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We study the homogeneous Kuramoto model on a graph and the geometry of its underlying optimization landscape $\min_{\boldsymbol \theta \in \mathbb R^n}-\sum_{1\leq i,j\leq n} A_{ij}\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j).$ This problem admits a dual…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Hongjin Wu , Ulrik Brandes

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

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

We study the synchronization transition of Kuramoto oscillators in scale-free networks that are characterized by tunable local properties. Specifically, we perform a detailed finite size scaling analysis and inspect how the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno

We present a framework for controlling the collective phase of a system of coupled oscillators described by the Kuramoto model under the influence of a periodic external input by combining the methods of dynamical reduction and optimal…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-04-15 Narumi Fujii , Hiroya Nakao

Synchronization systems with effective inertia, such as power grid networks and coupled electromechanical oscillators, are commonly modeled by the second-order Kuramoto model. In the forward process, numerical simulations exhibit a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-01 Gug Young Kim , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

We study the dynamics of the Kuramoto model on the sphere under higher-order interactions and an external periodic force. For identical oscillators, we introduce a novel way to incorporate three- and four-body interactions into the dynamics…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-26 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Ricardo Fariello , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

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

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

A fundamental understanding of synchronized behavior in multi-agent systems can be acquired by studying analytically tractable Kuramoto models. However, such models typically diverge from many real systems whose dynamics evolve under…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-07-28 Keith A. Wiley , Peter J. Mucha , Danielle S. Bassett

Partial, instead of complete, synchronization has been widely observed in various networks including, in particular, brain networks. Motivated by data from human brain functional networks, in this technical note, we analytically show that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-09-23 Yuzhen Qin , Yu Kawano , Oscar Portoles , Ming Cao

The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Cecilia De Vita , Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang

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

This paper studies the synchronization of a finite number of Kuramoto oscillators in a frequency-dependent bidirectional tree network. We assume that the coupling strength of each link in each direction is equal to the product of a common…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Matin Jafarian , Xinlei Yi , Mohammad Pirani , Henrik Sandberg , Karl Henrik Johansson

We study synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators in strongly modular networks in which the structure of the network inside each community is averaged. We find that the dynamics of the interacting communities can be described as an ensemble…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-19 Per Sebastian Skardal , Juan G. Restrepo

In this paper, inspired by the idea that many real networks are composed by different sorts of communities, we investigate the synchronization property of oscillators on such networks. We identify the communities by the intrinsic…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-11-06 Ming Zhao , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang

In this paper, we study the synchronization of identical Kuramoto phase oscillators under cumulative stochastic damage to the edges of networks. We analyze the capacity of coupled oscillators to reach a coherent state from initial random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-31 Leidy Katherin Eraso Hernández , Alejandro P. Riascos

Scientists have been considering the Kuramoto model to understand the mechanism behind the appearance of collective behaviour, such as frequency synchronisation (FS) as a paradigm, in real-world networks with a finite number of oscillators.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-09-15 Chengwei Wang , Nicolas Rubido , Celso Grebogi , Murilo S. Baptista

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

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