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Repulsive synchronization in an array of phase oscillators
L S Tsimring1, N F Rulkov, M L Larsen
1Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0402, USA.
Abstract:
We study the dynamics of a repulsively coupled array of phase oscillators. For an array of globally coupled identical oscillators, repulsive coupling results in a family of synchronized regimes characterized by zero mean field. If the number of oscillators is sufficiently large, phase locking among oscillators is destroyed, independently of the coupling strength, when the oscillators' natural frequencies are not the same. In locally coupled networks, however, phase locking occurs even for nonidentical oscillators when the coupling strength is sufficiently strong.
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