The Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model of coupled inertial, Hamiltonian rotors is a prototype for conservative dynamics in systems with long-range interactions. We consider the case where the interactions between the rotors are governed by a network described by a weighted adjacency matrix. By studying the linear stability of the incoherent state, we find that the transition to synchrony occurs at a coupling constant $K$ inversely proportional to the largest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix. We derive a closed system of equations for a set of local order parameters and use these equations to study the effect of network heterogeneity on the synchronization of the rotors. We find that for values of $K$ just beyond the transition to synchronization the degree of synchronization is highly dependent on the network's heterogeneity, but that for large values of $K$ the degree of synchronization is robust to changes in the heterogeneity of the network's degree distribution. Our results are illustrated with numerical simulations on Erdös-Renyi networks and networks with power-law degree distributions.
The synchronization pattern of a fully connected competing Kuramoto model with a uniform intrinsic frequency distribution $g(ω)$ was recently considered. This competing Kuramoto model assigns two coupling constants with opposite signs, $K_1 < 0$ and $K_2 > 0$, to the $1-p$ and $p$ fractions of nodes, respectively. This model has a rich phase diagram that includes incoherent, $π$, and traveling wave (TW) phases and a hybrid phase transition with abnormal properties that occurs through an intermediate metastable $π$ state. Here, we consider the competing Kuramoto model on Erdős--Rényi (ER) rando…
Despite the great attention devoted to the study of phase oscillators on complex networks in the last two decades, it remains unclear whether scale-free networks exhibit a nonzero critical coupling strength for the onset of synchronization in the thermodynamic limit. Here, we systematically compare predictions from the heterogeneous degree mean-field (HMF) and the quenched mean-field (QMF) approaches to extensive numerical simulations on large networks. We provide compelling evidence that the critical coupling vanishes as the number of oscillators increases for scale-free networks characterize…