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When placed on an inclined plane, a perfect 2D disk or 3D sphere simply rolls down in a straight line under gravity. But how is the rolling affected if these shapes are irregular or random? Treating the terminal rolling speed as an order…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Daoyuan Qian , Yeonsu Jung , L. Mahadevan

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

Hydrodynamic synchronization provides a general mechanism for the spontaneous emergence of coherent beating states in independently driven mesoscopic oscillators. A complete physical picture of those phenomena is of definite importance to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-29 Nick Koumakis , Roberto Di Leonardo

While hard-sphere models form the foundation of theoretical condensed matter physics, real systems often exhibit some degree of softness. We present a theoretical and numerical study of a class of nearly hard-sphere systems, generalized…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-22 Ulf R. Pedersen

We investigate stochastic resonance (SR) in an ensemble of coupled overdamped bistable oscillators driven by colored noise. The networks incorporate the weighted contributions of both pairwise coupling and 2-simplex coupling. Our findings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-09 Zhongwen Bi , Dan Zhao , Qi Liu , Jürgen Kurths , Yong Xu

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

Motile cilia beat in an asymmetric fashion in order to propel the surrounding fluid. When many cilia are located on a surface, their beating can synchronise such that their phases form metachronal waves. Here, we computationally study a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-09-29 David J. Hickey , Ramin Golestanian , Andrej Vilfan

At sufficiently low temperatures and high densities, repulsive spherical particles in two-dimensions (2d) form close-packed structures with six-fold symmetry. By contrast, when the interparticle interaction has an attractive anisotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-09-13 T. Geigenfeind , C. S. Dias , M. M. Telo da Gama , D. de las Heras , N. A. M. Araújo

We study the effect of coherent propagation of two interacting particles in an effective 2-3-d disordered potential. Our numerical data demonstrate that in dimension $d > 2$, interaction can lead to two--particles delocalization below…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Fausto Borgonovi , Dima Shepelyansky

A continuous transition for a system moving in a three-dimensional (3D) space to moving in a lower-dimensional space, 2D or 1D, can be made by means of an external squeezing potential. A squeeze along one direction gives rise to a 3D to 2D…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2019-09-10 E. Garrido , A. S. Jensen

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Cecilia De Vita , Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang

We analyze two classes of Kuramoto models on spheres that have been introduced in previous studies. Our analysis is restricted to ensembles of identical oscillators with the global coupling. In such a setup, with an additional assumption…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-02 Aladin Crnkić , Vladimir Jaćimović , Marijan Marković

We analyze the simplest model of identical coupled phase oscillators subject to two-body and three-body interactions with permutation symmetry. This model is derived from an ensemble of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators by phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao

We discuss the appareance of ordered structures in assemblies of magnetic particles. The phenomenon occurs when dipolar interactions and the thermal motion of the particles compete, and is mediated by screening and excluded volume effects.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Pastor-Satorras , J. M. Rubi

We study synchronization and noise-induced resonance phenomena in systems of globally coupled oscillators, each possessing finite inertia. The behavior of the order parameter, which measures collective synchronization of the system, is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Hong , M. Y. Choi

Mutually repelling particles form spontaneously ordered clusters when forced into confinement. The clusters may adopt similar spatial arrangements even if the underlying particle interactions are contrastingly different. Here we demonstrate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-13 P. D. S. de Lima , R. De La Cour , K. Gaff , J. M. de Araújo , S. J. Cox , M. S. Ferreira , S. Hutzler

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon encountered in many natural and engineered systems with nonlinear classical dynamics. How synchronization concepts and mechanisms transfer to the quantum realm and whether features are universal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Florian Höhe , Lukas Danner , Ciprian Padurariu , Brecht I. C Donvil , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

We study the decoherence dynamics of dipole-coupled two-level quantum systems in Ramsey-type experiments. We focus on large networks of two-level systems, confined to two spatial dimensions and with positional disorder giving rise to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 M. P. Kwasigroch , N. R. Cooper

The resources required to solve the general interacting quantum N-body problem scale exponentially with N, making the solution of this problem very difficult when N is large. In a previous series of papers we develop an approach for a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-06 Martin Dunn , W. Blake Laing , Derrick Toth , Deborah K. Watson