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The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

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I propose a model of mutually interacting particles on an M-dimensional unit sphere. I derive the dynamics of the particles by extending the dynamics of the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model. The dynamics include a natural-frequency matrix, which…

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We present a collective coordinate approach to describe coupled phase oscillators. We apply the method to study synchronisation in a Kuramoto model. In our approach an N-dimensional Kuramoto model is reduced to an n-dimensional ordinary…

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From biology to social science, the functioning of a wide range of systems is the result of elementary interactions which involve more than two constituents, so that their description has unavoidably to go beyond simple…

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The Ott-Antonsen ansatz shows that, for certain classes of distribution of the natural frequencies in systems of $N$ globally coupled Kuramoto oscillators, the dynamics of the order parameter, in the limit $N\to \infty$, evolves, under…

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We introduce a new model consisting of globally coupled high-dimensional generalized limit-cycle oscillators, which explicitly incorporates the role of amplitude dynamics of individual units in the collective dynamics. In the limit of weak…

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We consider an Individual-Based Model for self-rotating particles interacting through local alignment and investigate its macroscopic limit. This model describes self-propelled particles moving in the plane and trying to synchronize their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-17 Pierre Degond , Giacomo Dimarco , Thi Bich Ngoc Mac

The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is often used to describe synchronization phenomena in nature. Some applications, e.g., quantum synchronization and rigid-body attitude synchronization, involve high-dimensional Kuramoto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

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 present an improved and more accurate numerical scheme for a generalization of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators to the three-dimensional space. The present numerical scheme relies crucially on our observation that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-11 Hyun Keun Lee , Hyunsuk Hong , Joonhyun Yeo

Synchronisation of coupled oscillators is a ubiquitous phenomenon, occurring in topics ranging from biology and physics, to social networks and technology. A fundamental and long-time goal in the study of synchronisation has been to find…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-07-25 Edward J. Hancock , Georg A. Gottwald

Understanding the mechanisms that govern collective synchronization is a paramount task in nonlinear dynamics. While higher-order (many-body) interactions have recently emerged as a powerful framework for capturing collective behaviors,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-19 Narumi Fujii , Keisuke Taga , Riccardo Muolo , Bob Rink , Hiroya Nakao

We investigate the transition from incoherence to global collective motion in a three-dimensional swarming model of agents with helical trajectories, subject to noise and global coupling. Without noise this model was recently proposed as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Chunming Zheng , Ralf Toenjes , Arkady Pikovsky

Watanabe-Strogatz theory provides a low-dimensional description of identical Kuramoto oscillators via the framework of the M\"obius transformation. Here, using the Watanabe-Strogatz theory, we provide a unifying description for a broad…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-20 Jayesh C. Jain , Sarika Jalan

We have studied the dynamics of the paradigmatic Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of identical coupled phase oscilla- tors with various kinds of time-dependent connectivity using Eulerian discretization. We first explore the parameter spaces for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-08-31 Amitava Banerjee , Muktish Acharyya

It is shown that, in the infinite size limit, certain systems of globally coupled phase oscillators display low dimensional dynamics. In particular, we derive an explicit finite set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations for the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Edward Ott , Thomas M. Antonsen

The Kuramoto model is a classical mathematical model in the field of non-linear dynamical systems that describes the evolution of coupled oscillators in a network that may reach a synchronous state. The relationship between the network's…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Pedro Abdalla , Afonso S. Bandeira , Clara Invernizzi

We analyze two classes of Kuramoto models on spheres that have been introduced in previous studies. Our analysis is restricted to ensembles of identical oscillators with the global coupling. In such a setup, with an additional assumption…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-02 Aladin Crnkić , Vladimir Jaćimović , Marijan Marković

We study the dynamics of a generalized version of the famous Kuramoto-Sakaguchi coupled oscillator model. In the classic version of this system, all oscillators are governed by the same ODE, which depends on the order parameter of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-20 Bolun Chen , Jan R. Engelbrecht , Renato Mirollo