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Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

Many network applications rely on the synchronization of coupled oscillators. For example, such synchronization can provide networked devices with a common temporal reference necessary for coordinating actions or decoding transmitted…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-27 Enrique Mallada , Randy A. Freeman , Ao Tang

The notion of topology in physical systems is associated with the existence of a nonlocal ordering that is insensitive to a large class of perturbations. This brings robustness to the behaviour of the system and can serve as a ground for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-08 Marco Di Liberto , Andreas Kruckenhauser , Peter Zoller , Mikhail A. Baranov

A geometric approach is introduced for understanding the phenomenon of phase synchronization in coupled nonlinear systems in the presence of additive noise. We show that the emergence of cooperative behaviour through a change of stability…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Balakrishnan

Many examples from quantum and classical physics are known where topological protection is responsible for the robustness of the dynamics. Less explored is the role of topological protection in the context of classical oscillatory systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-08-07 Sayantan Nag Chowdhury , Hildegard Meyer-Ortmanns

Finding the conditions that foster synchronization in networked oscillatory systems is critical to understanding a wide range of biological and mechanical systems. However, the conditions proved in the literature for synchronization in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Zahra Aminzare , Biswadip Dey , Elizabeth N. Davison , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses. Recently discovered topological phases of light…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-04 Daria Smirnova , Daniel Leykam , Yidong Chong , Yuri Kivshar

Topological insulators are unique physical structures that are insulators in their bulk, but support currents at their edges which can be unidirectional and topologically protected from scattering on disorder and inhomogeneities. Photonic…

We investigate topological and spectral properties of models of European and US-American power grids and of paradigmatic network models as well as their implications for the synchronization dynamics of phase oscillators with heterogeneous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-29 Max Potratzki , Timo Bröhl , Thorsten Rings , Klaus Lehnertz

In this work, we investigate the synchronization in oscillators with conjugate coupling in which oscillators interact via dissimilar variables. The synchronous dynamics and its stability are investigated theoretically and numerically. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-10-05 Wenchen Han , Mei Zhang , Junzhong Yang

We introduce a novel concept of generalized synchronization, able to encompass the setting of collective synchronized behavior for mutually coupled systems and networking systems featuring complex topologies in their connections. The onset…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-02-19 Olga Moskalenko , Alexey Koronovskii , Alexander Hramov , Stefano Boccaletti

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

Symmetries are ubiquitous in network systems and have profound impacts on the observable dynamics. At the most fundamental level, many synchronization patterns are induced by underlying network symmetry, and a high degree of symmetry is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-02-18 Joseph D. Hart , Yuanzhao Zhang , Rajarshi Roy , Adilson E. Motter

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

Topological signals, i.e., dynamical variables defined on nodes, links, triangles, etc. of higher-order networks, are attracting increasing attention. However the investigation of their collective phenomena is only at its infancy. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-17 Timoteo Carletti , Lorenzo Giambagli , Ginestra Bianconi

Topological photonics has emerged recently as a novel approach for realizing robust optical circuitry, and the study of nonlinear effects in topological photonics is expected to open the door for tunability of photonic structures with…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-12 Daria Smirnova , Lev Smirnov , Daniel Leykam , Yuri Kivshar

We analyze a model for the synchronization of nonlinear oscillators due to reactive coupling and nonlinear frequency pulling motivated by the physics of arrays of nanoscale oscillators. We study the model for the mean field case of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. C. Cross , A. Zumdieck , Ron Lifshitz , J. L. Rogers

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

Topological insulators possess protected boundary states which are robust against disorders and have immense implications in both fermionic and bosonic systems. Harnessing these topological effects in non-equilibrium scenarios is highly…

We present a detailed analysis of a model for the synchronization of nonlinear oscillators due to reactive coupling and nonlinear frequency pulling. We study the model for the mean field case of all-to-all coupling, deriving results for the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 M. C. Cross , J. L. Rogers , Ron Lifshitz , A. Zumdieck