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We study the collective behavior of swarmalators, generalizations of phase oscillators that both sync and swarm, confined to move on a 1D ring. This simple model captures some of the essence of movement in 2D or 3D but has the benefit of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-02-02 Kevin O'Keeffe , Steven Ceron , Kirstin Petersen

Adaptive coupling, where the coupling is dynamical and depends on the behaviour of the oscillators in a complex system, is one of the most crucial factors to control the dynamics and streamline various processes in complex networks. In this…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-06-17 V. K. Chandrasekar , Jane H. Sheeba , B. Subash , M. Lakshmanan , J. Kurths

This paper addresses the behavior of large systems of heterogeneous, globally coupled oscillators each of which is described by the generic Landau-Stuart equation, which incorporates both phase and amplitude dynamics of individual…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-04-16 Wai Shing Lee , Edward Ott , Thomas M. Antonsen

Inspired by Axelrod's model of culture dissemination, we introduce and analyze a model for a population of coupled oscillators where different levels of synchronization can be assimilated to different degrees of cultural organization. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-13 M. N. Kuperman , D. H. Zanette

A coupled-phase oscillator model where each oscillator has an angular velocity that varies due to the interaction with other oscillators is studied. This model is proposed to deepen the understanding of the relationship between the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Masashi Tachikawa , Koichi Fujimoto

We study the phenomenon of cluster synchrony that occurs in ensembles of coupled phase oscillators when higher-order modes dominate the coupling between oscillators. For the first time, we develop a complete analytic description of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-18 Per Sebastian Skardal , Edward Ott , Juan G. Restrepo

In this paper we examine robust clustering behaviour with multiple nontrivial clusters for identically and globally coupled phase oscillators. These systems are such that the dynamics is completely determined by the number of oscillators N…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Asma Ismail , Peter Ashwin

A theoretical analysis is presented to show the general occurrence of phase clusters in weakly, globally coupled oscillators close to a Hopf bifurcation. Through a reductive perturbation method, we derive the amplitude equation with a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-09-17 Hiroshi Kori , Yoshiki Kuramoto , Swati Jain , István Z. Kiss , John Hudson

Study of collective phenomenon in populations of coupled oscillators are a subject of intense exploration in physical, biological, neuronal and social systems. Here we propose a scheme for the creation of chimera states, namely the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-08 Anjuman Ara Khatun , Haider Hasan Jafri

Coupled oscillators can serve as a testbed for larger questions of pattern formation across many areas of science and engineering. Much effort has been dedicated to the Kuramoto model and phase oscillators, but less has focused on…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-21 Emma R. Zajdela , Daniel M. Abrams

We analyze the synchronization dynamics of phase oscillators far from the synchronization manifold, including the onset of synchronization on scale-free networks with low and high clustering coefficients. We use normal coordinates and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-25 Patrick McGraw , Michael Menzinger

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

The nonclassical behaviors of a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator is investigated in the ultrastrong coupling regime. We revisit the variational solution of the ground state and find that the existing solution do not account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-01 Myung-Joong Hwang , Mahn-Soo Choi

We present some recent development in modeling concurrent emergence of collective behaviors, namely, the emergence of clustering, flocking and synchronization at the same time. We derive two new models, namely Swarmalator-Vicsek and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Trenton Gerew , Ming Zhong

We study a variant of Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model in which oscillators are divided into two groups, each characterized by its coupling constant and phase lag. Specifically, we consider the case that one coupling constant is positive and the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-14 Jungzae Choi , MooYoung Choi , Byung-Gook Yoon

Swarmalators are a class of coupled oscillators that simultaneously synchronize in both space and phase, providing a minimal model for systems ranging from biological microswimmers to robotic swarms. Time delay is ubiquitous in such…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-13 Rommel Tchinda Djeudjo , Gourab Kumar Sar , Timoteo Carletti

Cyclops states - three-cluster configurations consisting of two synchronous groups and a solitary oscillator - dominate in ensembles of phase oscillators with inertia and multiple coupling harmonics [Phys. Rev. E 109, 054202 (2024)]. In…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-05-13 M. M. Khamkov , M. I. Bolotov , L. A. Smirnov , I. Belykh

We study the synchronization of coupled maps on a variety of networks including regular one and two dimensional networks, scale free networks, small world networks, tree networks, and random networks. For small coupling strengths nodes show…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sarika Jalan , R. E. Amritkar

Coupled oscillator networks often display transitions between qualitatively different phase-locked solutions -- such as synchrony and rotating wave solutions -- following perturbation or parameter variation. In the limit of weak coupling,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Jorge L. Ocampo-Espindola , István Z. Kiss , Christian Bick , Kyle C. A. Wedgwood

In the first part of this paper, we showed that three coupled populations of identical phase oscillators give rise to heteroclinic cycles between invariant sets where populations show distinct frequencies. Here, we now give explicit…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-08-05 Christian Bick , Alexander Lohse