Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-07-20
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041132
We investigate both continuous (second-order) and discontinuous (first-order) transitions to macroscopic synchronization within a single class of discrete, stochastic (globally) phase-coupled oscillators. We provide analytical and numerical evidence that the continuity of the transition depends on the coupling coefficients and, in some nonuniform populations, on the degree of quenched disorder. Hence, in a relatively simple setting this class of models exhibits the qualitative behaviors characteristic of a variety of considerably more complicated models. In addition, we study the microscopic basis of synchronization above threshold and detail the counterintuitive subtleties relating measurements of time averaged frequencies and mean field oscillations. Most notably, we observe a state of suprathreshold partial synchronization in which time-averaged frequency measurements from individual oscillators do not correspond to the frequency of macroscopic oscillations observed in the population.
den Broeck Chris Van
Kawai Ryoichi
Lindenberg Katja
Wood Kevin
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