2013/03/31 by Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Alessio Cardillo, Alessandro Fiasconaro +3 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.soc-ph #nlin.AO
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.4824312
published as Chaos 23, 043103 (2013) · 10 pages, 6 figures. Manuscript final version
arxiv created 2013/10/02 · arxiv updated 2013/10/03
A novel regime of synchronization, called remote synchronization, where the peripheral nodes form a phase synchronized cluster not including the hub, was recently observed in star motifs. We show the existence of a more general dynamical state of remote synchronization in arbitrary networks of coupled oscillators. This state is characterized by the synchronization of pairs of nodes that are not directly connected via a physical link or any sequence of synchronized nodes. This phenomenon is almost negligible in networks of phase oscillators as its underlying mechanism is the modulation of the amplitude of those intermediary nodes between the remotely synchronized units. Our findings thus show the ubiquity and robustness of these states and bridge the gap from their recent observation in simple toy graphs to complex networks.