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A modified Kuramoto model of synchronization in a finite discrete system of locally coupled oscillators is studied. The model consists of N oscillators with random natural frequencies arranged on a ring. It is shown analytically and…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-06-30 J. Ochab , P. F. Góra

Synchronization underlies phenomena including memory and perception in the brain, coordinated motion of animal flocks, and stability of the power grid. These synchronization phenomena are often modeled through networks of phase-coupled…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Andrew Clark , Basel Alomair , Linda Bushnell , Radha Poovendran

We study the synchronisation properties of the Kuramoto model of coupled phase oscillators on a general network. Here we distinguish the ability of such a system to self-synchronise from the stability of this behaviour. While…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander C. Kalloniatis

The onset of synchronization in networks of networks is investigated. Specifically, we consider networks of interacting phase oscillators in which the set of oscillators is composed of several distinct populations. The oscillators in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Ernest Barreto , Brian Hunt , Edward Ott , Paul So

We study optimal synchronization in networks of heterogeneous phase oscillators. Our main result is the derivation of a synchrony alignment function that encodes the interplay between network structure and oscillators' frequencies and can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-10-21 Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor , Jie Sun

Networks of coupled oscillators are some of the most studied objects in the theory of dynamical systems. Two important areas of current interest are the study of synchrony in highly disordered systems and the modeling of systems with…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-05-07 Matthew Ricci , Minju Jung , Yuwei Zhang , Mathieu Chalvidal , Aneri Soni , Thomas Serre

Despite growing interest in synchronization dynamics over "higher-order" network models, optimization theory for such systems is limited. Here, we study a family of Kuramoto models inspired by algebraic topology in which oscillators are…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-12 Cameron Purple , Per Sebastian Skardal , Dane Taylor

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

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

We consider networks of coupled stochastic oscillators. When coupled we find strong collective oscillations, while each unit remains stochastic. In the limit (N\to \infty) we derive a system of integro-delay equations and show analytically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Naundorf , T. Prager , L. Schimansky-Geier

We study the phase synchronization of Kuramoto's oscillators in small parts of networks known as motifs. We first report on the system dynamics for the case of a scale-free network and show the existence of a non-trivial critical point. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yamir Moreno , Miguel Vazquez-Prada , Amalio F. Pacheco

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

Synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators is known to be largely determined by the spectral and symmetry properties of the interaction network. Here we leverage this relation to study a class of networks for which the threshold…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-12-21 Takashi Nishikawa , Adilson E. Motter

Synchronization of networked oscillators is known to depend fundamentally on the interplay between the dynamics of the graph's units and the microscopic arrangement of the network's structure. For non identical elements, the lack of…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2016-01-20 A. Navas , J. A. Villacorta-Atienza , I. Leyva , J. A. Almendral , I. Sendiña-Nadal , S. Boccaletti

In his classical work, Kuramoto analytically described the onset of synchronization in all-to-all coupled networks of phase oscillators with random intrinsic frequencies. Specifically, he identified a critical value of the coupling…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Hayato Chiba , Georgi S. Medvedev , Matthew S. Mizuhara

The emergence of synchronization in a network of coupled oscillators is a pervasive topic in various scientific disciplines ranging from biology, physics, and chemistry to social networks and engineering applications. A coupled oscillator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-07 Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

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

We investigate topological and spectral properties of models of European and US-American power grids and of paradigmatic network models as well as their implications for the synchronization dynamics of phase oscillators with heterogeneous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-29 Max Potratzki , Timo Bröhl , Thorsten Rings , Klaus Lehnertz

This paper investigates synchronization phenomena in networks of coupled oscillators governed by three-time-scale dynamical systems exhibiting canard dynamics. A mathematical framework has been developed to analyze the synchronization of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Navojit Dhali Pallab

We study the emergence of synchronisation in a chiral network of harmonic oscillators. The network consists of a set of locally incoherently pumped harmonic oscillators coupled pairwise in cascade with travelling field modes. Such cascaded…