Yamamoto , Hiroya Nakao

We study the synchronization phenomena in a system of globally coupled oscillators with time delay in the coupling. The self-consistency equations for the order parameter are derived, which depend explicitly on the amount of delay. Analysis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Y. Choi , H. J. Kim , D. Kim , H. Hong

Macroscopic ensembles of radiating dipoles are ubiquitous in the physical and natural sciences. In the classical limit the dipoles can be described as damped-driven oscillators, which are able to spontaneously synchronize and collectively…

Quantum synchronization has been a subject of intensive research in the last decade. In this work, we propose a quantum Li\'enard system whose classical equivalent features two limit cycles to one of which the system will converge. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Tobias Kehrer , Christoph Bruder , Parvinder Solanki

The concept of measure synchronization between two coupled quantum many-body systems is presented. In general terms we consider two quantum many-body systems whose dynamics gets coupled through the contact particle-particle interaction.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-27 Haibo Qiu , Bruno Julia-Diaz , Miguel Angel Garcia-March , Artur Polls

Quantum criticality of open many-body systems has attracted lots of interest for emergent phenomena and universality. Here we present the exact steady state of the quantum van der Pol oscillator using the complex $P$-representation. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yaohua Li , Xuanchen Zhang , Yong-Chun Liu

Quantum van der Pol oscillators are driven-dissipative systems displaying quantum synchronization phenomena. When forced by a squeezed drive, the frequency adjusts to half of the forcing displaying multiple preferred phases. Here we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-26 Albert Cabot , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Although classical nonlinear dynamics suggests that sufficiently strong nonlinearity can sustain oscillations, quantization of such model typically yields a time-independent steady state that respects time-translation symmetry and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Song-hai Li , Najmeh Es'haqi-Sani , Xingli Li , Wenlin Li

We study synchronisation between periodically driven, interacting classical spins undergoing a Hamiltonian dynamics. In the thermodynamic limit there is a transition between a regime where all the spins oscillate synchronously for an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-06 Reyhaneh Khasseh , Rosario Fazio , Stefano Ruffo , Angelo Russomanno

To observe synchronization in a large network of classical or quantum systems demands both excellent control of the interactions between the nodes and very accurate preparation of the initial conditions due to the involved nonlinearities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Christopher W. Wächtler , Gloria Platero

Synchronization of quantum nonlinear oscillators has attracted much attention recently. To characterize the quantum oscillatory dynamics, we recently proposed a fully quantum-mechanical definition of the asymptotic phase, which is a key…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-02-14 Yuzuru Kato , Hiroya Nakao
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