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We consider the inertial Kuramoto model of $N$ globally coupled oscillators characterized by both their phase and angular velocity, in which there is a time delay in the interaction between the oscillators. Besides the academic interest, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-05-29 David Métivier , Lucas Wetzel , Shamik Gupta

Non-linearity and finite signal propagation speeds are omnipresent in nature, technologies, and real-world problems, where efficient ways of describing and predicting the effects of these elements are in high demand. Advances in engineering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-20 Julian D. Töpfer , Helgi Sigurdsson , Lucinda Pickup , Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

A modified Kuramoto model of synchronization in a finite discrete system of locally coupled oscillators is studied. The model consists of N oscillators with random natural frequencies arranged on a ring. It is shown analytically and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-30 J. Ochab , P. F. Góra

The synchronization phenomenon is ubiquitous in nature. In ensembles of coupled oscillators, explosive synchronization is a particular type of transition to phase synchrony that is first-order as the coupling strength increases. Explosive…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-23 Inmaculada Leyva , Cristina Masoller

We demonstrate that the synchronization of a lattice of solid-state condensates when inter-site tunnelling is switched on, depends strongly on the weak local disorder. This finding is vital for implementation of condensate arrays as…

We study synchronization of locally coupled noisy phase oscillators which move diffusively in a one-dimensional ring. Together with the disordered and the globally synchronized states, the system also exhibits several wave-like states which…

Biological Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Fernando Peruani , Ernesto M. Nicola , Luis G. Morelli

We describe how the transition to synchronization in a system of globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators changes from continuous to discontinuous when the nature of the coupling is moved from diffusive to reactive. We explain this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Chaoqing Wang , Nicolas B. Garnier

Globally coupled phase oscillator models, such as the Kuramoto model, exhibit spontaneous collective synchronization. Such models can be restated in terms of interactions within and between subsets of oscillators. An approximation for the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 David Mertens

In this work, we study the synchronization of coupled phase oscillators on the underlying topology of scale-free networks. In particular, we assume that each network's component is an oscillator and that each interacts with the others…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Amalio F. Pacheco

The present paper introduces a linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model describing a self-synchronizing phase transition in a system of globally coupled oscillators that in general have different characteristic frequencies. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-03-18 David C. Roberts

Critical points and phase transitions are characterized by diverging susceptibilities, reflecting the tendency of the system toward spontaneous symmetry breaking. Equilibrium statistical mechanics bounds these instabilities to occur at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Orazio Scarlatella , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schiró

Synchronization is an omnipresent collective phenomenon in nature and technology, whose understanding is in particular for real-world systems still elusive. We study the synchronization transition in a phase oscillator system with two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-02 Rico Berner , Annie Lu , Igor M. Sokolov

Inspired by the recent experimental observation of strongly coupled polaritons in a Moir\'e heterobilayer, we study a model of dipole-interacting excitons localized on sites of a lattice and coupled to planar cavity photons. We calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Edelman , Peter B. Littlewood

The transition to synchrony in the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators with a uniform distribution of natural frequencies is discontinuous. We extend the theory of this transition to the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model, taking…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-14 Arkady Pikovsky

A generalized Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators with slowly varying coupling matrix is studied. The dynamics of the coupling coefficients is driven by the phase difference of pairs of oscillators in such a way that the coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Seliger , Stephen C. Young , Lev S. Tsimring

The phase and the frequency of an exciton polariton condensate excited by a nonresonant pump can be efficiently manipulated by an external coherent light. Being tuned close to the resonance with the condensate eigenfrequency, the external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 I. Y. Chestnov , A. V. Kanokin , A. V. Yulin

We generalize the Kuramoto model for coupled phase oscillators by allowing the frequencies to drift in time according to Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics. Such drifting frequencies were recently measured in cellular populations of circadian…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Jacques Rougemont , Felix Naef

By means of numerical integration we investigate the coherent and incoherent phases in a generalized Kuramoto model of phase-coupled oscillators with distance-dependent delay. Preserving the topology of a complete graph, we arrange the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-04 Karol Trojanowski , Lech Longa

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 study a generalized Kuramoto model in which each oscillator carries two coupled phase variables, representing a minimal swarmalator system. Assuming perfect correlation between the intrinsic frequencies associated with each phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Hyunsuk Hong , Jae Sung Lee , Hyunggyu Park