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Kuramoto networks constitute a paradigmatic model for the investigation of collective behavior in networked systems. Despite many advances in recent years, many open questions remain on the solutions for systems composed of coupled Kuramoto…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Tung T. Nguyen , Roberto C. Budzinski , Jacqueline Doan , Federico W. Pasini , Jan Minac , Lyle E. Muller

Kuramoto's differential equation describes a synchronization process between several harmonic oscillators. It has been used to model biological phenomena such as the synchronization of heart cells, the circadian rhythm, or brain waves. It…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Daniel Burns , Gregorio Malajovich , Charles Pugh , Indika Rajapakse , Steve Smale

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

Collective oscillations and patterns of synchrony have long fascinated researchers in the applied sciences, particularly due to their far-reaching importance in chemistry, physics, and biology. The Kuramoto model has emerged as a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason Bramburger , Matt Holzer

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 emergence of synchronization in the Kuramoto model on a digraph in the presence of time delays. Assuming the digraph is strongly connected, we first establish a uniform bound on the phase diameter and subsequently prove the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Conor Carty , Young-Pil Choi , Chiara Cicolani , Cristina Pignotti

In this paper we address two questions about the synchronization of coupled oscillators in the Kuramoto model with all-to-all coupling. In the first part we use some classical results in convex geometry to prove bounds on the size of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jared C. Bronski , Thomas E. Carty , Lee DeVille

Synchronization of non-identical oscillators coupled through complex networks is an important example of collective behavior. It is interesting to ask how the structural organization of network interactions influences this process. Several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-13 Lia Papadopoulos , Jason Kim , Jurgen Kurths , Danielle S. Bassett

The understanding of synchronization ranging from natural to social systems has driven the interests of scientists from different disciplines. Here, we have investigated the synchronization dynamics of the Kuramoto dynamics departing from…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-09-29 Jie Ren , Huijie Yang

We propose new mathematical optimization models for generating sparse dynamical graphs, or networks, that can achieve synchronization. The synchronization phenomenon is studied using the Kuramoto model, defined in terms of the adjacency…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Regina S. Burachik , Alexander C. Kalloniatis , C. Yalçın Kaya

The study of synchronization in populations of coupled biological oscillators is fundamental to many areas of biology to include neuroscience, cardiac dynamics and circadian rhythms. Studying these systems may involve tracking the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-18 Kevin M. Hannay , Daniel B. Forger , Victoria Booth

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

We study a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity in interaction. Under a week force, an oscillator tends to follow the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-28 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

An interesting problem in synchronization is the study of coupled oscillators, wherein oscillators with different natural frequencies synchronize to a common frequency and equilibrium phase difference. In this paper, we investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Vishaal Krishnan , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Somashekhar S. Hiremath

Due to its description of a synchronization between oscillators, the Kuramoto model is an ideal choice for a synchronisation algorithm in networked systems. This requires to achieve not only a frequency synchronization but also a phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Andreas Bathelt , Vimukthi Herath , Thomas Dallmann

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is a widely studied topic with extensive scientific and engineering applications. In this paper, we study the frequency synchronization problem for networks of Kuramoto oscillators with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Saber Jafarpour , Elizabeth Y. Huang , Francesco Bullo

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

A knot is a circle embedded in the space. Projecting a knot on a plane, we obtain a diagram which is known as the knot diagram. The vertices of the diagram, where the curved lines are crossed, can be considered as sites occupied by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

In this work, we study the synchronization of coupled phase oscillators on the underlying topology of scale-free networks. In particular, we assume that each network's component is an oscillator and that each interacts with the others…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Amalio F. Pacheco

The mean-field Kuramoto model for synchronization of phase oscillators with an asymmetric bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed. Breaking the reflection symmetry facilitates oscillator synchronization to rotating wave phases. Numerical…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 J. A. Acebron , L. L. Bonilla , S. De Leo , R. Spigler