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The Kuramoto phase diffusion equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation which describes the spatio-temporal evolution of a phase variable in an oscillatory reaction diffusion system. Synchronization manifests itself in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-03-30 Ralf Toenjes , Bernd Blasius

Models of coupled oscillator networks play an important role in describing collective synchronization dynamics in biological and technological systems. The Kuramoto model describes oscillator's phase evolution and explains the transition…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-06-19 Marios Antonios Gkogkas , Benjamin Jüttner , Christian Kuehn , Erik Andreas Martens

In this paper we address two questions about the synchronization of coupled oscillators in the Kuramoto model with all-to-all coupling. In the first part we use some classical results in convex geometry to prove bounds on the size of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Jared C. Bronski , Thomas E. Carty , Lee DeVille

We present a rigorous mathematical framework establishing the equivalence of four classical notions of synchronization full phase-locking, phase-locking, frequency synchronization, and order parameter synchronization in generalized Kuramoto…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Chengbin Zhu

Recently, the first-order synchronization transition has been studied in systems of coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the synchronization in the frequency-weighted Kuramoto model with all-to-all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-18 Can Xu , Yuting Sun , Jian Gao , Tian Qiu , Zhigang Zheng , Shuguang Guan

We study the Kuramoto model for coupled oscillators. For the case of identical natural frequencies, we give a new proof of the complete frequency synchronization for all initial data; extending this result to the continuous version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-25 Dario Benedetto , Emanuele Caglioti , Umberto Montemagno

Now a standard in Nonlinear Sciences, the Kuramoto model is the perfect example of the transition to synchrony in heterogeneous systems of coupled oscillators. While its basic phenomenology has been sketched in early works, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-18 Helge Dietert , Bastien Fernandez

Synchronization is an omnipresent collective phenomenon in nature and technology, whose understanding is in particular for real-world systems still elusive. We study the synchronization transition in a phase oscillator system with two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-02 Rico Berner , Annie Lu , Igor M. Sokolov

In this work we study the dynamics of Kuramoto oscillators on a stochastically evolving network whose evolution is governed by the phases of the individual oscillators and degree distribution. Synchronization is achieved after a threshold…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-28 R. K. Singh , Trilochan Bagarti

An interesting problem in synchronization is the study of coupled oscillators, wherein oscillators with different natural frequencies synchronize to a common frequency and equilibrium phase difference. In this paper, we investigate the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Vishaal Krishnan , Arun D. Mahindrakar , Somashekhar S. Hiremath

The Kuramoto model, a paradigmatic framework for studying synchronization, exhibits a transition to collective oscillations only above a critical coupling strength in the thermodynamic limit. However, real-world systems are finite, and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sergei Kirillov , Vladimir Klinshov

We present a linear stability analysis of the incoherent state in a system of globally coupled, identical phase oscillators subject to colored noise. In that we succeed to bridge the extreme time scales between the formerly studied and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-18 Ralf Toenjes

The synchronization pattern of a fully connected competing Kuramoto model with a uniform intrinsic frequency distribution $g(\omega)$ was recently considered. This competing Kuramoto model assigns two coupling constants with opposite signs,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-04 Jinha Park , B. Kahng

Kuramoto's differential equation describes a synchronization process between several harmonic oscillators. It has been used to model biological phenomena such as the synchronization of heart cells, the circadian rhythm, or brain waves. It…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Daniel Burns , Gregorio Malajovich , Charles Pugh , Indika Rajapakse , Steve Smale

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological systems. The most successful approach to describe how coherent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-19 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Jürgen Kurths

We show that self-consistent partial synchrony in globally coupled oscillatory ensembles is a general phenomenon. We analyze in detail appearance and stability properties of this state in possibly the simplest setup of a biharmonic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-06-02 Pau Clusella Cobero , Antonio Politi , Michael Rosenblum

The Kuramoto model, which serves as a paradigm for investigating synchronization phenomenon of oscillatory system, is known to exhibit second-order, i.e., continuous, phase transitions in the macroscopic order parameter. Here, we generalize…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-11-04 Can Xu , Xuebin Wang , Per Sebastian Skardal

We study synchronization in a Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function, in the thermodynamic limit of large populations. We develop a method for an analytic solution of self-consistent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Komarov , A. Pikovsky

Motivated by recent interest for multi-agent systems and smart power grid architectures, we discuss the synchronization problem for the network-reduced model of a power system with non-trivial transfer conductances. Our key insight is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Florian Dorfler , Francesco Bullo

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio