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It is well known from classical physics that weakly coupled self-sustained oscillators may spontaneously lock their phases. Just like classical synchronization is known to break down due to noise induced phase slips, we show here how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hans Christiansen , Jens Paaske

We implement nonlinear anharmonic interaction in the coupled van der Pol oscillators to investigate the quantum synchronization behaviour of the systems. We study the quantum synchronization in two oscillator models, coupled quantum van der…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Niss Thomas , M. Senthilvelan

We introduce a quantum spin van der Pol (vdP) oscillator as a prototypical model of quantum spinbased limit-cycle oscillators, which coincides with the quantum optical vdP oscillator in the high-spin limit. The system is described as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-11-20 Yuzuru Kato , Hiroya Nakao

Synchronization of quantum nonlinear oscillators has attracted much attention recently. To characterize the quantum oscillatory dynamics, we recently proposed a fully quantum-mechanical definition of the asymptotic phase, which is a key…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-02-14 Yuzuru Kato , Hiroya Nakao

We report the first experimental demonstration of quantum synchronization. This is achieved by performing a digital simulation of a single spin-$1$ limit-cycle oscillator on the quantum computers of the IBM Q System. Applying an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Martin Koppenhöfer , Christoph Bruder , Alexandre Roulet

Synchronization in quantum systems has been recently studied through persistent oscillations of local observables, which stem from undamped modes of the dissipative dynamics. However, the existence of such modes requires fine-tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yi J. Zhao , Joel E. Moore , Juzar Thingna , Christopher W. Wächtler

Classical self-sustained oscillators, that generate periodic motion without periodic external forcing, are ubiquitous in science and technology. The realization of nonclassical self-oscillators is an important goal of quantum physics. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Yi Li , Zihan Xie , Xiaodong Yang , Yue Li , Xingyu Zhao , Xu Cheng , Xinhua Peng , Jun Li , Eric Lutz , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

A paradigm for quantum synchronization is the quantum analog of the Stuart--Landau oscillator, which corresponds to a van der Pol oscillator in the limit of weak (i.e. vanishingly small) nonlinearity. Due to this limitation, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-22 Yuan Shen , Wai-Keong Mok , Changsuk Noh , Ai Qun Liu , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Weijun Fan , Andy Chia

We present a generalized information-theoretic measure of synchronization in quantum systems. This measure is applicable to dynamics of anharmonic oscillators, few-level atoms, and coupled oscillator networks. Furthermore, the new measure…

The phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization is universal and only recently advances have been made in the quantum domain. Being synchronization a kind of temporal correlation among systems, it is interesting to understand its connection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Fernando Galve , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Numerous biological systems exhibit transitions to synchronised oscillations via a population-density-dependant mechanism known as quorum sensing. Here we propose a model system, based on spatially distributed limit-cycle oscillators, that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Carles Tardío Pi , Jorge Castillo Medina , Pablo Padilla Longoria

Synchronization blockade refers to an interferometric cancellation of quantum synchronization. In this manuscript, we show how the choice of synchronization measure and Hamiltonian symmetries affect the discussion of synchronization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Parvinder Solanki , Faraz Mohd Mehdi , Michal Hajdušek , Sai Vinjanampathy

We consider a periodic quantum clock based on cooperative resonance fluorescence at zero temperature. In the quantum case, this system has an exact steady state and the limit cycle appears in conditional quantum dynamics under homodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Varinder Singh , Euijoon Kwon , G J Milburn

The synchronization properties of two self-sustained quantum oscillators are studied in the Wigner representation. Instead of considering the quantum limit of the quantum van-der-Pol master equation we derive the quantum master equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Lisa Morgan , Haye Hinrichsen

Macroscopic ensembles of radiating dipoles are ubiquitous in the physical and natural sciences. In the classical limit the dipoles can be described as damped-driven oscillators, which are able to spontaneously synchronize and collectively…

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon encountered in many natural and engineered systems with nonlinear classical dynamics. How synchronization concepts and mechanisms transfer to the quantum realm and whether features are universal or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Florian Höhe , Lukas Danner , Ciprian Padurariu , Brecht I. C Donvil , Joachim Ankerhold , Björn Kubala

A limit cycle is a self-sustained periodic motion appearing in autonomous ordinary differential equations. As the period of the limit cycle is a-priori unknown, it is challenging to find them as stationary states of a rotating ansatz.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-14 Javier del Pino , Jan Košata , Oded Zilberberg

A unified approach for analyzing synchronization in coupled systems of autonomous differential equations is presented in this work. Through a careful analysis of the variational equation of the coupled system we establish a sufficient…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Georgi S. Medvedev

Synchronization is one of the paradigmatic phenomena in the study of complex systems. It has been explored theoretically and experimentally mostly to understand natural phenomena, but also in view of technological applications. Although…

Measurement backaction inherently alters observed dynamics in quantum physics. In the realm of quantum synchronization, this backaction induces a phase bias, making the assessment of synchronization critically dependent on the choice of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Wataru Setoyama , Yoshihiko Hasegawa