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We investigate the origin of frequency clusters - states where multiple groups of oscillators with distinct mean frequencies coexist. We use the Kuramoto model with inertia, where identical oscillators are globally coupled. First, we study…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-08 Yannick Schöhs , Nicolas Thomé , Katharina Krischer

The Kuramoto model is a classical mathematical model in the field of non-linear dynamical systems that describes the evolution of coupled oscillators in a network that may reach a synchronous state. The relationship between the network's…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Pedro Abdalla , Afonso S. Bandeira , Clara Invernizzi

We consider the classical Kuramoto model (KM) with natural frequencies and its continuum limit (CL), and discuss the existence of synchronized solutions and their bifurcations and stability. We specifically assume that the frequency…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Kazuyuki Yagasaki

The saddle-node bifurcation is the simplest example of a generic bifurcation in smooth ordinary differential equations, and is associated with the creation or destruction of a pair of equilibria. In this paper we examine the unfolding of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Peter Ashwin , Claire Postlethwaite , Jan Sieber

We consider a generalization of the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators to the situation where communities of oscillators having essentially different natural frequencies interact. General equations describing possible resonances between…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-05-13 Maxim Komarov , Arkady Pikovsky

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

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

Disorder is often seen as detrimental to collective dynamics, yet recent work has shown that heterogeneity can enhance network synchronization. However, its constructive role in stabilizing nontrivial cooperative patterns remains largely…

We investigate the engineering scenario where the objective is to synchronize heterogeneous oscillators in a distributed fashion. The internal dynamics of each oscillator are general enough to capture their time-varying natural frequency as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Simone Mariano , Riccardo Bertollo , Romain Postoyan , Luca Zaccarian

Multi-qubit quantum processors coupled to networking provides the state-of-the-art quantum computing platform. However, each qubit has unique eigenfrequency even though fabricated in the same process. To continue quantum gate operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Abhijit Bhattacharyya

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

Synchronization occurs in many natural and technological systems, from cardiac pacemaker cells to coupled lasers. In the synchronized state, the individual cells or lasers coordinate the timing of their oscillations, but they do not move…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Kevin P. O'Keeffe , Hyunsuk Hong , Steven H. Strogatz

Interaction within an ensemble of coupled nonlinear oscillators induces a variety of collective behaviors. One of the most fascinating is a chimera state which manifests the coexistence of spatially distinct populations of coherent and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-18 Nikita Frolov , Vladimir Maksimenko , Soumen Majhi , Sarbendu Rakshit , Dibakar Ghosh , Alexander Hramov

We provide an analysis of the classic Kuramoto model of coupled nonlinear oscillators that goes beyond the existing results for all-to-all networks of identical oscillators. Our work is applicable to oscillator networks of arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ali Jadbabaie , Nader Motee , Mauricio Barahona

The mean-field Kuramoto model for synchronization of phase oscillators with an asymmetric bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed. Breaking the reflection symmetry facilitates oscillator synchronization to rotating wave phases. Numerical…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-30 J. A. Acebron , L. L. Bonilla , S. De Leo , R. Spigler

The Kuramoto model, which serves as a paradigm for investigating synchronization phenomenon of oscillatory system, is known to exhibit second-order, i.e., continuous, phase transitions in the macroscopic order parameter. Here, we generalize…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-11-04 Can Xu , Xuebin Wang , Per Sebastian Skardal

We investigate the phenomenon of transition to synchronization in Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model in the presence of higher-order interactions and global order parameter adaptation. The investigation is done by performing extensive numerical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-06-10 Sangita Dutta , Prosenjit Kundu , Pitambar Khanra , Chittaranjan Hens , Pinaki Pal

Frequency desynchronized attractors cannot appear in identically coupled symmetric phase oscillators because "overtaking" of phases cannot occur. This restriction no longer applies for more general identically coupled oscillators. Hence, it…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Peter Ashwin , Christian Bick

The Kuramoto model is a classical nonlinear ODE system designed to study synchronization phenomena. Each equation represents the phase of an oscillator and the coupling between them is determined by a graph. There is an increasing interest…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Cecilia De Vita , Pablo Groisman , Ruojun Huang

We consider a toy model of two kinetically coupled stochastic oscillators whose dynamics is described as a Markov jump process among $N$ discrete phase states. For large $N$, it maps onto the deterministic two-oscillator Kuramoto model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito , Krzysztof Ptaszynski