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We consider models of identical pulse-coupled oscillators with global interactions. Previous work showed that under certain conditions such systems always end up in sync, but did not quantify how small clusters of synchronized oscillators…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-12 Kevin P. O'Keeffe , Pavel L. Krapivsky , Steven H. Strogatz

The present paper explores the synchronization scenario of hyperchaotic time-delayed electronic oscillators coupled indirectly via a common environment. We show that depending upon the coupling parameters a hyperchaotic time-delayed system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-23 Tanmoy Banerjee , Debabrata Biswas

Synchronization is an important dynamical phenomenon in coupled nonlinear systems, which has been studied extensively in recent years. However, analysis focused on individual orbits seems hard to extend to complex systems while a global…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-04 Jing Hu , Yueheng Lan

The phenomenon of synchronization, where entities exhibit stable oscillations with aligned frequencies and phases, has been detected in diverse areas of natural science. It plays a crucial role in achieving frequency locking in multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tong Liu , Laura García-Álvarez , Giovanna Tancredi

Experimental exploration of synchronization in scalable oscillator micro systems has unfolded a deeper understanding of networks, collective phenomena, and signal processing. Cavity optomechanical devices have played an important role in…

Synchronization is of importance in both fundamental and applied physics, but their demonstration at the micro/nanoscale is mainly limited to low-frequency oscillations like mechanical resonators. Here, we report the synchronization of two…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-09 Da Xu , Zi-Zhao Han , Yu-Kun Lu , Qihuang Gong , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Gang Chen , Yun-Feng Xiao

Circadian clocks are biochemical oscillators that allow organisms to estimate the time of the day. These oscillators are inherently noisy due to the discrete nature of the reactants and the stochastic character of their interactions. To…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Michele Monti , David K. Lubensky , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Nonlinear oscillations and synchronisation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature. We study the synchronization of self oscillating magneto-optically trapped cold atoms to a weak external driving. The oscillations arise from a dynamical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Hermanni Heimonen , Leong Chuan Kwek , Robin Kaiser , Guillaume Labeyrie

Synchronization of coupled harmonic oscillators is investigated. Coupling considered here is pairwise, unidirectional, and described by a nonlinear function (whose graph resides in the first and third quadrants) of some projection of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-08-04 S. Emre Tuna

The property of desynchronization in an all-to-all network of homogeneous impulse-coupled oscillators is studied. Each impulse-coupled oscillator is modeled as a hybrid system with a single timer state that self-resets to zero when it…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Sean Phillips , Ricardo G. Sanfelice

The control of complex systems and network-coupled dynamical systems is a topic of vital theoretical importance in mathematics and physics with a wide range of applications in engineering and various other sciences. Motivated by recent…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-08-24 Per Sebastian Skardal , Alex Arenas

The synchronization of coupled oscillators is a fascinating manifestation of self-organization that nature employs to orchestrate essential processes of life, such as the beating of the heart. Although it was long thought that synchrony or…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2013-07-29 Erik Andreas Martens , Shashi Thutupalli , Antoine Fourrière , Oskar Hallatschek

We investigate synchronization of coupled organ pipes. Synchronization and reflection in the organ lead to undesired weakening of the sound in special cases. Recent experiments have shown that sound interaction is highly complex and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-14 Jakub Sawicki , Markus Abel , Eckehard Schöll

Physiological networks are usually made of a large number of biological oscillators evolving on a multitude of different timescales. Phase oscillators are particularly useful in the modelling of the synchronization dynamics of such systems.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-27 Melvyn Tyloo

We construct an analytical theory of interplay between synchronizing effects by common noise and by global coupling for a general class of smooth limit-cycle oscillators. Both the cases of attractive and repulsive coupling are considered.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-04-02 Denis S. Goldobin , Anastasiya V. Dolmatova

Pulse-coupled oscillator models inspired by firefly synchronization are widely used to study decentralized time coordination in distributed systems. We analyze a discrete-time, discrete-phase firefly-inspired synchronization model and show…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Till Aust , Tianfu Zhang , Andreagiovanni Reina , Heiko Hamann

We explore systems of pulse-coupled oscillators beyond the mean-field limit [R.E. Mirollo and S.H. Strogatz, {SIAM J. Appl. Math.} {\bf 50}, 1645 (1990)] by means of a manageable description which leads to a great simplification of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. G. Vilar , A. Corral

We consider a population of globally coupled oscillators driven by common noise. By applying the Ott-Antonsen ansatz and by averaging over the fast oscillations, we obtain analytically tractable equations for the noisy evolution of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-05-03 Anastasiya V. Pimenova , Denis S. Goldobin , Michael Rosenblum , Arkady Pikovsky

The use of optical clocks/oscillators in future ultra-precise navigation, gravitational sensing, coherent arrays, and relativity experiments will require time comparison and synchronization over terrestrial or satellite free-space links.…

Synchronization in a lattice of a finite population of phase oscillators with algebraically decaying, non-normalized coupling is studied by numerical simulations. A critical level of decay is found, below which full locking takes place if…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Maródi , F. d'Ovidio , T. Vicsek