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Published on: May 29, 2014
Recurrent synchronization of coupled oscillators with spontaneous phase reformation
1Department of Mathematical Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan Metropolitan City 44919, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
Self-organizing and spontaneous breaking are seemingly opposite phenomena and hardly captured in a single model. We develop a second order Kuramoto model with phase-induced damping which shows phase locking together with spontaneous synchrony breaking and reformation. In a relatively large regime where the interacting force and the damping ratio are of the same order, the dynamics of the oscillators alternates in an irregular cycle of synchronization, formation-breaking, and reorganization. While the oscillators keep coming back to phase-locked states, their phase distribution repeatedly reforms. Also, the interevent time between bursty deviation from the synchronization states follows a power-law distribution, which implies that the synchronized states are maintained near a tipping point.
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