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The Kuramoto model provides a concrete mathematical realization of emergent synchrony in a population of phase-coupled oscillators. Since Kuramoto's publication, \textit{Oscillations, Waves, and Turbulence}, researchers have worked to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-14 Anthony Krueger , Sathyanarayanan Rengaswami , Rachel Leander

Previous results have shown that a large class of complex systems consisting of many interacting heterogeneous phase oscillators exhibit an attracting invariant manifold. This result has enabled reduced analytic system descriptions from…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-05-22 Sarthak Chandra , Michelle Girvan , Edward Ott

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 describes the synchronization of coupled oscillators that have different natural frequencies. Among the many generalizations of the original model, Kuramoto and Sakaguchi (KS) proposed a {\it frustrated} version that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-10-05 Guilhermo L. Buzanello , Ana Elisa D. Barioni , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

We study synchronization properties of coupled oscillators on networks that allow description in terms of global mean field coupling. These models generalize the standard Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model, allowing for different contributions of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Vlasov , Elbert E. N. Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

We propose the idea of using Kuramoto models (including their higher-dimensional generalizations) for machine learning over non-Euclidean data sets. These models are systems of matrix ODE's describing collective motions (swarming dynamics)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Vladimir Jacimovic

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

We present a general theory for the onset of coherence in collections of heterogeneous maps interacting via a complex connection network. Our method allows the dynamics of the individual uncoupled systems to be either chaotic or periodic,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Juan G. Restrepo , Edward Ott , Brian R. Hunt

Collective oscillations and patterns of synchrony have long fascinated researchers in the applied sciences, particularly due to their far-reaching importance in chemistry, physics, and biology. The Kuramoto model has emerged as a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason Bramburger , Matt Holzer

Higher order interactions can lead to new equilibrium states and bifurcations in systems of coupled oscillators described by the Kuramoto model. However, even in the simplest case of 3-body interactions there are more than one possible…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-21 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Anna Gallo , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

We investigate the engineering scenario where the objective is to synchronize heterogeneous oscillators in a distributed fashion. The internal dynamics of each oscillator are general enough to capture their time-varying natural frequency as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Simone Mariano , Riccardo Bertollo , Romain Postoyan , Luca Zaccarian

We show that there is a link between the Kuramoto paradigm and another system of synchronized oscillators, namely an electrical power distribution grid of generators and consumers. The purpose of this work is to show both the formal analogy…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Giovanni Filatrella , Arne Hejde Nielsen , Niels Falsig Pedersen

The present paper introduces a linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model describing a self-synchronizing phase transition in a system of globally coupled oscillators that in general have different characteristic frequencies. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-03-18 David C. Roberts

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

A generalized Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators with slowly varying coupling matrix is studied. The dynamics of the coupling coefficients is driven by the phase difference of pairs of oscillators in such a way that the coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Seliger , Stephen C. Young , Lev S. Tsimring

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 activity of collections of synchronizing neurons can be represented by weakly coupled nonlinear phase oscillators satisfying Kuramoto's equations. In this article, we build such neural-oscillator models, partly based on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-04-27 Patrick Suppes , Jose Acacio de Barros , Gary Oas

The dynamics of large systems of coupled oscillators is a subject of increasing importance with prominent applications in several areas such as physics and biology. The Kuramoto model, where a set of oscillators move around a circle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-24 Ana Elisa D. Barioni , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

In this note we show that for the Kuramoto model defined in a simple undirected graph it is possible to decide which nodes form the core of the network. The set of core-nodes is defined by its relevance to the phase synchronisation process.

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-22 Raul J Mondragon