2008/07/08 by Yoji Kawamura, Hiroya Nakao, Kensuke Arai +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #nlin.AO #nlin.CD
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.024101
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 024101 (2008) · 6 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2008/07/08 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The collective phase response to a macroscopic external perturbation of a population of interacting nonlinear elements exhibiting collective oscillations is formulated for the case of globally-coupled oscillators. The macroscopic phase sensitivity is derived from the microscopic phase sensitivity of the constituent oscillators by a two-step phase reduction. We apply this result to quantify the stability of the macroscopic common-noise induced synchronization of two uncoupled populations of oscillators undergoing coherent collective oscillations.