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The Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators is often used to describe synchronization phenomena in nature. Some applications, e.g., quantum synchronization and rigid-body attitude synchronization, involve high-dimensional Kuramoto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Johan Markdahl , Johan Thunberg , Jorge Goncalves

Synchronization processes are ubiquitous despite the many connectivity patterns that complex systems can show. Usually, the emergence of synchrony is a macroscopic observable, however, the microscopic details of the system, as e.g. the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-08 Lluis Arola-Fernandez , Albert Diaz-Guilera , Alex Arenas

The synchronization pattern of a fully connected competing Kuramoto model with a uniform intrinsic frequency distribution $g(\omega)$ was recently considered. This competing Kuramoto model assigns two coupling constants with opposite signs,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-04 Jinha Park , B. Kahng

Modular networks, such as critical infrastructures, are often built from distinct, densely connected modules (e.g., cities) that are sparsely interconnected. When such networks are gradually and randomly disrupted under a percolation…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-12 Yael Kfir-Cohen , Dana Ben Porath , Bnaya Gross , Sergey Buldyrev , Shlomo Havlin

We describe how the transition to synchronization in a system of globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators changes from continuous to discontinuous when the nature of the coupling is moved from diffusive to reactive. We explain this…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-12-21 Chaoqing Wang , Nicolas B. Garnier

Correlations between intrinsic dynamics and local topology have become a new trend in the study of synchronization in complex networks. In this paper, we investigate in this paradigm the influence of topology on dynamics of networks made up…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Peng Ji , Thomas K. DM. Peron , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

In this paper we study synchronization of random clustered networks consisting of Kuramoto oscillators. More specifically, by developing a mean-field analysis, we find that the presence of cycles of order three does not play an important…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-10 Thomas Kauê Dal'Maso Peron , Francisco Aparecido Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

Due to its description of a synchronization between oscillators, the Kuramoto model is an ideal choice for a synchronisation algorithm in networked systems. This requires to achieve not only a frequency synchronization but also a phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Andreas Bathelt , Vimukthi Herath , Thomas Dallmann

Spontaneous synchronization is a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units, which have diverse natural frequencies and are in weak interaction with one another, evolves to spontaneously…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-08-23 Stefano Gherardini , Shamik Gupta , Stefano Ruffo

Bursting neurons fire rapid sequences of action potential spikes followed by a quiescent period. The basic dynamical mechanism of bursting is the slow currents that modulate a fast spiking activity caused by rapid ionic currents. Minimal…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-16 Fabiano A. S. Ferrari , Ricardo L. Viana , Sérgio R. Lopes , Ruedi Stoop

In this paper, we study the synchronization of identical Kuramoto phase oscillators under cumulative stochastic damage to the edges of networks. We analyze the capacity of coupled oscillators to reach a coherent state from initial random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-31 Leidy Katherin Eraso Hernández , Alejandro P. Riascos

We investigate front propagation and synchronization transitions in dependence on the information transmission delay and coupling strength over scale-free neuronal networks with different average degrees and scaling exponents. As the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-08-19 Qingyun Wang , Matjaz Perc , Zhisheng Duan , Guanrong Chen

We consider the nonlinear extension of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators where the phase shift in the coupling function depends on the order parameter. A bifurcation analysis of the transition from fully synchronous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksandr Burylko , Arkady Pikovsky

In this paper we analyze the second-order Kuramoto model presenting a positive correlation between the heterogeneity of the connections and the natural frequencies in scale-free networks. We numerically show that discontinuous transitions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-11 Thomas K. DM. Peron , Peng Ji , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Jürgen Kurths

By means of numerical analysis conducted with the aid of the computer, the collective synchronization of coupled phase oscillators in the Kuramoto model in the connected regime of random networks of various sizes is studied. The oscillators…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Agostino Funel

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 consider the Kuramoto model on sparse random networks such as the Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph or its combination with a regular two-dimensional lattice and study the dynamical scaling behavior of the model at the synchronization transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 R. Juhász , J. Kelling , G. Ódor

The Kuramoto model and its generalizations have been broadly employed to characterize and mechanistically understand various collective dynamical phenomena, especially the emergence of synchrony among coupled oscillators. Despite almost…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-05-16 Seungjae Lee , Lucas Braun , Frieder Bönisch , Malte Schröder , Moritz Thümler , Marc Timme

We investigate the stability of synchronization in networks of delay-coupled excitable neural oscillators. On the basis of the master stability function formalism, we demonstrate that synchronization is always stable for excitatory coupling…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-10 Judith Lehnert , Thomas Dahms , Philipp Hövel , Eckehard Schöll

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