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Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-02-02 Dimitrios Prousalis , Lucas Wetzel

Synchronization in a group of linear time-invariant systems is studied where the coupling between each pair of systems is characterized by a different output matrix. Simple methods are proposed to generate a (separate) linear coupling gain…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-05-04 S. Emre Tuna

Synchronization is the spontaneous alignment of the dynamics of weakly-coupled oscillators. In addition to temporal dynamics like periodic and chaotic oscillations, also the spatio-temporal dynamics of spatially-extended systems like…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jules Mercadier , Stefan Bittner , Marc Sciamanna

The dynamics of three mutually coupled cortical neurons with time delays in the coupling are explored numerically and analytically. The neurons are coupled in a line, with the middle neuron sending a somewhat stronger projection to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-01-25 Alexandra S. Landsman , Ira B. Schwartz

We study synchronization of an array of rotors on a substrate that are coupled by hydrodynamic interaction. The rotors that are modeled by an effective rigid body, are driven by an internal torque and exerts an active force on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-04-29 Nariya Uchida , Ramin Golestanian

The structure of many real-world systems is best captured by networks consisting of several interaction layers. Understanding how a multi-layered structure of connections affects the synchronization properties of dynamical systems evolving…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-17 Charo I. del Genio , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Ivan Bonamassa , Stefano Boccaletti

Synchronization is studied in an array of identical linear oscillators of arbitrary order, coupled through a dynamic network comprising dissipative connectors (e.g., dampers) and restorative connectors (e.g., springs). The coupling network…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-06-21 S. Emre Tuna

We study discrete Laplacians on two-dimensional lattices under modular iterations, focusing on the emergence of nontrivial large-scale patterns. While purely binary or constant modular sequences quickly collapse into strict periodicity, the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Małgorzata Nowak-Kępczyk

Active fluids, such as cytoskeletal filaments, bacterial colonies and epithelial cell layers, exhibit distinctive orientational coherence, often characterized by nematic order and topological defects. By contrast, little is known about…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-07 Mattia Serra , Linnea Lemma , Luca Giomi , Zvonimir Dogic , L. Mahadevan

Small networks of chaotic units which are coupled by their time-delayed variables, are investigated. In spite of the time delay, the units can synchronize isochronally, i.e. without time shift. Moreover, networks can not only synchronize…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Johannes Kestler , Evi Kopelowitz , Ido Kanter , Wolfgang Kinzel

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is observed in many natural and engineered systems and emerges due to the interactions within the system. It can be both beneficial, e.g., in power grids, and harmful, e.g., in epileptic seizures. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-18 Martin Moriamé , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Maxime Lucas

In past works, various schemes for adaptive synchronization of chaotic systems have been proposed. The stability of such schemes is central to their utilization. As an example addressing this issue, we consider a recently proposed adaptive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-14 Francesco Sorrentino , Gilad Barlev , Adam B. Cohen , Edward Ott

Numerical and experimental evidence is presented to show that many phase synchronized systems of non-identical chaotic oscillators, where the chaotic state is reached through a period-doubling cascade, show rapid convergence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jörn Davidsen , István Z. Kiss , John L. Hudson , Raymond Kapral

This paper presents an application of partial contraction analysis to the study of global synchronization in discrete chaotic systems. Explicit sufficient conditions on the coupling strength of networks of discrete oscillators are derived.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Juan C. Botero , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine

The problem of synchronization of coupled Hamiltonian systems exhibits interesting features due to the non-uniform or mixed nature (regular and chaotic) of the phase space. We study these features by investigating the synchronization of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-05-26 Swetamber Das , Sasibhusan Mahata , Neelima Gupte

The features of animal population dynamics, for instance, flocking and migration, are often synchronized for survival under large-scale climate change or perceived threats. These coherent phenomena have been explained using synchronization…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-09 Jinha Park , B. Kahng

We investigate synchronization of coupled organ pipes. Synchronization and reflection in the organ lead to undesired weakening of the sound in special cases. Recent experiments have shown that sound interaction is highly complex and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-14 Jakub Sawicki , Markus Abel , Eckehard Schöll

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

Synchronization is a fundamental dynamical state of interacting oscillators, observed in natural biological rhythms and in the brain. Global synchronization which occurs when non-linear or chaotic oscillators placed on the nodes of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-22 Timoteo Carletti , Lorenzo Giambagli , Riccardo Muolo , Ginestra Bianconi

Effects of synchronization in a system of two coupled oscillators with time-delayed feedback are investigated. Phase space of a system with time delay is infinite-dimensional. Thus, the picture of synchronization in such systems acquires…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-06 Yulia P. Emelianova , Valeriy V. Emelyanov , Nikita M. Ryskin