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The problem of synchronization in heterogeneous networks of linear systems with nonlinear delayed diffusive coupling is considered. The network is presented in new coordinates mean-field dynamics and synchronization errors. Thus the problem…

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Being able to measure time, whether directly or indirectly, is a significant advantage for an organism. It permits it to predict regular events, and prepare for them on time. Thus, clocks are ubiquitous in biology. In the present paper, we…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-23 Andrei D. Robu , Christoph Salge , Chrystopher L. Nehaniv , Daniel Polani

Quantum synchronization is crucial for understanding complex dynamics and holds potential applications in quantum computing and communication. Therefore, assessing the thermodynamic resources required for finite-time synchronization in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Maxwell Aifer , Juzar Thingna , Sebastian Deffner

The paper addresses the problem of time offset synchronization in the presence of temperature variations, which lead to a non-Gaussian environment. In this context, regular Kalman filtering reveals to be suboptimal. A functional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Maurizio Mongelli , Stefano Scanzio

We consider a system of identical van der Pol oscillators, globally coupled through their velocities, and study how the presence of competitive interactions affects its synchronisation properties. We will address the question from two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-03 Teresa Vaz Martins , Raúl Toral

The transmission time of an electromagnetic signal in the vicinity of the earth is calculated to c-2 and contains an orbital Sagnac term. On earth, the synchronisation of the Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB) can be realised by atomic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Goy

Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without clear classical limits, no comprehensive theory has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Berislav Buca , Cameron Booker , Dieter Jaksch

This work presents a decentralized time synchronization algorithm for multi-agent systems. Each agent possesses two clocks, a hardware clock that is perturbed by environmental phenomena (e.g., temperature, humidity, pressure, g forces,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Federico M. Zegers , Sean Phillips

Synchronization of identical chaotic systems subjected to common noise has been the subject of recent research. Studies on several chaotic systems have shown that, the synchronization is actually induced by the non-zero mean of the noise,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -H. Lai , Changsong Zhou

The proliferation of wireless communications networks over the past decades, combined with the scarcity of the wireless spectrum, have motivated a significant effort towards increasing the throughput of wireless networks. One of the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Emeka Abakasanga , Nir Shlezinger , Ron Dabora

Dephasing noise is a ubiquitous source of decoherence in current atomic sensors. We address the problem of entanglement-assisted frequency estimation subject to classical dephasing noise with full spatial correlations (collective) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Francisco Riberi , Gerardo Paz-Silva , Lorenza Viola

We advocate for the systematic use of a symmetrized definition of time delay in scattering theory. In two-body scattering processes, we show that the symmetrized time delay exists for arbitrary dilated spatial regions symmetric with respect…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Gerard , R. Tiedra de Aldecoa

The process of identifying a time variable in time reparameterization invariant theories results in great ambiguities about the actual laws of physics described by a given theory. A theory set up to describe one set of physical laws can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-08 Andreas Albrecht , Alberto Iglesias

Decentralized learning provides a scalable alternative to parameter-server-based training, yet its performance is often hindered by limited peer-to-peer communication. In this paper, we study how communication should be scheduled over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tongtian Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Mingze Wang , Zhanpeng Zhou , Can Wang

A proper time observable for a quantum clock is introduced and it is found that the proper time read by one clock conditioned on another clock reading a different proper time obeys classical time dilation in accordance with special…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Takeshi Chiba , Shunichiro Kinoshita

Limit possibilities of observer-based synchronization systems under information constraints (limited information capacity of the coupling channel) are evaluated. We give theoretical analysis for multi-dimensional drive-response systems…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander L. Fradkov , Boris Andrievsky , Robin J. Evans

The calculation of the dephasing time in electron systems is presented. By means of the Keldysh formalism we discuss in a unifying way both weak localization and interaction effects in disordered systems. This allows us to show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab , C. Castellani

The class of controlled synchronization systems under information constraints imposed by limited information capacity of the coupling channel is analyzed. It is shown that the framework proposed in A. L. Fradkov, B. Andrievsky, R. J. Evans,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Alexander L. Fradkov , Boris Andrievsky , Robin J. Evans

We study the dynamics of networks with coupling delay, from which the connectivity changes over time. The synchronization properties are shown to depend on the interplay of three time scales: the internal time scale of the dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Otti D'Huys , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Manuel Jiménez , Elka Korutcheva , Wolfgang Kinzel

Overdamped stochastic systems maintained far from equilibrium can display sustained oscillations with fluctuations that decrease with the system size. The correlation time of such noisy limit cycles expressed in units of the cycle period is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Davide Santolin , Gianmaria Falasco