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The unicellular microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (CR) is well known for its bi-flagellated swimming in response to light stimuli. This work aims to study the resynchronization of CR flagella after a high light intensity stimulus, known…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Lucas Federspiel , Jorge Arrieta , Marco Polin , Francoise Argoul , Antoine Allard

Inter-layer synchronization is a dynamical state occurring in multi-layer networks composed of identical nodes. The state corresponds to have all layers synchronized, with nodes in each layer which do not necessarily evolve in unison. So…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-10-06 I. Leyva , R. Sevilla-Escoboza , I. Sendiña-Nadal , R. Gutiérrez , J. M. Buldú , S. Boccaletti

Multiple organs in a living system respond to environmental changes, and the signals from the organs regulate the physiological environment. Inspired by this biological feedback, we propose a simple autonomous system of active rotators to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-02 Taegeun Song , Heetae Kim , Seung-Woo Son , Junghyo Jo

Based on recent advances in fibration symmetry theory, we investigate how structural symmetries influence synchronization in systems with higher-order interactions (HOI). Using bipartite graph representations, we identify a node partition…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Margherita Bertè , Tommaso Gili

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

A rationale is provided for the emergence of synchronization in a system of coupled oscillators in a stick-slip motion. The single oscillator has a limit cycle in a region of the state space for each parameter set beyond the supercritical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-17 Nozomi Sugiura , Takane Hori , Yoji Kawamura

Complex multiplex networks consist of several subnetwork layers, which interact via pairwise inter-layer connections. Relay synchronization between distant layers which are not directly connected, but only via a relay layer, can be observed…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-07-24 Marius Winkler , Jakub Sawicki , Iryna Omelchenko , Anna Zakharova , Vadim Anishchenko , Eckehard Schöll

Systems with two species of active molecular motors moving on (cytoskeletal) filaments into opposite directions are studied theoretically using driven lattice gas models. The motors can unbind from and rebind to the filaments. Two motors…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Klumpp , Reinhard Lipowsky

Partial synchronous states appear between full synchrony and asynchrony and exhibit many interesting properties. Most frequently, these states are studied within the framework of phase approximation. The latter is used ubiquitously to…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-30 Erik Teichmann

Active filaments, such as microtubules with attached cargo-carrying motor proteins, are important dynamic structures for fluid transport in and around living cells. The mathematical models of active filaments appearing in the literature…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-19 Ilteber R. Ozdemir , Bethany Clarke , Yongyun Hwang , Eric E. Keaveny

The Kuramoto model with mixed signs of couplings is known to produce a traveling-wave synchronized state. Here, we consider an abrupt synchronization transition from the incoherent state to the traveling-wave state through a long-lasting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-22 Jinha Park , B. Kahng

Coupled oscillators have been used to study synchronization in a wide range of social, biological, and physical systems, including pedestrian-induced bridge resonances, coordinated lighting up of firefly swarms, and enhanced output peak…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-01 Can Xu , Xiaohuan Tang , Huaping Lü , Karin Alfaro-Bittner , Stefano Boccaletti , Matjaz Perc , Shuguang Guan

The mechanism of synchronization of oscillations in two identical coupled flow systems has beenstudied. The time (past the coupling onset) during which a synchronous oscillation regime is establisheddepends on the oscillation phase…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. A. Koronovskii , A. E. Hramov , I. A. Khromova

Cellular locomotion often involves the motion of thin, elastic filaments, such as cilia and flagella, in viscous environments. The manuscript serves as a general introduction to the topic of modelling microscale elastohydrodynamics. We…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-15 Maciej Lisicki

An electronic implementation referring to fireflies ensembles flashing in synchrony in a self-organization mode, shows the details of the phase-locking mechanism and how the phases between the electronic oscillators are related to their…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Luc Guisset , Jean-Louis Deneubourg , Gonzalo Marcelo Ramirez-Avila

A density oscillator is a fluid system in which oscillatory flow occurs between different density fluids through the pore connecting them. We investigate the synchronization in coupled density oscillators using two-dimensional hydrodynamic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-03-27 Nana Takeda , Hiroaki Ito , Hiroyuki Kitahata

Most motile bacteria swim in viscous fluids by rotating multiple helical flagellar filaments. These semi-rigid filaments repeatedly join ('bundle') and separate ('unbundle'), resulting in a two-gait random walk-like motion of the cell. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-18 Alexander Chamolly , Eric Lauga

Spontaneous synchronisation is a collective phenomenon that can occur in both dynamical classical and quantum systems. Here, we analyse the spontaneous synchronisation dynamics of vibrations assisting energy transfer in a bio-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Eukaryotic cilia and flagella are chemo-mechanical oscillators capable of generating long-range coordinated motions known as metachronal waves. Pair synchronization is a fundamental requirement for these collective dynamics, but it is…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Douglas R. Brumley , Nicolas Bruot , Jurij Kotar , Raymond E. Goldstein , Pietro Cicuta , Marco Polin

Many bacteria use rotating helical flagellar filaments to swim. The filaments undergo polymorphic transformations in which the helical pitch and radius change abruptly. These transformations arise in response to mechanical loading, changes…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-26 Srikanth V. Srigiriraju , Thomas R. Powers