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The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Anna Gallo , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Interaction within an ensemble of coupled nonlinear oscillators induces a variety of collective behaviors. One of the most fascinating is a chimera state which manifests the coexistence of spatially distinct populations of coherent and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-18 Nikita Frolov , Vladimir Maksimenko , Soumen Majhi , Sarbendu Rakshit , Dibakar Ghosh , Alexander Hramov

We consider ensembles of sine-coupled phase oscillators consisting of subpopulations of identical units, with a general heterogeneous coupling between subpopulations. Using the Watanabe-Strogatz ansatz we reduce the dynamics of the ensemble…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-01-11 Arkady Pikovsky , Michael Rosenblum

How do the combined effects of phase frustration, noise, and higher-order interactions govern synchronization in globally coupled heterogeneous Kuramoto oscillators? To address this question, we investigate a globally coupled network of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 Asutosh Anand Singh , Chandrakala Meena

In this work, we explore a new approach to synchronization of coupled oscillators. In contrast to the celebrated Kuramoto model we do not work in polar coordinates and do not consider oscillations of fixed magnitude. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-29 Marcello Colombino , Dominic Groß , Jean-Sébastien Brouillon , Florian Dörfler

The entrainment transition of coupled random frequency oscillators presents a long-standing problem in nonlinear physics. The onset of entrainment in populations of large but finite size exhibits strong sensitivity to fluctuations in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Lei-Han Tang

We present a general theory for the onset of coherence in collections of heterogeneous maps interacting via a complex connection network. Our method allows the dynamics of the individual uncoupled systems to be either chaotic or periodic,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Juan G. Restrepo , Edward Ott , Brian R. Hunt

We establish a unified synchronization framework for the all-to-all hybrid Kuramoto model that couples first- and second-order oscillators within a single dynamical system. Although the Kuramoto model has become one of the most widely used…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Chengbin Zhu

Populations of coupled oscillators can exhibit a wide range of complex dynamical behavior, from complete synchronization to chimera and chaotic states. We can thus expect complex dynamics to arise in networks of such populations. Here we…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-10-14 Pol Floriach , Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo , Pau Clusella

A system's response to external periodic changes can provide crucial information about its dynamical properties. We investigate the synchronization transition, an archetypical example of a dynamic phase transition, in the framework of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 Sang Hoon Lee , Sungmin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Petter Holme

We study synchronization of coupled Kuramoto oscillators with heterogeneous inherent frequencies and general underlying connectivity. We provide conditions on the coupling strength and the initial phases which guarantee the existence of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Andrey Gushchin , Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

An Ott-Antonsen reduced $M$-population of Kuramoto-Sakaguchi oscillators is investigated, focusing on the influence of the phase-lag parameter $\alpha$ on the collective dynamics. For oscillator populations coupled on a ring, we obtained a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-07 Bojun Li , Nariya Uchida

The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigm to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization. We study here a nontrivial generalization of the Kuramoto model by including an interaction that breaks explicitly the rotational…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-30 V K Chandrasekar , M Manoranjani , Shamik Gupta

Synchronization systems with effective inertia, such as power grid networks and coupled electromechanical oscillators, are commonly modeled by the second-order Kuramoto model. In the forward process, numerical simulations exhibit a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-01 Gug Young Kim , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

The mean field Kuramoto model describing the synchronization of a population of phase oscillators with a bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed (by the method of multiple scales) near regions in its phase diagram corresponding to…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 L. L. Bonilla , C. J. Perez Vicente , R. Spigler

A key challenge of nonlinear dynamics and network science is to understand how higher-order interactions influence collective dynamics. Although many studies have approached this question through linear stability analysis, less is known…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-07 Yuanzhao Zhang , Per Sebastian Skardal , Federico Battiston , Giovanni Petri , Maxime Lucas

We explore large populations of phase oscillators interacting via random coupling functions. Two types of coupling terms, the Kuramoto-Daido coupling and the Winfree coupling, are considered. Under the assumption of statistical independence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-19 Arkady Pikovsky , Lev A. Smirnov

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

We study synchronization phenomenon in a self-correcting population of noisy phase oscillators with randomly distributed natural frequencies. In our model each oscillator stochastically switches its phase to the ensemble-averaged value…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-03-17 Sergey Belan

We investigate the emergence of synchronization in the second-order Kuramoto model with adaptive simplicial interactions on a globally connected network. This inertial Kuramoto framework describes systems, where oscillator frequencies…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-14 Priyanka Rajwani , Sarika Jalan