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Electric power-systems are one of the most important critical infrastructures. In recent years, they have been exposed to extreme stress due to the increasing demand, the introduction of distributed renewable energy sources, and the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-07-13 Antonio Scala , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini

For a power system operating in the vicinity of the power transfer limit of its transmission system, effect of stochastic fluctuations of power loads can become critical as a sufficiently strong such fluctuation may activate voltage…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-07 Dmitry Podolsky , Konstantin Turitsyn

Unscheduled islanding events of microgrids result in the transition between grid-connected and islanded modes and induce a sudden and unknown power imbalance, posing a threat to frequency security. To achieve seamless islanding, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Lun Yang , Haoxiang Yang , Xiaoyu Cao , Xiaohong Guan

Forming (hybrid) AC/DC microgrids (MGs) has become a promising manner for the interconnection of various kinds of distributed generators that are inherently AC or DC electric sources. This paper addresses the distributed asynchronous power…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Zhaojian Wang , Shengwei Mei , Feng Liu , Peng Yi , Ming Cao

Power system coherency refers to the phenomenon that machines in a power network exhibit similar frequency responses after disturbances, and is foundational for model reduction and control design. Despite abundant empirical observations,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Yixuan Liu , Yingzhu Liu , Pengcheng You

We have compared the phase synchronization transition of the second order Kuramoto model on 2D lattices and on large, synthetic power grid networks, generated from real data. The latter are weighted, hierarchical modular networks. Due to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-08-15 Géza Ódor , Bálint Hartmann

We consider the problem of probabilistic quantification of dynamical systems that have heavy-tailed characteristics. These heavy-tailed features are associated with rare transient responses due to the occurrence of internal instabilities.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-06-02 Mustafa A. Mohamad , Will Cousins , Themistoklis P. Sapsis

A reliable supply with electric power is vital for our society. Transmission line failures are among the biggest threats for power grid stability as they may lead to a splitting of the grid into mutual asynchronous fragments. New conceptual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-18 Maurizio Titz , Franz Kaiser , Johannes Kruse , Dirk Witthaut

Rotational inertia is stabilizing the frequency of electric power systems against small and large disturbances, but it is also the cause for oscillations between generators. As more and more conventional generators are replaced by renewable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-10 Theodor Borsche , Florian Dörfler

Power systems are globally experiencing an unprecedented growth in size and complexity due to the advent of nonconventional generation and consumption technologies. To navigate computational complexity, power system dynamic models are often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yue Huang , Dixant B. Sapkota , Manish K. Singh

We investigate chaos antisynchronization between two uni-directionally coupled multiple time delay power systems.The results are of certain importance to prevent power black-out in the entire power grid.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-08-24 E. M. Shahverdiev

Fluctuations of the qubit frequencies are one of the major problems to overcome on the way to scalable quantum computers. Of particular importance are fluctuations with the correlation time that exceeds the decoherence time due to decay and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Filip Wudarski , Yaxing Zhang , Alexander Korotkov , A. G. Petukhov , M. I. Dykman

Stochasticity is both exploited and controlled by cells. Although the intrinsic stochasticity inherent in biochemistry is relatively well understood, cellular variation, or 'noise', is predominantly generated by interactions of the system…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-18 Vahid Shahrezaei , Julien F Ollivier , Peter S Swain

We study the effect of a weak random additive noise in a linear chain of N locally-coupled logistic maps at the edge of chaos. Maps tend to synchronize for a strong enough coupling, but if a weak noise is added, very intermittent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alessandro Pluchino , Andrea Rapisarda , Constantino Tsallis

Oscillation synchronization phenomenon is widely observed in natural systems through frequency modulated signals, especially in biological neural networks. Frequency modulation is also one of most widely used technologies in engineering.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-17 Zhiyong Chen

Identifying and controlling decoherence in single electron sources (SES) is important for their applications in quantum information processing. The recent experiments with ultrashort electron pulses [J. D. Fletcher et al., Nat. Commun. 10,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Sungguen Ryu , Rosa López , Llorenç Serra , David Sanchez , Michael Moskalets

Recent studies show indication of the effectiveness of synchronization as a data assimilation tool for small or meso-scale forecast when less number of variables are observed frequently. Our main aim here is to understand the effects of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 Md. Nurujjaman , Sumanth Shivamurthy , Amit Apte , Tanu Singla , P. Parmananda

Non-equilibrium random fluctuations of non-thermal nature are a salient feature of active matter. In this work, we consider the collective excitations of active systems at high density, focusing on a one-dimensional chain of elastically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

Power grid frequency control is a demanding task requiring expensive idle power plants to adapt the supply to the fluctuating demand. An alternative approach is controlling the demand side in such a way that certain appliances modify their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-08-09 E. B. Tchawou Tchuisseu , D. Gomila , D. Brunner , P. Colet

The influence of external fluctuations in phase separation processes is analysed. These fluctuations arise from random variations of an external control parameter. A linear stability analysis of the homogeneous state shows that phase…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Garcia-Ojalvo , A. M. Lacasta , J. M. Sancho , R. Toral