Chaos in Kuramoto oscillator networks

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  • Christian Bick
  • Mark J. Panaggio
  • Erik A. Martens

Kuramoto oscillators are widely used to explain collective phenomena in networks of coupled oscillatory units. We show that simple networks of two populations with a generic coupling scheme, where both coupling strengths and phase lags between and within populations are distinct, can exhibit chaotic dynamics as conjectured by Ott and Antonsen [Chaos 18, 037113 (2008)]. These chaotic mean-field dynamics arise universally across network size, from the continuum limit of infinitely many oscillators down to very small networks with just two oscillators per population. Hence, complicated dynamics are expected even in the simplest description of oscillator networks.

Original languageEnglish
Article number071102
JournalChaos
Volume28
Issue number7
Number of pages5
ISSN1054-1500
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2018

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