Communications Physics (Oct 2022)

Emergence of explosive synchronization bombs in networks of oscillators

  • Lluís Arola-Fernández,
  • Sergio Faci-Lázaro,
  • Per Sebastian Skardal,
  • Emanuel-Cristian Boghiu,
  • Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes,
  • Alex Arenas

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01039-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Synchronization bombs are large networks of coupled heterogeneous oscillators that operate in a bistable regime and abruptly transit from incoherence to synchronization by adding one or a few links. Self-organized synchronization bombs would be useful to understand switch mechanisms in biological systems, and to design networks to operate in this regime.