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We study the onset of synchronization in lattices of limit cycle oscillators with long-range coupling by means of numerical simulations. In this regime the critical coupling strength depends on the system size and interaction range…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. S. O. Massunaga , M. Bahiana

We describe simulations of a microscopic elastic filament immersed in a fluid and subject to a uniform external force. Our method accounts for the hydrodynamic coupling between the flow generated by the filament and the friction force it…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Cosentino Lagomarsino , I. Pagonabarraga , C. P. Lowe

Experimental observations of typical kinds of synchronization transitions are reported in unidirectionally coupled time-delay electronic circuits with a threshold nonlinearity and two time delays, namely feedback delay $\tau_1$ and coupling…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-07-12 Srinivasan. k , Senthilkumar D. V. , Murali. K , Lakshmanan. M , Kurths. J

The Kuramoto model captures various synchronization phenomena in biological and man-made systems of coupled oscillators. It is well-known that there exists a critical coupling strength among the oscillators at which a phase transition from…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-05-06 Florian Dorfler , Francesco Bullo

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

The present paper explores the synchronization scenario of hyperchaotic time-delayed electronic oscillators coupled indirectly via a common environment. We show that depending upon the coupling parameters a hyperchaotic time-delayed system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-23 Tanmoy Banerjee , Debabrata Biswas

We experimentally demonstrate the occurrence of various synchronized states in coupled piece-wise linear time-delayed electronic circuits using dynamic environment coupling where the environment has its own intrinsic dynamics via feedback…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Suresh , K. Srinivasan , D. V. Senthilkumar , K. Murali , M. Lakshmanan , J. Kurths

We consider the nonlinear extension of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators where the phase shift in the coupling function depends on the order parameter. A bifurcation analysis of the transition from fully synchronous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksandr Burylko , Arkady Pikovsky

Non-equilibrium processes which convert chemical energy into mechanical motion enable the motility of organisms. Bundles of inextensible filaments driven by energy transduction of molecular motors form essential components of micron-scale…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-13 Abhrajit Laskar , Rajeev Singh , Somdeb Ghose , Gayathri Jayaraman , P. B. Sunil Kumar , R. Adhikari

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

Buckling plays a critical role in the transport and dynamics of elastic microfilaments in Stokesian fluids. However, previous work has only considered filaments with homogeneous structural properties. Filament backbone stiffness can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-01-20 Thomas Nguyen , Harishankar Manikantan

Tailoring the nanomorphology of organic photoactive layers through a specialized chain of processing steps is an imperative challenge on the path towards reliable and performant organic electronic manufacturing. This hurdle generally proves…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Maxime Siber , Olivier J. J. Ronsin , Gitti L. Frey , Jens Harting

We survey the theory synchronization in collections of noisy oscillators. This framework is applied to flagellar synchronization by hydrodynamic interactions. The time-reversibility of hydrodynamics at low Reynolds numbers prompts swimming…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-11-23 B. M. Friedrich

We define a model microswimmer with a variable cycle time, thus allowing the possibility of phase locking driven by hydrodynamic interactions between swimmers. We find that, for extensile or contractile swimmers, phase locking does occur,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Victor B. Putz , Julia M. Yeomans

The stability analysis of synchronization patterns on generalized network structures is of immense importance nowadays. In this article, we scrutinize the stability of intralayer synchronous state in temporal multilayer hypernetworks, where…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-16 Md Sayeed Anwar , Sarbendu Rakshit , Dibakar Ghosh , Erik M. Bollt

Recently, the first-order synchronization transition has been studied in systems of coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the synchronization in the frequency-weighted Kuramoto model with all-to-all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-18 Can Xu , Yuting Sun , Jian Gao , Tian Qiu , Zhigang Zheng , Shuguang Guan

Myosin motor proteins drive vigorous steady-state fluctuations in the actin cytoskeleton of cells. Endogenous embedded semiflexible filaments such as microtubules, or added filaments such as single-walled carbon nanotubes are used as novel…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 J. Gladrow , N. Fakhri , F. C. MacKintosh , C. F. Schmidt , C. P. Broedersz

Carpets of actively bending cilia represent arrays of biological oscillators that can exhibit self-organized metachronal synchronization in the form of traveling waves of cilia phase. This metachronal coordination supposedly enhances fluid…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Anton Solovev , Benjamin M. Friedrich

The spontaneous emergence of coherent behavior through synchronization plays a key role in neural function, and its anomalies often lie at the basis of pathologies. Here we employ a parsimonious (mesoscopic) approach to study analytically…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-09-30 Pablo Villegas , Paolo Moretti , Miguel A. Muñoz

We report a new oscillatory form in the two coupled dissipative Rydberg atomic chains by modulating its spacing. Such oscillation has $\pi$-phase difference between two neighboring sites, which distinguishes itself from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Weilun Jiang