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We study a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity in interaction. Under a week force, an oscillator tends to follow the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-01-28 Celso Freitas , Elbert Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

We investigate phase transitions towards frequency entrainment in large, locally coupled networks of limit cycle oscillators. Specifically, we simulate two-dimensional lattices of pulse-coupled oscillators with random natural frequencies,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Ostborn , S. Aberg , G. Ohlen

How do the combined effects of phase frustration, noise, and higher-order interactions govern synchronization in globally coupled heterogeneous Kuramoto oscillators? To address this question, we investigate a globally coupled network of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-12 Asutosh Anand Singh , Chandrakala Meena

The Kuramoto model has been introduced in order to describe synchronization phenomena observed in groups of cells, individuals, circuits, etc... We look at the Kuramoto model with white noise forces: in mathematical terms it is a set of N…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-14 Lorenzo Bertini , Giambattista Giacomin , Khashayar Pakdaman

Synchronization of non-identical oscillators coupled through complex networks is an important example of collective behavior. It is interesting to ask how the structural organization of network interactions influences this process. Several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-09-13 Lia Papadopoulos , Jason Kim , Jurgen Kurths , Danielle S. Bassett

We study synchronization properties of coupled oscillators on networks that allow description in terms of global mean field coupling. These models generalize the standard Kuramoto-Sakaguchi model, allowing for different contributions of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Vladimir Vlasov , Elbert E. N. Macau , Arkady Pikovsky

We introduce a novel coupling scheme for maximizing the synchronization of Kuramoto oscillator networks under a fixed coupling budget. We show that by scaling the interaction strength between oscillators according to their frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-01 Amit Pando , Eran Bernstein , Tomer Hacohen , Nathan Vigne , Hui Cao , Oren Raz , Asher Friesem , Nir Davidson

In this paper, we consider an $N$-oscillators complexified Kuramoto model. We first observe that there are solutions exhibiting finite-time blow-up behavior in all coupling regimes. When the coupling strength $\lambda>\lambda_c$, sufficient…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Ting-Yang Hsiao , Yun-Feng Lo , Winnie Wang

We study populations of oscillators, all-to-all coupled by means of quenched disordered phase shifts. While there is no traditional synchronization transition with a nonvanishing Kuramoto order parameter, the system demonstrates a specific…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-07-19 Arkady Pikovsky , Franco Bagnoli

Synchronization is a ubiquitous phenomenon occurring in social, biological, and technological systems when the internal rhythms of their constituents are adapted to be in unison as a result of their coupling. This natural tendency towards…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-11 Ignacio Hermoso de Mendoza , Leonardo A. Pachón , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes , David Zueco

Kuramoto oscillators have been proposed earlier as a model for interacting systems that exhibit synchronisation. In this article we study the difference between networks with symmetric and asymmetric distribution of natural frequencies. We…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-12-22 Arindam Saha , R. E. Amritkar

Synchronization and desynchronization are the two ends on the spectrum of emergent phenomena that somehow often coexist in biological, neuronal, and physical networks. However, previous studies essentially regard their coexistence as a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-05-18 Chongzhi Wang , Haibin Shao , Dewei Li

We study dynamics of populations of resonantly coupled oscillators having different frequencies. Starting from the coupled van der Pol equations we derive the Kuramoto-type phase model for the situation, where the natural frequencies of two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-06-27 S. Lück , A. Pikovsky

We study synchronization in a Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators with a bi-harmonic coupling function, in the thermodynamic limit of large populations. We develop a method for an analytic solution of self-consistent…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Komarov , A. Pikovsky

Synchronization commonly occurs in many natural and man-made systems, from neurons in the brain to cardiac cells to power grids to Josephson junction arrays. Transitions to or out of synchrony for coupled oscillators depend on several…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-05-10 Hui Wu , Mukesh Dhamala

The Kuramoto model provides a prototypical framework to synchronization phenomena in interacting particle systems. Apart from full phase synchrony where all oscillators behave identically, identical Kuramoto oscillators with ring-like…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-02 Christian Bick , Tobias Böhle , Christian Kuehn

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 investigate group-level synchronization between oscillator groups induced by common noise in the absence of inter-group coupling. Each group receives a common noise shared by all its oscillators and independent local noise inputs to…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-05-29 Tae-Wook Ko

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

We explore the impact of global resetting on Kuramoto-type models of coupled limit-cycle oscillators with distributed frequencies both in absence and presence of noise. The dynamics comprises repeated interruption of the bare dynamics at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-21 Anish Acharya , Mrinal Sarkar , Shamik Gupta