Relaxation dynamics of the Kuramoto model with uniformly distributed natural frequencies

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.03.037MaRDI QIDQ1673133zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Anandamohan Ghosh, Shamik Gupta

Publication date 11 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.1727

zbMATH Keywords

Kuramoto modelrelaxation dynamicssynchronization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Relaxation oscillations for ordinary differential equations (34C26) Dynamical systems in other branches of physics (quantum mechanics, general relativity, laser physics) (37N20) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: The Kuramoto model describes a system of globally coupled phase-only oscillators with distributed natural frequencies. The model in the steady state exhibits a phase transition as a function of the coupling strength, between a low-coupling incoherent phase in which the oscillators oscillate independently and a high-coupling synchronized phase. Here, we consider a uniform distribution for the natural frequencies, for which the phase transition is known to be of first order. We study how the system close to the phase transition in the supercritical regime relaxes in time to the steady state while starting from an initial incoherent state. In this case, numerical simulations of finite systems have demonstrated that the relaxation occurs as a step-like jump in the order parameter from the initial to the final steady state value, hinting at the existence of metastable states. We provide numerical evidence to suggest that the observed metastability is a finite-size effect, becoming an increasingly rare event with increasing system size.

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