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We study the effect of structured higher-order interactions on the collective behavior of coupled phase oscillators. By combining a hypergraph generative model with dimensionality reduction techniques, we obtain a reduced system of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-14 Sabina Adhikari , Juan G. Restrepo , Per Sebastian Skardal

Despite growing interest in synchronization dynamics over "higher-order" network models, optimization theory for such systems is limited. Here, we study a family of Kuramoto models inspired by algebraic topology in which oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Cameron Purple , Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor

Coordination is ubiquitous in living systems. Existing theoretical models of coordination -- from bacteria to brains -- focus on either gross statistics in large-scale systems ($N\rightarrow\infty$) or detailed dynamics in small-scale…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mengsen Zhang , Christopher Beetle , J. A. Scott Kelso , Emmanuelle Tognoli

Collective oscillations and patterns of synchrony have long fascinated researchers in the applied sciences, particularly due to their far-reaching importance in chemistry, physics, and biology. The Kuramoto model has emerged as a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-24 Jason Bramburger , Matt Holzer

We investigate the interplay between frequency heterogeneity and higher-order triadic interactions in a ring network of Kuramoto oscillators. While both factors individually disrupt ordered states, their combination produces unexpected…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-17 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Wenchang Qi , Xianbin Liu

Coupled oscillators have been used to study synchronization in a wide range of social, biological, and physical systems, including pedestrian-induced bridge resonances, coordinated lighting up of firefly swarms, and enhanced output peak…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-11-01 Can Xu , Xiaohuan Tang , Huaping Lü , Karin Alfaro-Bittner , Stefano Boccaletti , Matjaz Perc , Shuguang Guan

Populations of oscillators are present throughout nature. Very often synchronization is observed in such populations if they are allowed to interact. A paradigmatic model for the study of such phenomena has been the Kuramoto model. However,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-08 Keith A. Kroma-Wiley , Peter J. Mucha , Dani S. Bassett

We present a general theory for the onset of coherence in collections of heterogeneous maps interacting via a complex connection network. Our method allows the dynamics of the individual uncoupled systems to be either chaotic or periodic,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Juan G. Restrepo , Edward Ott , Brian R. Hunt

We study the influence of motion on the emergence of synchronization in a metapopulation of random walkers moving on a heterogeneous network and subject to Kuramoto interactions at the network nodes. We discover a novel mechanism of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-16 Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vincenzo Nicosia , Roberta Sinatra , Vito Latora

Common models of synchronizable oscillatory systems consist of a collection of coupled oscillators governed by a collection of differential equations. The ubiquitous Kuramoto models rely on an {\em a priori} fixed connectivity pattern…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-01 Elizabeth A. Tripp , Feng Fu , Scott D. Pauls

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the study of spontaneous synchronization, particularly within the framework of the Kuramoto model. The model comprises oscillators with distributed natural frequencies interacting through a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-29 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

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 effect of partial order parameter adaptation in form of general functions on the synchronization behavior of coupled Kuramoto oscillators on top of random hypergraph models. The interactions between the oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-07-25 Sangita Dutta , Pinaki Pal , Chittaranjan Hens

A deluge of new data on social, technological and biological networked systems suggests that a large number of interactions among system units are not limited to pairs, but rather involve a higher number of nodes. To properly encode such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-08 Quintino Francesco Lotito , Federico Musciotto , Alberto Montresor , Federico Battiston

In his classical work, Kuramoto analytically described the onset of synchronization in all-to-all coupled networks of phase oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies. Specifically, he identified a critical value of the coupling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Hayato Chiba , Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

We investigate the connection between the dynamics of synchronization and the modularity on complex networks. Simulating the Kuramoto's model in complex networks we determine patterns of meta-stability and calculate the modularity of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Alex Arenas , Albert Diaz-Guilera

From biology to social science, the functioning of a wide range of systems is the result of elementary interactions which involve more than two constituents, so that their description has unavoidably to go beyond simple…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-04-28 X. Dai , K. Kovalenko , M. Molodyk , Z. Wang , X. Li , D. Musatov , A. M. Raigorodskii , K. Alfaro-Bittner , G. D. Cooper , G. Bianconi , S. Boccaletti

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

How higher-order interactions influence the dynamics of second order phase oscillators? We address this question using three coupled Kuramoto phase oscillators with inertia under both pairwise and higher order interactions, finding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Patrycja Jaros , Subrata Ghosh , Dawid Dudkowski , Syamal K. Dana , Tomasz Kapitaniak

The Kuramoto model provides a prototypical framework to synchronization phenomena in interacting particle systems. Apart from full phase synchrony where all oscillators behave identically, identical Kuramoto oscillators with ring-like…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn