A novel generalization of the Winfree model of globally coupled phase oscillators, representing phase reduction under finite coupling, is studied analytically. We consider interactions through a non-infinitesimal (or finite) phase-response curve (PRC), in contrast to the infinitesimal PRC of the original model. For a family of non-infinitesimal PRCs, the global dynamics is captured by one complex-valued ordinary differential equation resorting to the Ott-Antonsen ansatz. The phase diagrams are thereupon obtained for four illustrative cases of non-infinitesimal PRC. Bistability between collective synchronization and full desynchronization is observed in all cases.
In a recent paper [Chaos 30, 073139 (2020)] we analyzed an extension of the Winfree model with nonlinear interactions. The nonlinear coupling function Q was mistakenly identified with the non-infinitesimal phase-response curve (PRC). Here, we asses to what extent Q and the actual PRC differ in practice. By means of numerical simulations, we compute the PRCs corresponding to the Q functions previously considered. The results confirm a qualitative similarity between the PRC and the coupling function Q in all cases.
We are interested in low-dimensional dynamics in an ensemble of coupled nonidentical generalized oscillators on the 3-sphere. The system of governing equations for such an ensemble is referred to as non-Abelian Kuramoto model in the literature. We establish an analogue (or an extension) of the Ott-Antonsen (OA) result for this model.
The Ott--Antonsen ansatz is a powerful tool to extract the behaviors of coupled phase oscillators, but it imposes a strong restriction on the initial condition. Herein, a systematic extension of the Ott--Antonsen ansatz is proposed to relax the restriction, enabling the systematic approximation of the behavior of a globally coupled phase oscillator system with an arbitrary initial condition. The proposed method is validated on the Kuramoto--Sakaguchi model of identical phase oscillators. The method yields cluster and chimera-like solutions that are not obtained by the conventional ansatz.
The emergence of collective synchronization was reproduced long ago by Winfree in a classical model consisting of an ensemble of pulse-coupled phase oscillators. By means of the Ott-Antonsen ansatz, we derive an exact low-dimensional representation which is exhaustively investigated for a variety of pulse types and phase response curves (PRCs). Two structurally different synchronization scenarios are found, which are linked via the mutation of a Bogdanov-Takens point. From our results, we infer a general rule of thumb relating pulse shape and PRC offset with each scenario. Finally, we compare …
We study an extension of the Winfree model of coupled phase oscillators in which both natural frequencies and phase-response curves (PRCs) are heterogeneous. In the first part of the paper we resort to averaging and derive an approximate model, in which the oscillators are coupled through their phase differences. Remarkably, this simplified model is the 'Kuramoto model with distributed shear' (2011 Phys. Rev. Lett. 106 254101). We find that above a critical level of PRC heterogeneity the incoherent state is always stable. In the second part of the paper we perform the analysis of the full mode…
We develop an approach for the description of the dynamics of large populations of phase oscillators based on "circular cumulants" instead of the Kuramoto-Daido order parameters. In the thermodynamic limit, these variables yield a simple representation of the Ott-Antonsen invariant solution [E. Ott and T. M. Antonsen, CHAOS 18, 037113 (2008)] and appear appropriate for constructing the perturbation theory on top of the Ott-Antonsen ansatz. We employ this approach to study the impact of small intrinsic noise on the dynamics. As a result, a closed system of equations for the two leading cumulant…
Kuramoto's original model describes the dynamics and synchronization behavior of a set of interacting oscillators represented by their phases. The system can also be pictured as a set of particles moving on a circle in two dimensions, which allows a direct generalization to particles moving on the surface of higher dimensional spheres. One of the key features of the 2D system is the presence of a continuous phase transition to synchronization as the coupling intensity increases. Ott and Antonsen proposed an ansatz for the distribution of oscillators that allowed them to describe the dynamics o…
The Watanabe-Strogatz and Ott-Antonsen theories provided a seminal framework for rigorous and comprehensive studies of collective phenomena in a broad class of paradigmatic models for ensembles of coupled oscillators. Recently, a "circular cumulant" approach was suggested for constructing the perturbation theory for the Ott-Antonsen approach. In this paper, we derive the relations between the distribution of Watanabe-Strogatz phases and the circular cumulants of the original phases. These relations are important for the interpretation of the circular cumulant approach in the context of the Wat…
We analyze accuracy of different low-dimensional reductions of the collective dynamics in large populations of coupled phase oscillators with intrinsic noise. Three approximations are considered: (i) the Ott-Antonsen ansatz, (ii) the Gaussian ansatz, and (iii) a two-cumulant truncation of the circular cumulant representation of the original system's dynamics. For the latter we suggest a closure, which makes the truncation, for small noise, a rigorous first-order correction to the Ott-Antonsen ansatz, and simultaneously is a generalization of the Gaussian ansatz. The Kuramoto model with intrins…
The Kuramoto model is a paradigm for studying oscillator networks with interplay between coupling tending towards synchronization, and heterogeneity in the oscillator population driving away from synchrony. In continuum versions of this model an oscillator population is represented by a probability density on the circle. Ott and Antonsen identified a special class of densities which is invariant under the dynamics and on which the dynamics are low-dimensional and analytically tractable. The reduction to the OA manifold has been used to analyze the dynamics of many variants of the Kuramoto mode…
Low-dimensional behavior of large systems of globally coupled oscillators has been intensively investigated since the introduction of the Ott-Antonsen ansatz. In this report, we generalize the Ott-Antonsen ansatz to second-order Kuramoto models in complex networks. With an additional inertia term, we find a low-dimensional behavior similar to the first-order Kuramoto model, derive a self-consistent equation and seek the time-dependent derivation of the order parameter. Numerical simulations are also conducted to verify our analytical results.
