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Recently, there has been considerable interest in the study of
spontaneous synchronization, particularly within the framework of the
Kuramoto model. In this talk, I will outline recent progress and, in
particular, I will put forward a general framework in which I will
discuss in a unified way known result and more recent developments
obtained for a generalized Kuramoto model that includes inertial
effects and noise. I will describe the model from a different
perspective, emphasizing the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium
aspects of its dynamics from a statistical physics point of view.
References [1] S. Gupta, A. Campa and S. Ruffo: Nonequilibrium first-order phase transition in coupled oscillator systems with inertia and noise, Phys. Rev. E 89, 022123 (2014) [2] S. Gupta, A. Campa and S. Ruffo: Kuramoto model of synchronization: equilibrium and non equilibrium aspects, J. Stat. Mech.: Theory and Experiment, in press (2014) |