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We investigate synchronization in complex networks of noisy phase oscillators. We find that, while too weak a coupling is not sufficient for the whole system to synchronize, too strong a coupling induces a nontrivial type of phase slip…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-07-27 Yasuaki Kobayashi , Hiroshi Kori

Following the long-lived qualitative-dynamics tradition of explaining behavior in complex systems via the architecture of their attractors and basins, we investigate the patterns of switching between qualitatively distinct trajectories in a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-09-02 Jeffrey Emenheiser , Airlie Chapman , Márton Pósfai , James P. Crutchfield , Mehran Mesbahi , Raissa M. D'Souza

Nonlinear oscillators can mutually synchronize when they are driven by common external impulses. Two important scenarios are (i) synchronization resulting from phase locking of each oscillator to regular periodic impulses and (ii)…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Shigefumi Hata , Takeaki Shimokawa , Kensuke Arai , Hiroya Nakao

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

We study synchronization dynamics of a population of pulse-coupled oscillators. In particular, we focus our attention in the interplay between networks topological disorder and its synchronization features. Firstly, we analyze…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. Guardiola , A. Diaz-Guilera , M. Llas , C. J. Perez

Identifying key players in a set of coupled individual systems is a fundamental problem in network theory. Its origin can be traced back to social sciences and led to ranking algorithms based on graph theoretic centralities. Coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-06-17 Melvyn Tyloo , Laurent Pagnier , Philippe Jacquod

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

We investigate macroscopic behavior of a dynamical network consisting of a time-evolving wiring of interactions among a group of random walkers. We assume that each walker (agent) has an oscillator and show that depending upon the nature of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-07-06 Soumen Majhi , Dibakar Ghosh

In complex networks, interactions between multiple agents give rise to an array of intricate global dynamics, ranging from synchronization to cluster formations. Decoding the connectivity structure as well as the types of interactions from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-25 Shicheng Li , Bharat Singhal , Jr-Shin Li

We study synchronization of $N$ oscillators indirectly coupled through a medium which is inhomogeneous and has its own dynamics. The system is formalized in terms of a multilayer network, where the top layer is made of disconnected…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-24 Lucia Valentina Gambuzza , Mattia Frasca , Jesus Gomez-Gardeñes

There are three key factors of a system of coupled oscillators that characterize the interaction among them: coupling (how to affect), delay (when to affect) and topology (whom to affect). For each of them, the existing work has mainly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

Recently, the synchronization of coupled quantum oscillators has attracted a great deal of interest. Synchronization requires driven constituents, and in such systems, the coupling can be designed to be nonreciprocal. Nonreciprocally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Tobias Kehrer , Christoph Bruder

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

In this article I investigate the novel synchronization behaviors of evolving pulse-coupled oscillator networks. Unlike previous models, the time-varying mechanism is inspired by neural network development, where seldom used links die out…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-04-15 Yuanzhao Zhang

Experimental studies of synchronization properties on networks with controlled connection topology can provide powerful insights into the physics of complex networks. Here, we report experimental results on the influence of connection…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-28 Bhargava Ravoori , Adam B. Cohen , Jie Sun , Adilson E. Motter , Thomas E. Murphy , Rajarshi Roy

We study the emergence of synchronisation in a chiral network of harmonic oscillators. The network consists of a set of locally incoherently pumped harmonic oscillators coupled pairwise in cascade with travelling field modes. Such cascaded…

Coupled oscillator networks often display transitions between qualitatively different phase-locked solutions -- such as synchrony and rotating wave solutions -- following perturbation or parameter variation. In the limit of weak coupling,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Jorge L. Ocampo-Espindola , István Z. Kiss , Christian Bick , Kyle C. A. Wedgwood

The paper develops new sufficient conditions for synchronization of a network of $N$ nonlinearly coupled Chua oscillators interconnected via the first state coordinate only. The nonlinear coupling strength is governed by a function residing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Petro Feketa , Alexander Schaum , Thomas Meurer , Denis Michaelis , Karl-Heinz Ochs

A mutual synchronization of spin-torque oscillators coupled through current injection is studied theoretically. Models of electrical coupling in parallel and series circuits are proposed. Solving the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Sumito Tsunegi , Hitoshi Kubota

Synchronization is the process of achieving identical dynamics among coupled identical units. If the units are different from each other, their dynamics cannot become identical; yet, after transients, there may emerge a functional…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-09 Aditya Tandon , Malte Schröder , Manu Mannattil , Marc Timme , Sagar Chakraborty