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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…

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Oscillatory activity is ubiquitous in natural and engineered network systems. The interaction scheme underlying interdependent oscillatory components governs the emergence of network-wide patterns of synchrony that regulate and enable…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-08-12 Tommaso Menara , Giacomo Baggio , Danielle S. Bassett , Fabio Pasqualetti

Although the set of permutation symmetries of a complex network can be very large, few of the symmetries give rise to stable synchronous patterns. Here we present a new framework and develop techniques for controlling synchronization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Weijie Lin , Huawei Fan , Ying Wang , Heping Ying , Xingang Wang

We present a novel interdisciplinary framework that bridges synchronization theory and multi-agent AI systems by adapting the Kuramoto model to describe the collective dynamics of heterogeneous AI agents engaged in complex task execution.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Chiranjit Mitra

Synchronizing phase frustrated Kuramoto oscillators, a challenge that has found applications from neuronal networks to the power grid, is an eluding problem, as even small phase-lags cause the oscillators to avoid synchronization. Here we…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-01-19 Prosenjit Kundu , Chittaranjan Hens , Baruch Barzel , Pinaki Pal

We investigate in depth the synchronization of coupled oscillators on top of complex networks with different degrees of heterogeneity within the context of the Kuramoto model. In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 034101 (2007)], we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-29 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Yamir Moreno , Alex Arenas

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

In this study, we present a general framework for comparing two dynamical processes that describe the synchronization of oscillators coupled through networks of the same size. We introduce a measure of dissimilarity defined in terms of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-03 Alejandro P. Riascos

A paradigmatic framework to study the phenomenon of spontaneous collective synchronization is provided by the Kuramoto model comprising a large collection of limit-cycle oscillators of distributed frequencies that are globally coupled…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-08 Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta

Higher-order networks with multiway interactions can exhibit collective dynamical phenomena that are absent in traditional pairwise network models. However, analyzing such dynamics becomes computationally prohibitive as their state space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Caesnan M. G. Leditto , Angus Southwell , Muhammad Usman , Kavan Modi

After decades of study, there are only two known mechanisms to induce global synchronization in a population of oscillators: deterministic coupling and common forcing. The inclusion of independent random forcing in these models typically…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-03-31 Jeremy Worsfold , Tim Rogers

We study synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators in strongly modular networks in which the structure of the network inside each community is averaged. We find that the dynamics of the interacting communities can be described as an ensemble…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2012-06-19 Per Sebastian Skardal , Juan G. Restrepo

Synchronization over networks depends strongly on the structure of the coupling between the oscillators. When the coupling presents certain regularities, the dynamics can be coarse-grained into clusters by means of External Equitable…

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

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

We investigate the phenomenon of transition to synchronization in Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model in the presence of higher-order interactions and global order parameter adaptation. The investigation is done by performing extensive numerical…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-06-10 Sangita Dutta , Prosenjit Kundu , Pitambar Khanra , Chittaranjan Hens , Pinaki Pal

Oscillatory networks subjected to noise are broadly used to model physical and technological systems. Due to their nonlinear coupling, such networks typically have multiple stable and unstable states that a network might visit due to noise.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-01-27 Jason Hindes , Ira B. Schwartz , Melvyn Tyloo

We study synchronization of coupled Kuramoto oscillators with heterogeneous inherent frequencies and general underlying connectivity. We provide conditions on the coupling strength and the initial phases which guarantee the existence of a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-10-29 Andrey Gushchin , Enrique Mallada , Ao Tang

In this paper, we study the synchronization problem of nonuniform second-order Kuramoto model with homogeneous dampings and frustration effects on an asymmetric network. More precisely, we focus on the second order model defined on an…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Tingting Zhu , Xiongtao Zhang

This paper presents a nonlinear control framework for steering networks of coupled oscillators toward desired phase-locked configurations. Inspired by brain dynamics, where structured phase differences support cognitive functions, the focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Adnan Tahirovic