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Higher-order networks are widely used to describe complex systems in which interactions can involve more than two entities at once. In this paper, we focus on inclusion within higher-order networks, referring to situations where specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Nicholas W. Landry , Jean-Gabriel Young , Nicole Eikmeier

We analyze the final state sensitivity of nonlocal networks with respect to initial conditions of their units. By changing the initial conditions of a single network unit, we perturb an initially synchronized state. Depending on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-12 Everton S Medeiros , Rene O. Medrano-T , Iberê L Caldas , Ulrike Feudel

Human social interactions in local settings can be experimentally detected by recording the physical proximity and orientation of people. Such interactions, approximating face-to-face communications, can be effectively represented as time…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-08 Giulia Cencetti , Federico Battiston , Bruno Lepri , Márton Karsai

We study the effects of phase-frustrated, higher-order interactions in a system of coupled phase oscillators with two communities. We use dimensionality reduction techniques to derive a low-dimensional system of ODEs to describe the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-11 Sabina Adhikari , Juan G. Restrepo , Per Sebastian Skardal

Synchronization is an essential collective phenomenon in networks of interacting oscillators. Twisted states are rotating wave solutions in ring networks where the oscillator phases wrap around the circle in a linear fashion. Here, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-08-06 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Oleh E. Omel'chenko

When identical oscillators are coupled together in a network, dynamical steady states are often assumed to reflect network symmetries. Here we show that alternative persistent states may also exist that break the symmetries of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-05-10 Xin Jiang , Daniel M. Abrams

Dynamical systems with a coupled cell network structure can display synchronous solutions, spectral degeneracies and anomalous bifurcation behavior. We explain these phenomena here for homogeneous networks, by showing that every homogeneous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-04-05 Bob Rink , Jan Sanders

Complex systems are often driven by higher-order interactions among multiple units, naturally represented as hypergraphs. Understanding dependency structures within these hypergraphs is crucial for understanding and predicting the behavior…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 John Hood , Caterina De Bacco , Aaron Schein

For networks of pulse-coupled oscillators with complex connectivity, we demonstrate that in the presence of coupling heterogeneity precisely timed periodic firing patterns replace the state of global synchrony that exists in homogenous…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Denker , Marc Timme , Markus Diesmann , Fred Wolf , Theo Geisel

The dynamics of cascading failures in spatial interdependent networks significantly depend on the interaction range of dependency couplings between layers. In particular, for increasing range of dependency couplings, different types of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-07 Bnaya Gross , Ivan Bonamassa , Shlomo Havlin

Onset and loss of synchronization in coupled oscillators are of fundamental importance in understanding emergent behavior in natural and man-made systems, which range from neural networks to power grids. We report on experiments with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-10-14 Dumitru Călugăru , Jan Frederik Totz , Erik A. Martens , Harald Engel

We study the effect of structured higher-order interactions on the collective behavior of coupled phase oscillators. By combining a hypergraph generative model with dimensionality reduction techniques, we obtain a reduced system of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-14 Sabina Adhikari , Juan G. Restrepo , Per Sebastian Skardal

Dynamical emergent patterns of swarms are now fairly well established in nature, and include flocking and rotational states. Recently, there has been great interest in engineering and physics to create artificial self-propelled agents that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-05-20 Ira B Schwartz , Victoria Edwards , Sayomi Kamimoto , Klimka Kasraie , Ioana Triandaf , M. Ani Hsieh , Jason Hindes

How does a group of agents break indecision when deciding about options with qualities that are hard to distinguish? Biological and artificial multi-agent systems, from honeybees and bird flocks to bacteria, robots, and humans, often need…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Alessio Franci , Martin Golubitsky , Ian Stewart , Anastasia Bizyaeva , Naomi Ehrich Leonard

Time delays are a common perturbation in systems with many states, such as networked, distributed, or decentralized systems. Current methods analyzing the stability of large systems with time delay typically produce very conservative…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-31 George Armanious , Rick Lind

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a fascinating topic in various scientific disciplines. A coupled oscillator network is characterized by a population of heterogeneous oscillators and a graph describing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Florian Dörfler , Michael Chertkov , Francesco Bullo

Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

The growth of superconducting order after an interaction quench in a hexagonal lattice is studied. The cases of both time-reversal (TR) preserving graphene, as well as the TR broken Haldane model are explored. Spin singlet superconducting…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-11-08 Hossein Dehghani , Aditi Mitra

Understanding how large complex networks achieve synchronization is a problem of fundamental interest, and is typically studied in the asymptotic steady-state regime. In contrast, this study investigates how higher-order interactions affect…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-10 Dhrubajyoti Biswas , Pintu Patra , Arpan Banerjee

Motivated by experiments on sheared suspensions that show a transition between ordered and disordered phases, we here study the long-time behavior of a sheared and overdamped 2-d system of particles interacting by repulsive forces. As a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-06 Jens C. Pfeifer , Tobias Bischoff , Georg Ehlers , Bruno Eckhardt