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We study the influence of motion on the emergence of synchronization in a metapopulation of random walkers moving on a heterogeneous network and subject to Kuramoto interactions at the network nodes. We discover a novel mechanism of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-16 Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , Vincenzo Nicosia , Roberta Sinatra , Vito Latora

The Kuramoto model, despite its popularity as a mean-field theory for many synchronization phenomenon of oscillatory systems, is limited to a first-order harmonic coupling of phases. For higher-order coupling, there only exists a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-01-22 Chen Chris Gong , Arkady Pikovsky

Synchronization is observed in many natural systems, with examples ranging from neuronal activation to walking pedestrians. The models proposed by Winfree and Kuramoto stand as the classic frameworks for investigating these phenomena. The…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-14 Guilherme S. Costa , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

The Kuramoto model, a paradigmatic framework for studying synchronization, exhibits a transition to collective oscillations only above a critical coupling strength in the thermodynamic limit. However, real-world systems are finite, and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-30 Sergei Kirillov , Vladimir Klinshov

We study the regime of anticipated synchronization recently described on a number of dynamical systems including chaotic and noisy ones. We use simple linear caricatures to show the minimal setups able to reproduce the basic facts…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-27 Oscar Calvo , Dante R. Chialvo , Victor M. Eguiluz , Claudio Mirasso , Raul Toral

Despite the large number of studies on synchronization, the hypothesis that interactions bear a cost for involved individuals has been considered seldom. The introduction of costly interactions leads, instead, to the formulation of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-06 Alberto Antonioni , Alessio Cardillo

We investigate synchronization between two unidirectionally coupled chaotic multi-feedback Ikeda systems and find both the existence and stability conditions for anticipating, lag, and complete synchronizations.Generalization of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Shahverdiev

Motivated by recent interest for multi-agent systems and smart power grid architectures, we discuss the synchronization problem for the network-reduced model of a power system with non-trivial transfer conductances. Our key insight is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Florian Dorfler , Francesco Bullo

We explore chaos in the Kuramoto model with multimodal distributions of the natural frequencies of oscillators and provide a comprehensive description under what conditions chaos occurs. For a natural frequency distribution with $M$ peaks…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-10-07 Lachlan D. Smith , Georg A. Gottwald

We analyze the physical mechanisms leading either to synchronization or to the formation of spatio-temporal patterns in a lattice model of pulse-coupled oscillators. In order to make the system tractable from a mathematical point of view we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Albert Diaz-Guilera , Conrad J. Perez , Alex Arenas

We study the effect of memory on synchronization of identical chaotic systems driven by common external noises. Our examples show that while in general synchronization transition becomes more difficult to meet when memory range increases,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Morgado , Michal Ciesla , Lech Longa , Fernando A. Oliveira

The theory of cointegration has been a leading theory in econometrics with powerful applications to macroeconomics during the last decades. On the other hand the theory of phase synchronization for weakly coupled complex oscillators has…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-14 Rainer Dahlhaus , István Z. Kiss , Jan C. Neddermeyer

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in complex systems. The Kuramoto model serves as a paradigmatic framework for understanding how coupled oscillators achieve collective rhythm. Conventional approaches focus on pairwise…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-03-16 Zheng Wang , Jinjie Zhu , Xianbin Liu

The case of a star topology is studied on the example of Ikeda model-famous interdisciplinary system. The existence and stability conditions for the complete synchronization between constituent systems are found. An agreement between…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-28 E. M. Shahverdiev

We present a general theory for the onset of coherence in collections of heterogeneous maps interacting via a complex connection network. Our method allows the dynamics of the individual uncoupled systems to be either chaotic or periodic,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Juan G. Restrepo , Edward Ott , Brian R. Hunt

Spontaneous synchronization is a general phenomenon in which a large population of coupled oscillators of diverse natural frequencies self-organize to operate in unison. The phenomenon occurs in physical and biological systems over a wide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-31 Shamik Gupta , Romain Bachelard , Tarcisio Rocha Filho

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…

We study the effects of synchronization and desynchronization in ensembles of phase oscillators with the global Kuramoto-Sakaguchi coupling under common noise driving. Since the mechanisms of synchronization by coupling and by common noise…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 D. S. Goldobin , A. V. Dolmatova , M. Rosenblum , A. Pikovsky

We explore both analytically and numerically an ensemble of coupled phase-oscillators governed by a Kuramoto-type system of differential equations. However, we have included the effects of time-delay (due to finite signal-propagation…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-06-16 Liam Timms , Lars Q. English

Here we investigate specifically the transient of a synchronizing system, considering synchronization as a relaxation phenomenon. The stepwise establishment of synchronization is studied in the system of dynamically coupled maps introduced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Gil Benkö , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen