Continuous and discontinuous transitions to synchronization

DOI10.1063/1.4968016MaRDI QIDQ4601384zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chaoqing Wang, Nicolas Garnier

Publication date 15 January 2018

Published in Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05584

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Qualitative investigation and simulation of ordinary differential equation models (34C60) Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Synchronization of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34D06)

Abstract: We describe how the transition to synchronization in a system of globally coupled Stuart-Landau oscillators changes from continuous to discontinuous when the nature of the coupling is moved from diffusive to reactive. We explain this drastic qualitative change as resulting from the co-existence of a particular synchronized macrostate together with the trivial incoherent macrostate, in a range of parameter values for which the later is linearly stable. In contrast to the paradigmatic Kuramoto model, this particular state observed at the synchronization transition contains a finite, non-vanishing number of synchronized oscillators, which results in a discontinuous transition. We consider successively two situations where either a fully synchronized state or a partially synchronized state exist at the transition. Thermodynamic limit and finite size effects are briefly discussed, as well as connections with recently observed discontinuous transitions.

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