We construct a nontrivial generalization of the paradigmatic Kuramoto model by using an additional coupling term that explicitly breaks its rotational symmetry resulting in a variant of the Winfree Model. Consequently, we observe the characteristic features of the phase diagrams of both the Kuramoto model and the Winfree model depending on the degree of the symmetry breaking coupling strength for unimodal frequency distribution. The phase diagrams of both the Kuramoto and the Winfree models resemble each other for symmetric bimodal frequency distribution for a range of the symmetry breaking co…
We study a numerical instability of direct simulations with truncated equation chains for the "circular cumulant" representation and two approaches to its suppression. The approaches are tested for a chimera-bearing hierarchical population of coupled oscillators. The stabilization techniques can be efficiently applied without significant effect on the natural system dynamics within a finite vicinity of the Ott-Antonsen manifold for direct numerical simulations with up to 20 cumulants; with increasing deviation from the Ott-Antonsen manifold the stabilization becomes more problematic.
We derive the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-type phase equation from the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi-type phase model via the Ott-Antonsen-type complex amplitude equation and demonstrate heterogeneity-induced collective-phase turbulence in nonlocally coupled individual-phase oscillators.
Phase synchronization between collective oscillations exhibited by two weakly interacting groups of non-identical phase oscillators with internal and external global sinusoidal coupling of the groups is analyzed theoretically. Coupled amplitude equations describing the collective oscillations of the oscillator groups are obtained by using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz, and then coupled phase equations for the collective oscillations are derived by phase reduction of the amplitude equations. The collective phase coupling function, which determines the dynamics of macroscopic phase differences between…
We study a model of non-identical swarmalators, generalizations of phase oscillators that both sync in time and swarm in space. The model produces four collective states: asynchrony, sync clusters, vortex-like phase-waves, and a mixed state. These states occur in many real-world swarmalator systems such as biological microswimmers, chemical nanomotors, and groups of drones. A generalized Ott-Antonsen ansatz provides the first analytic description of these states and conditions for their existence. We show how this approach may be used in studies of active matter and related disciplines.
We consider general properties of groups of interacting oscillators, for which the natural frequencies are not in resonance. Such groups interact via non-oscillating collective variables like the amplitudes of the order parameters defined for each group. We treat the phase dynamics of the groups using the Ott-Antonsen ansatz and reduce it to a system of coupled equations for the order parameters. We describe different regimes of co-synchrony in the groups. For a large number of groups, heteroclinic cycles, corresponding to a sequental synchronous activity of groups, and chaotic states, where t…
We develop a linear response theory by computing the asymptotic value of the order parameter from the linearized equation of continuity around the nonsynchronized reference state using the Laplace transform in time. The proposed theory is applicable to a wide class of coupled phase oscillator systems and allows for any coupling functions, any natural frequency distributions, any phase-lag parameters, and any values for the time-delay parameter. This generality is in contrast to the limitation of the previous methods of the Ott--Antonsen ansatz and the self-consistent equation for an order para…
We consider systems of many spatially distributed phase oscillators that interact with their neighbors. Each oscillator is allowed to have a different natural frequency, as well as a different response time to the signals it receives from other oscillators in its neighborhood. Using the ansatz of Ott and Antonsen (Ref. \cite{OA1}) and adopting a strategy similar to that employed in the recent work of Laing (Ref. \cite{Laing2}), we reduce the microscopic dynamics of these systems to a macroscopic partial-differential-equation description. Using this macroscopic formulation, we numerically find …
We analyze a large system of globally coupled phase oscillators whose natural frequencies are bimodally distributed. The dynamics of this system has been the subject of long-standing interest. In 1984 Kuramoto proposed several conjectures about its behavior; ten years later, Crawford obtained the first analytical results by means of a local center manifold calculation. Nevertheless, many questions have remained open, especially about the possibility of global bifurcations. Here we derive the system's complete stability diagram for the special case where the bimodal distribution consists of two…
In the context of the celebrated Kuramoto model of globally-coupled phase oscillators of distributed natural frequencies, which serves as a paradigm to investigate spontaneous collective synchronization in many-body interacting systems, we report on a very rich phase diagram in presence of thermal noise and an additional non-local interaction on a one-dimensional periodic lattice. Remarkably, the phase diagram involves both equilibrium and non-equilibrium phase transitions. In two contrasting limits of the dynamics, we obtain exact analytical results for the phase transitions. These two limits…
