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A paradigmatic framework to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization is provided by the Kuramoto model comprising a large collection of limit-cycle oscillators of distributed frequencies that are globally coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-08 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

We present an alternative approach to finite-size effects around the synchronization transition in the standard Kuramoto model. Our main focus lies on the conditions under which a collective oscillatory mode is well defined. For this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-04-04 Franziska Peter , Arkady Pikovsky

The Kuramoto model is the simplest case of globally coupled phase oscillators with a purely sinusoidal fundamental-harmonic phase coupling function, whose dynamical properties have been extensively studied. While coupled phase oscillators…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-18 Norihisa Namura , Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is classically studied via the Kuramoto model, whose intrinsic nonlinearity limits analytical tractability and complicates control design. Complex-valued extensions circumvent this by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Lorenzo Giordano , Josep M. Olm , Mario di Bernardo

We consider a long-range model of coupled phase-only oscillators subject to a local potential and evolving in presence of thermal noise. The model is a non-trivial generalization of the celebrated Kuramoto model of collective…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-01-04 Alessandro Campa , Shamik Gupta

The behavior of weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators can often be well described by phase equations. Here we use the paradigm of Kuramoto phase oscillators which are coupled in a network to calculate first and second order corrections…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-25 R. Toenjes , B. Blasius

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 generalize the Kuramoto model by interpreting the $N$ variables on the unit circle as eigenvalues of a $N$-dimensional unitary matrix $U$, in three versions: general unitary, symmetric unitary and special orthogonal. The time evolution…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-30 Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

Many studies of synchronization properties of coupled oscillators, based on the classical Kuramoto approach, focus on ensembles coupled via a mean field. Here we introduce a setup of Kuramoto-type phase oscillators coupled via two mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-19 Xiyun Zhang , Arkady Pikovsky , Zonghua Liu

We study chaotic behavior of order parameters in two coupled ensembles of self-sustained oscillators. Coupling within each of these ensembles is switched on and off alternately, while the mutual interaction between these two subsystems is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sergey P. Kuznetsov , Arkady Pikovsky , Michael Rosenblum

We explore chaos in the Kuramoto model with multimodal distributions of the natural frequencies of oscillators and provide a comprehensive description under what conditions chaos occurs. For a natural frequency distribution with $M$ peaks…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-07 Lachlan D. Smith , Georg A. Gottwald

The Kuramoto model is a paradigmatic model of collective synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. Although its mathematical properties have been extensively investigated, exact phase trajectories from arbitrary initial conditions have…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-14 Keisuke Taga

Despite being under intense scrutiny for 50 years, the Kuramoto oscillator model has remained a quintessential representative of non-equilibrium phase transitions. One of the reasons for its enduring relevance is the apparent lack of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Sherwin Kouchekian , Razvan Teodorescu

The Kuramoto model has become a paradigm to describe the dynamics of nonlinear oscillator under the influence of external perturbations, both deterministic and stochastic. It is based on the idea to describe the oscillator dynamics by a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-09 Michele Bonnin

The Kuramoto model has provided deep insights into synchronization phenomena and remains an important paradigm to study the dynamics of coupled oscillators. Yet, despite its success, the asynchronous regime in the Kuramoto model has…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Yagmur Kati , Jonas Ranft , Benjamin Lindner

The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigm for describing spontaneous synchronization in a system of classical interacting rotors. In this study, we extend this model to the quantum domain by coupling quantum interacting rotors to external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Anna Delmonte , Alessandro Romito , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Rosario Fazio

We consider the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators, specifically the case of tree networks, for which we prove a simple closed-form expression for the critical coupling. For several classes of tree, and for both uniform and Gaussian…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-06-04 Anthony H. Dekker , Richard Taylor

We introduce a novel coupling scheme for maximizing the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillator networks under a fixed coupling budget. We show that by scaling the interaction strength between oscillators according to their frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Amit Pando , Eran Bernstein , Tomer Hacohen , Nathan Vigne , Hui Cao , Oren Raz , Asher Friesem , Nir Davidson

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is often described using the Kuramoto model. Here we study a generalization of the Kuramoto model where oscillators communicate with each other through an external medium. This generalized model…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 David J. Schwab , Gabriel G. Plunk , Pankaj Mehta

Synchronizing phase frustrated Kuramoto oscillators, a challenge that has found applications from neuronal networks to the power grid, is an eluding problem, as even small phase-lags cause the oscillators to avoid synchronization. Here we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-19 Prosenjit Kundu , Chittaranjan Hens , Baruch Barzel , Pinaki Pal