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Fabrication and Testing of Microfluidic Optomechanical Oscillators
Published on: May 29, 2014
Design of oscillator networks with enhanced synchronization tolerance against noise
Tatsuo Yanagita1, Alexander S Mikhailov
1Osaka Electro-Communication University, Neyagawa, Japan. yanagita@isc.osakac.ac.jp
Abstract:
Can synchronization properties of a network of identical oscillators in the presence of noise be improved through appropriate rewiring of its connections? What are the optimal network architectures for a given total number of connections? We address these questions by running the optimization process, using the stochastic Markov Chain Monte Carlo method with replica exchange, to design networks of phase oscillators with increased tolerance against noise. As we find, the synchronization of a network, characterized by the Kuramoto order parameter, can be increased up to 40%, as compared to that of the randomly generated networks, when the optimization is applied. Large ensembles of optimized networks are obtained, and their statistical properties are investigated.
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