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Enrico Fengler1, Jan Frederik Totz1, Pablo Kaluza2
1Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Hardenbergstraße 36, EW 7-1, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Abstract:
We present an adaptive control scheme that realizes desired dynamics of an oscillator network with a given number of communities by adjusting the coupling weights between oscillators accordingly. The scheme allows, for example, to simultaneously establish different pregiven synchronization levels in the particular communities as well as phase relationships between them. We apply the method in numerical simulations with all-to-all and randomly coupled networks. Moreover, we provide an experimental proof of concept validating our numerical findings in a network of optically coupled photosensitive chemical micro-oscillators.
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