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The counterintuitive emergence of order from noise is a central phenomenon in science, ranging from pattern formation and synchronization to order-by-disorder in frustrated systems. While large-scale spatial self-organization induced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-02 Satyam Anand , Guanming Zhang , Stefano Martiniani

Effect of noise in inducing order on various chaotically evolving systems is reviewed, with special emphasis on systems consisting of coupled chaotic elements. In many situations it is observed that the uncoupled elements when driven by…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 Manojit Roy , R. E. Amritkar

Self-organized criticality (SOC) refers to the ability of complex systems to evolve towards a 2nd-order phase transition at which interactions between system components lead to scale-invariant events beneficial for system performance. For…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-18 Dietmar Plenz , Tiago L. Ribeiro , Stephanie R. Miller , Patrick A. Kells , Ali Vakili , Elliott L. Capek

Spatial patterning and synchronization are pervasive features of plankton communities, yet the mechanisms that allow such patterns to persist coherently under environmental noise remain unresolved. In vertically structured aquatic…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-03-26 Ju Kang , Yiyuan Niu , Yuanzhi Li , Quan-Xing Liu , Chengjin Chu

In the context of the celebrated Kuramoto model of globally-coupled phase oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, which serves as a paradigm to investigate spontaneous collective synchronization in many-body interacting systems, we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-20 Shamik Gupta

Thermoacoustic instability in turbulent combustion systems emerges from the complex interplay among the flame, flow, and acoustic subsystems. While the onset of thermoacoustic instability exhibits global order in system dynamics, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Samadhan A. Pawar , P. R. Midhun , K. V. Reeja , Abin Krishnan , Krishna Manoj , R. I. Sujith

Fluctuations and noise may alter the behavior of dynamical systems considerably. For example, oscillations may be sustained by demographic fluctuations in biological systems where a stable fixed point is found in the absence of noise. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard P. Boland , Tobias Galla , Alan J. McKane

A family of stochastic processes has quasi-cycle oscillations if the oscillations are sustained by noise. For such a family we define a Kuramoto-type coupling of both phase and amplitude processes. We find that synchronization, as measured…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-11-30 Priscilla E. Greenwood , Lawrence M. Ward

We report the occurrence of a self-emerging frequency chimera state in spatially extended systems of coupled oscillators, where the coherence and incoherence are defined with respect to the emergent frequency of the oscillations. This is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-12-28 Sneha Kachhara , G. Ambika

Rhythmic activities that alternate between coherent and incoherent phases are ubiquitous in chemical, ecological, climate, or neural systems. Despite their importance, general mechanisms for their emergence are little understood. In order…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-06-01 Max Thiele , Rico Berner , Peter A. Tass , Eckehard Schöll , Serhiy Yanchuk

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 analyze networked heterogeneous nonlinear systems, with diffusive coupling and interconnected over a generic static directed graph. Due to the network's hetereogeneity, complete synchronization is impossible, in general, but an emergent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Mohamed Maghenem , Elena Panteley , Antonio Loria

Abrupt shifts in ecosystems, brains, markets, and climate are often diagnosed as signs of approaching a tipping point, i.e. a critical bifurcation where stability is lost. Here we reveal a broader and more deceptive mechanism:…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-06 Virgile Troude , Sandro Claudio Lera , Ke Wu , Didier Sornette

It is proposed that self-organisation (SO) in non-equilibrium systems is governed by a general principle: it emerges when a minute subset of system configurations are exceptionally stable and long-lived to survive the noise generated by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-20 Raphael Blumenfeld

Steady-state coherence in open quantum systems is crucial for quantum technologies, yet its behavior is not fully understood due to the interplay between collective and individual decoherence. While collective decoherence is thought to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 S. L. Wu , W. Ma , Zhao-Ming Wang , P. Brumer , Lian-Ao Wu

We study an ensemble of random walkers carrying internal noisy phase oscillators which are synchronized among the walkers by local interactions. Due to individual mobility, the interaction partners of every walker change randomly, hereby…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-04 Robert Großmann , Fernando Peruani , Markus Bär

We show that, in periodically perturbed chaotic systems, Phase Synchronization appears, associated to a special type of stroboscopic map, in which not only averages quantities are equal to invariants of the perturbation, the angular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Baptista , T. Pereira , J. C. Sartorelli , I. L. Caldas , J. Kurths

We describe synchronization transitions in an ensemble of globally coupled phase oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function, and two sources of disorder - diversity of intrinsic oscillatory frequencies and external independent noise.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-23 Vladimir Vlasov , Maxim Komarov , Arkady Pikovsky

The synchronization of coupled chaotic systems represents a fundamental example of self organization and collective behavior. This well-studied phenomenon is classically characterized in terms of macroscopic parameters, such as Lyapunov…

Spontaneous synchronisation is a collective phenomenon that can occur in both dynamical classical and quantum systems. Here, we analyse the spontaneous synchronisation dynamics of vibrations assisting energy transfer in a bio-inspired…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Stefan Siwiak-Jaszek , Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro