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The classical Kuramoto model consists of finitely many pairwise coupled oscillators on the circle. In many applications a simple pairwise coupling is not sufficient to describe real-world phenomena as higher-order (or group) interactions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn

We study the synchronisation properties of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators on a general network. Here we distinguish the ability of such a system to self-synchronise from the stability of this behaviour. While…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander C. Kalloniatis

The Kuramoto model can be formulated as a gradient flow on a nonconvex energy landscape of the form $E(\boldsymbol{\theta}) := \frac{1}{2} \sum_{1\le i,j\le n} A_{ij}\bigl(1-\cos(\theta_i-\theta_j)\bigr).$ A fundamental question is to…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Hongjin Wu , Ulrik Brandes

We investigate the transition from incoherence to global collective motion in a three-dimensional swarming model of agents with helical trajectories, subject to noise and global coupling. Without noise this model was recently proposed as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Chunming Zheng , Ralf Toenjes , Arkady Pikovsky

We study the dynamics of the Kuramoto model on the sphere under higher-order interactions and an external periodic force. For identical oscillators, we introduce a novel way to incorporate three- and four-body interactions into the dynamics…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-26 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcel Novaes , Ricardo Fariello , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

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

This study investigates the impact of delayed coupling on the global and local synchronization of identical coupled oscillators residing in a ring. Utilizing the Kuramoto model, we examine the effects of delayed coupling on collective…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-02-04 Sara Ameli , Esmaeil Mahdavi , Mina Zarei , Farhad Shahbazi

We explore the environment-induced synchronization phenomenon in two-level systems in contact with a thermal dissipative environment. We first discuss the conditions under which synchronization emerges between a pair of two-level particles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 G. Karpat , İ. Yalçınkaya , B. Çakmak

The phenomenon of self-synchronization in populations of oscillatory units appears naturally in neurosciences. However, in some situations, the formation of a coherent state is damaging. In this article we study a repulsive mean-field…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-08 Corina Ciobotaru , Linard Hoessly , Christian Mazza , Xavier Richard

This paper proposes a general model for synchronized crowding behavior. An order parameter is introduced to quantify the level of synchronization which is shown a function of percentage of agents in reactive state. Further, synchronization…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-12-06 Jake J. Xia

We study the synchronization of a small-world network of identical coupled phase oscillators with Kuramoto interaction. First, we consider the model with instantaneous mutual interaction and the normalized coupling constant to the degree of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-05-23 Sara Ameli , Farhad Shahbazi , Maryam Karimian , Tahereh Malakoutikhah

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

We study synchronization properties of coupled oscillators on networks that allow description in terms of global mean field coupling. These models generalize the standard Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model, allowing for different contributions of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Vlasov , Elbert E. N. Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

The present paper introduces a linear reformulation of the Kuramoto model describing a self-synchronizing phase transition in a system of globally coupled oscillators that in general have different characteristic frequencies. The…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2008-03-18 David C. Roberts

The Kuramoto model, a paradigmatic framework for studying synchronization, exhibits a transition to collective oscillations only above a critical coupling strength in the thermodynamic limit. However, real-world systems are finite, and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sergei Kirillov , Vladimir Klinshov

Many real-world systems of coupled agents exhibit directed interactions, meaning that the influence of an agent on another is not reciprocal. Furthermore, interactions usually do not have identical amplitude and/or sign. To describe…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-08-13 Robin Delabays , Philippe Jacquod , Florian Dörfler

The transition to synchrony in the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators with a uniform distribution of natural frequencies is discontinuous. We extend the theory of this transition to the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model, taking…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-04-14 Arkady Pikovsky

We establish a unified synchronization framework for the all-to-all hybrid Kuramoto model that couples first- and second-order oscillators within a single dynamical system. Although the Kuramoto model has become one of the most widely used…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Chengbin Zhu

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

The onset of synchronization in a system of random frequency oscillators coupled through a random network is investigated. Using a mean-field approximation, we characterize sample-to-sample fluctuations for networks of finite size, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyunsuk Hong , Hyunggyu Park , Lei-Han Tang