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Clustered solutions in oscillator networks provide an important insight into how a system might diversify from a synchronous solution into spatiotemporal complex solutions. They can therefore form a link between fully synchronized and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-19 Nicolas Thomé , Matthias Wolfrum , Katharina Krischer

We analyze the simplest model of identical coupled phase oscillators subject to two-body and three-body interactions with permutation symmetry. This model is derived from an ensemble of weakly coupled nonlinear oscillators by phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-10-22 Iván León , Riccardo Muolo , Shigefumi Hata , Hiroya Nakao

A small-world network (SW) of similar phase oscillators, interacting according to the Kuramoto model is studied numerically. It is shown that deterministic Kuramoto dynamics on the SW networks has various stable stationary states. This can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-11 Reihaneh Kouhi Esfahani , Farhad Shahbazi , Keivan Aghababaei Samani

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

Coupled oscillators, even identical ones, display a wide range of behaviours, among them synchrony and incoherence. The 2002 discovery of so-called chimera states, states of coexisting synchronized and unsynchronized oscillators, provided a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-10-27 Sindre W. Haugland , Anton Tosolini , Katharina Krischer

Cyclops states are intriguing cluster patterns observed in oscillator networks, including neuronal ensembles. The concept of cyclops states formed by two distinct, coherent clusters and a solitary oscillator was introduced in [Munyayev {\it…

The dynamical and structural aspects of cluster synchronization (CS) in complex systems have been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we study CS of dynamical systems with intra and inter-cluster couplings. We propose new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-26 Jiachen Ye , Peng Ji , David Waxman , Wei Lin , Yamir Moreno

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

The cluster synchronization is a very important characteristic for the higher harmonic coupling Kuramoto system. A novel transformation is provided, and it gives cluster synchronization by the periodic properties of the density function.…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-05 Guihua Tian , Songhua Hu , Shuquan Zhong

Synchronization of coupled oscillators is observed in many natural and engineered systems and emerges due to the interactions within the system. It can be both beneficial, e.g., in power grids, and harmful, e.g., in epileptic seizures. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-18 Martin Moriamé , Riccardo Muolo , Timoteo Carletti , Maxime Lucas

Collective behavior in large ensembles of dynamical units with non-pairwise interactions may play an important role in several systems ranging from brain function to social networks. Despite recent work pointing to simplicial structure,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-06-26 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

We show that dynamical clustering, where a system segregates into distinguishable subsets of synchronized elements, and chimera states, where differentiated subsets of synchronized and desynchronized elements coexist, can emerge in networks…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-02-12 M. G. Cosenza , O. Alvarez-Llamoza , A. V. Cano

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

We study the synchronization of oscillators with inertias and phase shifts, namely the second-order Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model. Using the self-consistent method, we find that the effect of inertia is the introduction of effective phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-29 Jian Gao , Konstantinos Efstathiou

Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in complex systems, observed across a wide range of natural and engineered contexts. The Kuramoto model provides a foundational framework for understanding synchronization among coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-02-03 Riccardo Muolo , Hiroya Nakao , Marco Coraggio

Cluster synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in systems of coupled oscillators. Here, we investigate clustering patterns that emerge in a unidirectional ring of four delay-coupled electrochemical oscillators. A voltage parameter in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Andrew Keane , Alannah Neff , Karen Blaha , Andreas Amann , Philipp Hövel

Synchronization of an ensemble of oscillators is an emergent phenomenon present in several complex systems, ranging from social and physical to biological and technological systems. The most successful approach to describe how coherent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-19 Francisco A. Rodrigues , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Jürgen Kurths

The emergence of explosive synchronization has been reported as an abrupt transition in complex networks of first-order Kuramoto oscillators. In this Letter, we demonstrate that the nodes in a second-order Kuramoto model, perform a cascade…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-15 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peter J. Menck , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

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…

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