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In this work, a combination of experiments and theory is used to investigate three-body, normal collisions between solid particles with a liquid coating (i.e., "wetted" particles). Experiments are carried out using a Stokes' cradle, an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Donahue , C. M. Hrenya , R. H. Davis , K. J. Nakagawa , A. P. Zelinskaya , G. G. Joseph

Spontaneous synchronization is a general phenomenon in which a large population of coupled oscillators of diverse natural frequencies self-organize to operate in unison. The phenomenon occurs in physical and biological systems over a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Shamik Gupta , Romain Bachelard , Tarcisio Rocha Filho

The time-evolution of few number of interacting, harmonically confined one-dimensional bosons is numerically obtained for arbitrary two-body $\delta-$potential interaction strengths. It is demonstrated that the period of the motion in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-08 D. Efe Gökmen , M. Cemal Yalabik

Synchronization of actively oscillating organelles such as cilia and flagella facilitates self-propulsion of cells and pumping fluid in low Reynolds number environments. To understand the key mechanism behind synchronization induced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Nariya Uchida , Ramin Golestanian

We investigate the synchronization of active rotors. A rotor is composed of a free-rotating arm with a particle that releases a surface-active chemical compound. It exhibits self-rotation due to the surface tension gradient originating from…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-28 Hiroyuki Kitahata , Yuki Koyano

We investigate bifurcation phenomena between slow and fast convergences of synchronization errors arising in the proposed synchronization system consisting of two identical nonlinear dynamical systems linked by a common noisy input only.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-09-09 Katsutoshi Yoshida , Yusuke Nishizawa

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler

We demonstrate the existence of stable collective excitation in the form of "supersolitons" propagating through chains of solitons with alternating signs (i.e., Newton's cradles built of solitons) in nonlinear optical couplers, including…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Pengfei Li , Lu Li , Boris A. Malomed

In this paper, we study geometric features of orientation-preserving random dynamical systems on the circle driven by memoryless noise that exhibit stable synchronisation: we consider crack points, invariant measures, and the link between…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Julian Newman

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fundamental process in both natural and artificial networks. While much work has investigated the asymptotic stability of the synchronous solution, the fundamental question of the transient…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-22 Amirhossein Nazerian , Joseph D Hart , Matteo Lodi , Francesco Sorrentino

Synchronization induced by long-range hydrodynamic interactions is attracting attention as a candidate mechanism behind coordinated beating of cilia and flagella. Here we consider a minimal model of hydrodynamic synchronization in the low…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-26 Nariya Uchida , Ramin Golestanian

The collective behavior of the ensembles of coupled nonlinear oscillator is one of the most interesting and important problems in modern nonlinear dynamics. In this paper, we study rotational dynamics, in particular space-time structures,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-03 V. O. Munyaev , D. S. Khorkin , M. I. Bolotov , L. A. Smirnov , G. V. Osipov

In this paper we demonstrate a route to develop coherence in a system of non-driven oscillators. Here, the coherence is brought about via physical collisions through which the oscillators exchange energy. While coherence in the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-18 Ayanesh Maiti , Shankar Ghosh

This paper investigates synchronization phenomena in networks of coupled oscillators governed by three-time-scale dynamical systems exhibiting canard dynamics. A mathematical framework has been developed to analyze the synchronization of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Navojit Dhali Pallab

We study, both analytically and numerically, the dynamics of mechanical oscillators kept in motion by a feedback force, which is generated electronically from a signal produced by the oscillators themselves. This kind of self-sustained…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-15 Sebastian I. Arroyo , Damian H. Zanette

Synchronization is a universal phenomenon that is important both in fundamental studies and in technical applications. Here we investigate synchronization in the simplest quantum-mechanical scenario possible, i.e., a quantum-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefan Walter , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Christoph Bruder

In 1665, Huygens observed that two pendulum clocks hanging from the same board became synchronized in antiphase after hundreds of swings. On the other hand, modern experiments with metronomes placed on a movable platform show that they…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-24 Guillermo H Goldsztein , Alice N Nadeau , Steven H Strogatz

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature and we propose its new perspective in ultrafast dynamics in interacting electron systems. In particular, using graphene irradiated by an intense bi-circular pulse laser as a prototypical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-02 Tanay Nag , Robert-Jan Slager , Takuya Higuchi , Takashi Oka

We consider the synchronization of two self-excited double pendula. We show that such pendula hanging on the same beam can have four different synchronous configurations. Our approximate analytical analysis allows us to derive the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Piotr Koluda , Przemyslaw Perlikowski , Krzysztof Czolczynski , Tomasz Kapitaniak

We numerically study the synchronization of two nonidentical pendulum motions, pivoting on a common movable frame in the point of view of the dynamic phase transition. When the difference in the pendulum lengths is not too large, it is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-14 Il Gu Yi , Hyun Keun Lee , Sung Hyun Jeon , Beom Jun Kim