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Title: Partial synchronization in networks of non-linearly coupled oscillators: The Deserter Hubs Model

Abstract

We study the Deserter Hubs Model: a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity of interactions. Under weak force, an oscillator tends to follow the phase of its neighbors, but if an oscillator is compelled to follow its peers by a sufficient large number of cohesive neighbors, then it actually starts to act in the opposite manner, i.e., in anti-phase with the majority. Analytic results yield that if the repulsion parameter is small enough in comparison with the degree of the maximum hub, then the full synchronization state is locally stable. Numerical experiments are performed to explore the model beyond this threshold, where the overall cohesion is lost. We report in detail partially synchronous dynamical regimes, like stationary phase-locking, multistability, periodic and chaotic states. Via statistical analysis of different network organizations like tree, scale-free, and random ones, we found a measure allowing one to predict relative abundance of partially synchronous stationary states in comparison to time-dependent ones.

Authors:
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Associate Laboratory for Computing and Applied Mathematics - LAC, Brazilian National Institute for Space Research - INPE (Brazil)
  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Germany and Department of Control Theory, Nizhni Novgorod State University, Gagarin Av. 23, 606950, Nizhni Novgorod (Russian Federation)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
22402553
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 4; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1054-1500
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ABUNDANCE; CHAOS THEORY; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COUPLINGS; DYNAMICS; INTERACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; OSCILLATORS; PERIODICITY; RANDOMNESS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME DEPENDENCE

Citation Formats

Freitas, Celso, Macau, Elbert, and Pikovsky, Arkady. Partial synchronization in networks of non-linearly coupled oscillators: The Deserter Hubs Model. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4919246.
Freitas, Celso, Macau, Elbert, & Pikovsky, Arkady. Partial synchronization in networks of non-linearly coupled oscillators: The Deserter Hubs Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919246
Freitas, Celso, Macau, Elbert, and Pikovsky, Arkady. 2015. "Partial synchronization in networks of non-linearly coupled oscillators: The Deserter Hubs Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4919246.
@article{osti_22402553,
title = {Partial synchronization in networks of non-linearly coupled oscillators: The Deserter Hubs Model},
author = {Freitas, Celso and Macau, Elbert and Pikovsky, Arkady},
abstractNote = {We study the Deserter Hubs Model: a Kuramoto-like model of coupled identical phase oscillators on a network, where attractive and repulsive couplings are balanced dynamically due to nonlinearity of interactions. Under weak force, an oscillator tends to follow the phase of its neighbors, but if an oscillator is compelled to follow its peers by a sufficient large number of cohesive neighbors, then it actually starts to act in the opposite manner, i.e., in anti-phase with the majority. Analytic results yield that if the repulsion parameter is small enough in comparison with the degree of the maximum hub, then the full synchronization state is locally stable. Numerical experiments are performed to explore the model beyond this threshold, where the overall cohesion is lost. We report in detail partially synchronous dynamical regimes, like stationary phase-locking, multistability, periodic and chaotic states. Via statistical analysis of different network organizations like tree, scale-free, and random ones, we found a measure allowing one to predict relative abundance of partially synchronous stationary states in comparison to time-dependent ones.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4919246},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22402553}, journal = {Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)},
issn = {1054-1500},
number = 4,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}