Circular cumulant reductions for macroscopic dynamics of oscillator populations with non-Gaussian noise

Abstract

We employ the circular cumulant approach to construct a low dimensional description of the macroscopic dynamics of populations of phase oscillators (elements) subject to non-Gaussian white noise. Two-cumulant reduction equations for alpha-stable noises are derived. The implementation of the approach is demonstrated for the case of the Kuramoto ensemble with non-Gaussian noise. The results of direct numerical simulation of the ensemble of N=1500 oscillators and the "exact" numeric solution for the fractional Fokker-Planck equation in the Fourier space are found to be in good agreement with the analytical solutions for two feasible circular cumulant model reductions. We also illustrate that the two-cumulant model reduction is useful for studying the bifurcations of chimera states in hierarchical populations of coupled noisy phase oscillators.