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Synchronization is crucial for the correct functionality of many natural and man-made complex systems. In this work we characterize the formation of synchronization patterns in networks of Kuramoto oscillators. Specifically, we reveal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-20 Lorenzo Tiberi , Chiara Favaretto , Mario Innocenti , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

The study of synchronization in populations of coupled biological oscillators is fundamental to many areas of biology to include neuroscience, cardiac dynamics and circadian rhythms. Studying these systems may involve tracking the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-18 Kevin M. Hannay , Daniel B. Forger , Victoria Booth

Canards, special trajectories that follow invariant repelling slow manifolds for long time intervals, have been frequently observed in slow-fast systems of either biological, chemical and physical nature. Here, collective canard explosions…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-09 Marzena Ciszak , Simona Olmi , Giacomo Innocenti , Alessandro Torcini , Francesco Marino

Adaptive Kuramoto models admit a variety of nontrivial phase-locked configurations, including antipodal and rotating-wave states. A central open question is whether the observed persistence of such configurations can be attributed to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Jaeyoung Yoon , Christian Kuehn

A system of nearest neighbors Kuramoto-like coupled oscillators placed in a ring is studied above the critical synchronization transition. We find a richness of solutions when the coupling increases, which exists only within a solvability…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Paulo F. C. Tilles , Fernando F. Ferreira , Hilda A. Cerdeira

The theoretical description of synchronization phenomena often relies on coupled units of continuous time noisy Markov chains with a small number of states in each unit. It is frequently assumed, either explicitly or implicitly, that…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-12-21 Daniel Escaff , Alexandre Rosas , Raul Toral , Katja Lindenberg

Partial integrability in phase-oscillator dynamics is typically examined for identically connected oscillators or groups thereof. Yet, the precise connectivity conditions that ensure conserved quantities on general networks remain unclear.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-01 Vincent Thibeault , Benjamin Claveau , Antoine Allard , Patrick Desrosiers

Networks of coupled dynamical units give rise to collective dynamics such as the synchronization of oscillators or neurons in the brain. The ability of the network to adapt coupling strengths between units in accordance with their activity…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-17 Benjamin Jüttner , Erik Andreas Martens

Some mathematical models of synchronization, such as the Kuramoto model (1975) and its generalizations pioneered by Lohe (2009), are formulated as ordinary differential equations describing populations of particles on Lie groups with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Seung-Yeon Ryoo

We generalize the Kuramoto model for coupled phase oscillators by allowing the frequencies to drift in time according to Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics. Such drifting frequencies were recently measured in cellular populations of circadian…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-11 Jacques Rougemont , Felix Naef

We present a detailed analysis of the stability of synchronized solutions to the Kuramoto system of oscillators. We derive an analytical expression counting the dimension of the unstable manifold associated to a given stationary solution.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Jared C. Bronski , Lee DeVille , Moon Jip Park

We consider the rotational dynamics in an ensemble of globally coupled identical pendulums. This model is essentially a generalization of the standard Kuramoto model, which takes into account the inertia and the intrinsic nonlinearity of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-01-10 M. I. Bolotov , V. O. Munyaev , L. A. Smirnov , A. E. Hramov

Synchronization in quantum systems has been recently studied through persistent oscillations of local observables, which stem from undamped modes of the dissipative dynamics. However, the existence of such modes requires fine-tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yi J. Zhao , Joel E. Moore , Juzar Thingna , Christopher W. Wächtler

The Kuramoto model is a classical model used in the study of spontaneous synchronizations in networks of coupled oscillators. In this model, frequency synchronization configurations can be formulated as complex solutions to a system of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Tianran Chen , Evgeniia Korchevskaia

The Kuramoto model has been introduced to describe synchronization phenomena observed in groups of cells, individuals, circuits, etc. The model consists of $N$ interacting oscillators on the one dimensional sphere $\mathbf{S}^{1}$, driven…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Eric Luçon

We analyze synchronization between two interacting populations of different phase oscillators. For the important case of asymmetric coupling functions, we find a much richer dynamical behavior compared to that of symmetrically coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-10 Ernest Montbrió , Jürgen Kurths , Bernd Blasius

The transient stability of power systems and synchronization of non-uniform Kuramoto oscillators are closely related problems. In this paper, we develop a novel regional stability analysis framework based on the proposed region-parametrized…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Lijun Zhu , David J. Hill

We explore large populations of phase oscillators interacting via random coupling functions. Two types of coupling terms, the Kuramoto-Daido coupling and the Winfree coupling, are considered. Under the assumption of statistical independence…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-19 Arkady Pikovsky , Lev A. Smirnov

Coupled oscillator networks underlie many biological systems, from cardiac cycles to circadian rhythms. Phase-reduced models such as the Kuramoto model have been widely used to study synchronization, but they typically assume that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Naghmeh Akhavan , Ruby Kim

Understanding the mechanisms that govern collective synchronization is a paramount task in nonlinear dynamics. While higher-order (many-body) interactions have recently emerged as a powerful framework for capturing collective behaviors,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-12-19 Narumi Fujii , Keisuke Taga , Riccardo Muolo , Bob Rink , Hiroya Nakao