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The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…
We consider the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators in its continuum limit, with individual frequencies drawn from a distribution with density of class $C^n$ ($n\geq 4$). A criterion for linear stability of the uniform…
A recently proposed dimensional reduction approach for studying synchronization in the Kuramoto model is employed to build optimal network topologies to favor or to suppress synchronization. The approach is based in the introduction of a…
Collective synchronization is often summarized by a complex order parameter $R e^{i\Psi}$, implicitly treating the global phase $\Psi$ as a meaningful macroscopic coordinate. Here we ask when $\Psi$ becomes \emph{operationally well-defined}…
We study robust versions of properties of $(n,d,\lambda)$-graphs, namely, the property of a random sparsification of an $(n,d,\lambda)$-graph, where each edge is retained with probability $p$ independently. We prove such results for the…
The Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on scale free graphs is analyzed in this work. The W-random graph model is used to define a convergent family of sparse graphs with power law degree distribution. For the KM on this…
We study Kuramoto phase oscillators with temporal fluctuations in the frequencies. The infinite-dimensional system can be reduced in a Gaussian approximation to two first-order differential equations. This yields a solution for the…
We analyze populations of Kuramoto oscillators with a particular distribution of natural frequencies. Inspired by networks where there are two groups of nodes with opposite behaviors, as for instance in power-grids where energy is either…
In this study, we present a general framework for comparing two dynamical processes that describe the synchronization of oscillators coupled through networks of the same size. We introduce a measure of dissimilarity defined in terms of a…
We study the phase synchronization of Kuramoto's oscillators in small parts of networks known as motifs. We first report on the system dynamics for the case of a scale-free network and show the existence of a non-trivial critical point. We…
We consider the synchronization of oscillators in complex networks where there is an interplay between the oscillator dynamics and the network topology. Through a remarkable transformation in parameter space and the introduction of virtual…
We investigate in depth the synchronization of coupled oscillators on top of complex networks with different degrees of heterogeneity within the context of the Kuramoto model. In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 034101 (2007)], we…
For any network of identical Kuramoto oscillators with identical positive coupling, there is a critical connectivity above which the system is guaranteed to converge to the in-phase synchronous state, for almost all initial conditions. But…
We propose a framework for achieving perfect synchronization in complex networks of Sakaguchi-Kuramoto oscillators in presence of higher order interactions (simplicial complexes) at a targeted point in the parameter space. It is achieved by…
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…
The mean-field Kuramoto model for synchronization of phase oscillators with an asymmetric bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed. Breaking the reflection symmetry facilitates oscillator synchronization to rotating wave phases. Numerical…
In the context of the celebrated Kuramoto model of globally-coupled phase oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, which serves as a paradigm to investigate spontaneous collective synchronization in many-body interacting systems, we…
Imagine a group of oscillators, each endowed with their own rhythm or frequency, be it the ticking of a biological clock, the swing of a pendulum, or the glowing of fireflies. While these individual oscillators may seem independent of one…
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…
In this paper, we study the convergence to the stable equilibrium for Kuramoto oscillators. Specifically, we derive estimates on the rate of convergence to the global equilibrium for solutions of the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation in a large…