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Globally coupled phase oscillator models, such as the Kuramoto model, exhibit spontaneous collective synchronization. Such models can be restated in terms of interactions within and between subsets of oscillators. An approximation for the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-17 David Mertens

The Kuramoto model is a canonical framework for analyzing phase synchronization, yet its utility is restricted to the vicinity of the oscillator's unperturbed limit cycle. Here, we present a method to construct coupled-oscillator models…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-06 Koichiro Yawata , Hiroya Nakao

The Kuramoto model is the paradigmatic model to study synchronization in coupled oscillator systems. In its classical formulation, the oscillators move on the unit circle, each characterized by a scalar phase and a natural frequency, by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-10 Anna Gallo , Renaud Lambiotte , Timoteo Carletti

Synchronization in systems of coupled Kuramoto oscillators may depend on their natural frequencies, coupling, and underlying networks. In this paper, we reduce the alternatives to only one by considering identical oscillators where the only…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-11-11 Yury Sokolov , G. Bard Ermentrout

In the context of the celebrated Kuramoto model of globally-coupled phase oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, which serves as a paradigm to investigate spontaneous collective synchronization in many-body interacting systems, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-20 Shamik Gupta

Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without clear classical limits, no comprehensive theory has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Berislav Buca , Cameron Booker , Dieter Jaksch

The celebrated Kuramoto model provides an analytically tractable framework to study spontaneous collective synchronization and comprises globally coupled limit-cycle oscillators interacting symmetrically with one another. The…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Manoranjani , Shamik Gupta , V. K. Chandrasekar

We present a rigorous mathematical framework establishing the equivalence of four classical notions of synchronization full phase-locking, phase-locking, frequency synchronization, and order parameter synchronization in generalized Kuramoto…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Chengbin Zhu

Synchronization is an omnipresent collective phenomenon in nature and technology, whose understanding is in particular for real-world systems still elusive. We study the synchronization transition in a phase oscillator system with two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-02 Rico Berner , Annie Lu , Igor M. Sokolov

In this work we study the dynamics of Kuramoto oscillators on a stochastically evolving network whose evolution is governed by the phases of the individual oscillators and degree distribution. Synchronization is achieved after a threshold…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-28 R. K. Singh , Trilochan Bagarti

We study the effects of synchronization and desynchronization in ensembles of phase oscillators with the global Kuramoto-Sakaguchi coupling under common noise driving. Since the mechanisms of synchronization by coupling and by common noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 D. S. Goldobin , A. V. Dolmatova , M. Rosenblum , A. Pikovsky

We propose a generalization of the Kuramoto model of interacting oscillators in which the particles move on the surface of a $D$-dimensional torus. In contrast with the traditional one-dimensional version, this model has a first order phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-05 Marcel Novaes

In this paper, we will study the emergent behavior of Kuramoto model with frustration on a general digraph containing a spanning tree. We provide a sufficient condition for the emergence of asymptotical synchronization if the initial data…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Tingting Zhu

We investigate the synchronization transition of the modified Kuramoto model where the oscillators form a scale-free network with degree exponent $\lambda$. An oscillator of degree $k_i$ is coupled to its neighboring oscillators with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 E. Oh , D. -S. Lee , B. Kahng , D. Kim

The global stability of oscillator networks has attracted much recent attention. Ordinarily, the oscillators in such studies are motionless; their spatial degrees of freedom are either ignored (e.g. mean field models) or inactive (e.g…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-10-24 Kevin P. O'Keeffe

The evolution of tokens through deep transformer models can be modeled as an interacting particle system that has been shown to exhibit an asymptotic clustering behavior akin to the synchronization phenomenon in Kuramoto models. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shi Chen , Zhengjiang Lin , Yury Polyanskiy , Philippe Rigollet

A graph $\mathcal{G}$ is referred to as $\mathsf{S}^1$-synchronizing if, roughly speaking, the Kuramoto-like model whose interaction topology is given by $\mathcal{G}$ synchronizes almost globally. The Kuramoto model evolves on the unit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

The Kuramoto model (KM) of coupled phase oscillators on graphs provides the most influential framework for studying collective dynamics and synchronization. It exhibits a rich repertoire of dynamical regimes. Since the work of Strogatz and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Dmitry Kaliuzhnyi-Verbovetskyi , Georgi S. Medvedev