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Synchronization is a universal phenomenon found in many non-equilibrium systems. Much recent interest in this area has overlapped with the study of complex networks, where a major focus is determining how a system's connectivity patterns…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-19 Jason Hindes , Christopher R. Myers

A system's response to external periodic changes can provide crucial information about its dynamical properties. We investigate the synchronization transition, an archetypical example of a dynamic phase transition, in the framework of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-28 Sang Hoon Lee , Sungmin Lee , Seung-Woo Son , Petter Holme

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

Brain networks typically exhibit characteristic synchronization patterns where several synchronized clusters coexist. On the other hand, neurological disorders are considered to be related to pathological synchronization such as excessive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-31 Ryota Kokubo , Rui Kato , Hideaki Ishii

A growing body of research indicates that structural plasticity mechanisms are crucial for learning and memory consolidation. Starting from a simple phenomenological model, we exploit a mean-field approach to develop a theoretical framework…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-19 Gianmarco Tiddia , Luca Sergi , Bruno Golosio

Real-world networks are often characterized by simultaneous interactions between multiple agents that adapt themselves due to feedback from the environment. In this article, we investigate the dynamics of an adaptive multilayer network of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-22 Richita Ghosh , Md Sayeed Anwar , Dibakar Ghosh , Jurgen Kurths , Manish Dev Shrimali

Power grids, as well as neuronal networks with synaptic plasticity, describe real-world systems of tremendous importance for our daily life. The investigation of these seemingly unrelated types of dynamical networks has attracted increasing…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-04-14 Rico Berner , Serhiy Yanchuk , Eckehard Schöll

Large networks of spiking neurons show abrupt changes in their collective dynamics resembling phase transitions studied in statistical physics. An example of this phenomenon is the transition from irregular, noise-driven dynamics to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2008-11-25 Vicenç Gómez , Andreas Kaltenbrunner , Vicente López , Hilbert J. Kappen

An adaptive observer is proposed to estimate the synaptic distribution between neurons asymptotically from the measurement of a part of the neuronal activity and a delayed neural field evolution model. The convergence of the observer is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Lucas Brivadis , Antoine Chaillet , Jean Auriol

We present an interacting branching model of neural network dynamics, incorporating key biological features such as inhibition with several types of inhibitory interactions. We establish a hierarchy of analytical mean-field approximations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-29 Jeremy B. Goetz , Naruepon Weerawongphrom , Rashid V. Williams-García , John M. Beggs , Gerardo Ortiz

We study a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity in interaction. Under a week force, an oscillator tends to follow the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-28 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

We investigate the dynamics of the adaptive Kuramoto model with slow adaptation in the continuum limit, $N\to\infty$. This model is distinguished by dense multistability, where multiple states coexist for the same system parameters. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-11-12 Rok Cestnik , Erik A. Martens

In this paper, we investigated the neural spikes synchronisation in a neural network with synaptic plasticity and external perturbation. In the simulations the neural dynamics is described by the Hodgkin Huxley model considering chemical…

Plasticity is a fundamental property of complex systems, such as the brain or an organism. Yet it typically remains a descriptive concept inferred retrospectively from observed outcomes, such as modifications in activity or morphology.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-27 Igor Branchi

Adaptive (or co-evolutionary) network dynamics, i.e., when changes of the network/graph topology are coupled with changes in the node/vertex dynamics, can give rise to rich and complex dynamical behavior. Even though adaptivity can improve…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Marios Antonios Gkogkas , Christian Kuehn , Chuang Xu

We characterize the synchronization of an array of coupled chaotic elements as a phase transition where order parameters related to the joint probability at two sites obey power laws versus the mutual coupling strength; the phase transition…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. T. Arecchi , M. Ciszak

Recently, the first-order synchronization transition has been studied in systems of coupled phase oscillators. In this paper, we propose a framework to investigate the synchronization in the frequency-weighted Kuramoto model with all-to-all…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-11-18 Can Xu , Yuting Sun , Jian Gao , Tian Qiu , Zhigang Zheng , Shuguang Guan

Adaptive social networks, in which nodes and network structure co-evolve, are often described using a mean-field system of equations for the density of node and link types. These equations constitute an open system due to dependence on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Maxim S. Shkarayev , Leah B. Shaw

In a first step towards the comprehension of neural activity, one should focus on the stability of the various dynamical states. Even the characterization of idealized regimes, such as a perfectly periodic spiking activity, reveals…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-09-08 Simona Olmi , Antonio Politi , Alessandro Torcini

We study the synchronization of two model neurons coupled through a synapse having an activity-dependent strength. Our synapse follows the rules of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP). We show that this plasticity of the coupling…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valentin P. Zhigulin , Mikhail I. Rabinovich , Ramon Huerta , Henry D. I. Abarbanel