Landau damping in the Kuramoto model

Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Synchronization of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D06)

Abstract: We consider the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators in its continuum limit, with individual frequencies drawn from a distribution with density of class

C^{n}

(

n g e q 4

). A criterion for linear stability of the uniform stationary state is established which, for basic examples of frequency distributions, is equivalent to the standard condition on the coupling strength in the literature. We prove that, under this criterion, the Kuramoto order parameter, when evolved under the full nonlinear dynamics, asymptotically vanishes (with polynomial rate

n

) for every trajectory issued from sufficiently small

C^{n}

perturbation. The proof uses techniques from the Analysis of PDEs and closely follows recent proofs of the nonlinear Landau damping in the Vlasov equation and Vlasov-HMF model.

Review text

Various aspects of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators are not completely understood. In this paper, the authors treat, from a rigorous mathematical viewpoint, the complete nonlinear dynamics in the incoherent regime of the continuum limit of the Kuramoto model. The oscillators' intrinsic frequencies are chosen from a sufficiently regular density \(g\), and the authors prove that for every sufficiently regular and small initial perturbation of the uniform steady state, the corresponding order parameter tends to zero as \(t\rightarrow\infty\). They also show that the same conclusion holds for any sufficiently regular (although not necessarily small) perturbation, as long as the coupling strength between oscillators is small enough. The authors use PDE methods, in particular, the approach to Landau damping previously studied in the Vlasov and Vlasov-Hamiltonian mean-field models.

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