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The ability to achieve coordinated behavior -- engineered or emergent -- on networked systems has attracted widespread interest over several fields. This interest has led to remarkable advances in developing a theoretical understanding of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Hancheng Min , Richard Pates , Enrique Mallada

The contradiction between the fact that many empirical networks possess power-law degree distribution and the finding that network of heterogeneous degree distribution is difficult to synchronize has been a paradox in the study of network…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xingang Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai , Choy Heng Lai

Many real-world systems can be modeled as networks of interacting oscillatory units. Collective dynamics that are of functional relevance for the oscillator network, such as switching between metastable states, arise through the interplay…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Christian Bick

We reply to the recent note "Comment on Synchronization dynamics in non-normal networks: the trade-off for optimality", showing that the authors base their claims mainly on general theoretical arguments that do not necessarily invalidate…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-20 Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

Synchronization dynamics is a phenomenon of great interest in many fields of science. One of the most important fields is neuron dynamics, as synchronization in certain regions of the brain is related to some of the most common mental…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-09 J. Used , J. M. Seoane , I. Bashkirtseva , L. Ryashko , M. A. F. Sanjuán

A form of "remote synchronization" was recently described wherein amplitude fluctuations across a ring of non-identical, non-linear electronic oscillators become entrained into spatially-structured patterns. According to linear models and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-26 Ludovico Minati , Luca Faes , Mattia Frasca , Pawel Oswiecimka , Stanislaw Drozdz

Biological rhythms are generated by pacemaker organs, such as the heart pacemaker organ (the sinoatrial node) and the master clock of the circadian rhythms (the suprachiasmatic nucleus), which are composed of a network of autonomously…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-23 Hiroshi Kori , Yoji Kawamura , Naoki Masuda

Linear stability of synchronized states in networks of delay-coupled oscillators depends on the type of interaction, the network and oscillator properties. For inert oscillator response, found ubiquitously from biology to engineering,…

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

Spontaneous synchronization is a general phenomenon in which a large population of coupled oscillators of diverse natural frequencies self-organize to operate in unison. The phenomenon occurs in physical and biological systems over a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Shamik Gupta , Romain Bachelard , Tarcisio Rocha Filho

Oscillatory dynamics are common features of complex networks, often playing essential roles in regulating function. Across scales from gene regulatory networks to ecosystems, delayed feedback mechanisms are key drivers of system-scale…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-06 Shijie Liu , Jinliang Han , Jianming Liu , Tim Rogers , Yongzheng Sun

There are three key factors of a system of coupled oscillators that characterize the interaction among them: coupling (how to affect), delay (when to affect) and topology (whom to affect). For each of them, the existing work has mainly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

Criticality has been proposed as a mechanism for the emergence of complexity, life, and computation, as it exhibits a balance between robustness and adaptability. In classic models of complex systems where structure and dynamics are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-04 Fernanda Sánchez-Puig , Octavio Zapata , Omar K. Pineda , Gerardo Iñiguez , Carlos Gershenson

As few real systems comprise indistinguishable units, diversity is a hallmark of nature. Diversity among interacting units shapes properties of collective behavior such as synchronization and information transmission. However, the benefits…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-06 Leonardo L. Gollo , Mauro Copelli , James A. Roberts

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

In networks of nonlinear oscillators, symmetries place hard constraints on the system that can be exploited to predict universal dynamical features and steady-states, providing a rare generic organizing principle for far-from-equilibrium…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-03-02 Ian Hunter , Michael M. Norton , Bolun Chen , Chris Simonetti , Maria Eleni Moustaka , Jonathan Touboul , Seth Fraden

Networked dynamical systems are common throughout science in engineering; e.g., biological networks, reaction networks, power systems, and the like. For many such systems, nonlinearity drives populations of identical (or near-identical)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-10 James Koch , Zhao Chen , Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuanzhao Zhang , Steven H. Strogatz

Finding the global minimum in complex networks while avoiding local minima is challenging in many types of networks. We study the dynamics of complex human networks and observed that humans have different methods to avoid local minima than…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-15 Elad Schniderman , Yahav Avraham , Shir Shahal , Hamootal Duadi , Nir Davidson , Moti Fridman

Cluster synchronization is a phenomenon in which oscillators in a given network are partitioned into synchronous clusters. As recently shown, diverse cluster synchronization patterns can be found using network symmetry when the oscillators…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-05-24 Young Sul Cho

The stability of synchronization state in networks of oscillators are studied under the assumption that oscillators and their couplings have slightly mismatched parameters. A generalized master stability function is provided that takes the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-29 Saeed Manaffam , Alireza Seyedi