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M Manoranjani1, Shamik Gupta2, V K Chandrasekar1
1Centre for Nonlinear Science and Engineering, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur 613 401, India.
Abstract:
The celebrated Kuramoto model provides an analytically tractable framework to study spontaneous collective synchronization and comprises globally coupled limit-cycle oscillators interacting symmetrically with one another. The Sakaguchi-Kuramoto model is a generalization of the basic model that considers the presence of a phase lag parameter in the interaction, thereby making it asymmetric between oscillator pairs. Here, we consider a further generalization by adding an interaction that breaks the phase-shift symmetry of the model. The highlight of our study is the unveiling of a very rich bifurcation diagram comprising of both oscillatory and non-oscillatory synchronized states as well as an incoherent state: There are regions of two-state as well as an interesting and hitherto unexplored three-state coexistence arising from asymmetric interactions in our model.
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