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We investigate a generalized Kuramoto phase-oscillator model with Hebb-like couplings that evolve according to a stochastic differential equation on various topologies. Numerical simulations show that even with identical oscillators, there…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-15 A. Isakov , L. Mahadevan

After decades of study, there are only two known mechanisms to induce global synchronization in a population of oscillators: deterministic coupling and common forcing. The inclusion of independent random forcing in these models typically…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-31 Jeremy Worsfold , Tim Rogers

The Kuramoto model describes synchronization behavior among coupled oscillators and enjoys successful application in a wide variety of fields. Many of these applications seek phase-coherent solutions, i.e., equilibria of the model.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Owen Coss , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Hoon Hong , Daniel K. Molzahn

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

The Kuramoto model has been introduced in order to describe synchronization phenomena observed in groups of cells, individuals, circuits, etc... We look at the Kuramoto model with white noise forces: in mathematical terms it is a set of N…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-14 Lorenzo Bertini , Giambattista Giacomin , Khashayar Pakdaman

Networks of coupled nonlinear oscillators have been used to model circadian rhythms, flashing fireflies, Josephson junction arrays, high-voltage electric grids, and many other kinds of self-organizing systems. Recently, several authors have…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Shriya V. Nagpal , Gokul G. Nair , Steven H. Strogatz , Francesca Parise

We study the synchronized behavior of the inertial Kuramoto oscillators with frustration effect under a symmetric and connected network. Due to the lack of second-order gradient flow structure and singularity of second-order derivative of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Tingting Zhu , Xiongtao Zhang

We study the collective synchronized behavior of the Kuramoto model with inertia and frustration effects on a connected and symmetric network. We aim to establish sufficient frameworks for achieving complete frequency synchronization,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Tingting Zhu , Xiongtao Zhang

We study the nonconvex optimization landscapes of synchronization problems on spheres. First, we present new results for the statistical problem of synchronization over the two-element group $\mathbf{Z}_2$. We consider the nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Andrew D. McRae

A two-time scale asymptotic method has been introduced to analyze the multimodal mean-field Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model of oscillator synchronization in the high-frequency limit. The method allows to uncouple the probability density in…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 J. A. Acebron , L. L. Bonilla

We study the Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on graphs approximating the Sierpinski gasket (SG). As the size of the graph tends to infinity, the limit points of the sequence of stable equilibria in the KM correspond to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

We study the onset of synchronization in square lattices of limit cycle oscillators with long-range coupling by means of numerical simulations of the Kuramoto model. In this regime the critical coupling strength depends on the system size…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bahiana , M. S. O. Massunaga

The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators on small-world (SW) graphs is analyzed in this work. When the number of oscillators in the network goes to infinity, the model acquires a family of steady state solutions of degree q, called…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 Georgi S. Medvedev

We consider a toy model of two kinetically coupled stochastic oscillators whose dynamics is described as a Markov jump process among $N$ discrete phase states. For large $N$, it maps onto the deterministic two-oscillator Kuramoto model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito , Krzysztof Ptaszynski

We investigate the synchronization transition of the modified Kuramoto model where the oscillators form a scale-free network with degree exponent $\lambda$. An oscillator of degree $k_i$ is coupled to its neighboring oscillators with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Oh , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng , D. Kim

A knot is a circle embedded in the space. Projecting a knot on a plane, we obtain a diagram which is known as the knot diagram. The vertices of the diagram, where the curved lines are crossed, can be considered as sites occupied by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

Networks of coupled oscillators are some of the most studied objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Two important areas of current interest are the study of synchrony in highly disordered systems and the modeling of systems with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-07 Matthew Ricci , Minju Jung , Yuwei Zhang , Mathieu Chalvidal , Aneri Soni , Thomas Serre

The classical Kuramoto model consists of finitely many pairwise coupled oscillators on the circle. In many applications a simple pairwise coupling is not sufficient to describe real-world phenomena as higher-order (or group) interactions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn

This paper gives sufficient conditions for having complete synchronization of oscillators in connected undirected networks. The considered oscillators are not necessarily identical and the synchronization terms can be nonlinear. An…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-10-24 Sébastien Orange , Nathalie Verdière

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