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Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

The Kuramoto model is a standard model for the dynamics of coupled oscillator networks. In particular, it is used to study long time behavior such as phase-locking where all oscillators rotate at a common frequency with fixed angle…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Timothy Ferguson

We study the mean-field limit of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled oscillators. By studying the evolution in Fourier space and understanding the domain of dependence, we show a global stability result. Moreover, we can identify…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Helge Dietert

The Kuramoto model is a canonical framework for analyzing phase synchronization, yet its utility is restricted to the vicinity of the oscillator's unperturbed limit cycle. Here, we present a method to construct coupled-oscillator models…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-06 Koichiro Yawata , Hiroya Nakao

The Kuramoto model is a mean-field model for the synchronisation behaviour of oscillators, which exhibits Landau damping. In a recent work, the nonlinear stability of a class of spatially inhomogeneous stationary states was shown under the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-14 Helge Dietert

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 discuss the {\it nonlinear stability} of phase-locked states for globally coupled nonlinear oscillators with finite inertia, namely the modified Kuramoto model, in the context of the robust $\ell^{\infty}$-norm. We show that some classes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-14 Young-Pil Choi , Chulho Choi , Meesoon Ha , Seung-Yeal Ha

We consider the Kuramoto model of an ensemble of interacting oscillators allowing for an arbitrary distribution of frequencies and coupling strengths. We define a family of traveling wave states as stationary in a rotating frame, and derive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-11 Dmytro Iatsenko , Spase Petkoski , Aneta Stefanovska , Peter V. E. McClintock

Based on the entropy concept, we define a new clustering order parameter $c$ feasible for finite systems of interacting oscillators. Unlike the generalized synchronization order parameters of the Kuramoto type, this new order parameter…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-11-23 Anders Nordenfelt

In this note we show that for the Kuramoto model defined in a simple undirected graph it is possible to decide which nodes form the core of the network. The set of core-nodes is defined by its relevance to the phase synchronisation process.

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-22 Raul J Mondragon

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

Real world systems comprised of coupled oscillators have the ability to exhibit spontaneous synchronization and other complex behaviors. The interplay between the underlying network topology and the emergent dynamics remains a rich area of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-06-19 Monica Goebel , Matthew S Mizuhara , Sofia Stepanoff

A generalized Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators with slowly varying coupling matrix is studied. The dynamics of the coupling coefficients is driven by the phase difference of pairs of oscillators in such a way that the coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Seliger , Stephen C. Young , Lev S. Tsimring

A paradigmatic framework to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization is provided by the Kuramoto model comprising a large collection of limit-cycle oscillators of distributed frequencies that are globally coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-08 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

Kuramoto model is one of the most prominent models for the synchronization of coupled oscillators. It has long been a research hotspot to understand how natural frequencies, the interaction between oscillators, and network topology…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-04-08 Shuyang Ling

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

In the Kuramoto model of globally coupled oscillators, partially locked states (PLS) are stationary solutions that incorporate the emergence of partial synchrony when the interaction strength increases. While PLS have long been considered,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Helge Dietert , Bastien Fernandez , David Gérard-Varet

The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigm to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization. We study here a nontrivial generalization of the Kuramoto model by including an interaction that breaks explicitly the rotational…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-30 V K Chandrasekar , M Manoranjani , Shamik Gupta

Partial integrability in phase-oscillator dynamics is typically examined for identically connected oscillators or groups thereof. Yet, the precise connectivity conditions that ensure conserved quantities on general networks remain unclear.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-01 Vincent Thibeault , Benjamin Claveau , Antoine Allard , Patrick Desrosiers

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the study of spontaneous synchronization, particularly within the framework of the Kuramoto model. The model comprises oscillators with distributed natural frequencies interacting through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-29 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo