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A system's response to external periodic changes can provide crucial information about its dynamical properties. We investigate the synchronization transition, an archetypical example of a dynamic phase transition, in the framework of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 Sang Hoon Lee , Sungmin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Petter Holme

Ecological systems, as is often noted, are complex. Equally notable is the generalization that complex systems tend to be oscillatory, whether Huygens simple patterns of pendulum entrainment or the twisted chaotic orbits of Lorenz…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-30 John Vandermeer , Zachary Hajian-Forooshani , Nicholas Medina , Ivette Perfecto

We introduce a novel coupling scheme for maximizing the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillator networks under a fixed coupling budget. We show that by scaling the interaction strength between oscillators according to their frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Amit Pando , Eran Bernstein , Tomer Hacohen , Nathan Vigne , Hui Cao , Oren Raz , Asher Friesem , Nir Davidson

Collective behavior in large ensembles of dynamical units with non-pairwise interactions may play an important role in several systems ranging from brain function to social networks. Despite recent work pointing to simplicial structure,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-06-26 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

Understanding how large complex networks achieve synchronization is a problem of fundamental interest, and is typically studied in the asymptotic steady-state regime. In contrast, this study investigates how higher-order interactions affect…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-10 Dhrubajyoti Biswas , Pintu Patra , Arpan Banerjee

Coordination is ubiquitous in living systems. Existing theoretical models of coordination -- from bacteria to brains -- focus on either gross statistics in large-scale systems ($N\rightarrow\infty$) or detailed dynamics in small-scale…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mengsen Zhang , Christopher Beetle , J. A. Scott Kelso , Emmanuelle Tognoli

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is often described using the Kuramoto model. Here we study a generalization of the Kuramoto model where oscillators communicate with each other through an external medium. This generalized model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 David J. Schwab , Gabriel G. Plunk , Pankaj Mehta

A key challenge of nonlinear dynamics and network science is to understand how higher-order interactions influence collective dynamics. Although many studies have approached this question through linear stability analysis, less is known…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-07 Yuanzhao Zhang , Per Sebastian Skardal , Federico Battiston , Giovanni Petri , Maxime Lucas

Higher-order interactions shape collective dynamics, but how they affect transitions between different states in swarmalator systems is yet to be determined. To that effect, we here study an analytically tractable swarmalator model that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-04-11 Md Sayeed Anwar , Gourab Kumar Sar , Matjaz Perc , Dibakar Ghosh

Recently, Antonioni and Cardillo proposed a coevolutionary model based on the intertwining of oscillator synchronization and evolutionary game theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{118}, 238301 (2017)], in which each Kuramoto oscillator can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-15 Han-Xin Yang , Tao Zhou , Zhi-Xi Wu

Explosive synchronization refers to an abrupt (first order) transition to non-zero phase order parameter in oscillatory networks, underpinned by the bistability of synchronous and asynchronous states. Growing evidence suggests that this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-20 Tetyana Laptyeva , Sarika Jalan , Mikhail Ivanchenko

Across natural and human-made systems, transition points mark sudden changes of order and are thus key to understanding overarching system features. Motivated by recent experimental observations, we here uncover an intriguing class of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lennart J. Kuklinski , Marc Timme

Despite being under intense scrutiny for 50 years, the Kuramoto oscillator model has remained a quintessential representative of non-equilibrium phase transitions. One of the reasons for its enduring relevance is the apparent lack of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Sherwin Kouchekian , Razvan Teodorescu

Many real-world systems of coupled agents exhibit directed interactions, meaning that the influence of an agent on another is not reciprocal. Furthermore, interactions usually do not have identical amplitude and/or sign. To describe…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-13 Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod , Florian Dörfler

We propose a generalization of the Kuramoto model of interacting oscillators in which the particles move on the surface of a $D$-dimensional torus. In contrast with the traditional one-dimensional version, this model has a first order phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-05 Marcel Novaes

Impact of noise in coupled oscillators with pairwise interactions has been extensively explored. Here, we study stochastic second-order coupled Kuramoto oscillators with higher-order interactions, and show that as noise strength increases…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-23 Priyanka Rajwani , Sarika Jalan

We present a novel interdisciplinary framework that bridges synchronization theory and multi-agent AI systems by adapting the Kuramoto model to describe the collective dynamics of heterogeneous AI agents engaged in complex task execution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chiranjit Mitra

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

Networks of coupled oscillators are some of the most studied objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Two important areas of current interest are the study of synchrony in highly disordered systems and the modeling of systems with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-07 Matthew Ricci , Minju Jung , Yuwei Zhang , Mathieu Chalvidal , Aneri Soni , Thomas Serre

Simplicial complexes capture the underlying network topology and geometry of complex systems ranging from the brain to social networks. Here we show that algebraic topology is a fundamental tool to capture the higher-order dynamics of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-12 Reza Ghorbanchian , Juan G. Restrepo , Joaquín J. Torres , Ginestra Bianconi