Collective synchronization in the presence of reactive coupling and shear diversity

Ernest Montbrió1, Diego Pazó

  • 1Computational Neuroscience Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain. bertrand.kibler@u-bourgogne.fr

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