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Yernur Baibolatov1, Oleh E Omel'chenko2, Michael Rosenblum2
1Department of Physics, Kazakh National Women's Teacher Training University, Aiteke Bi str. 99, 050040 Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Abstract:
We analyze cluster states in an ensemble of Stuart-Landau oscillators with two subpopulations of different frequencies. Our main goal is to compare the descriptions of the system's dynamics obtained via the standard first-order phase approximation and the second-order phase reduction. We demonstrate that the second-order model not only provides quantitative improvements in the description but also reveals new dynamical states not present in the standard Kuramoto theory. In particular, it describes bistability of synchronous states in the minimal setup of two coupled oscillators and the existence of three-cluster states, forbidden in the first-order phase description by the Watanabe-Strogatz theory. The very good agreement between the second-order approximation results and the results of numerical simulations of the original Stuart-Landau network highlights the usefulness of high-order phase-reduction models.
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