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Time-periodic phases in populations of nonlinearly coupled oscillators with bimodal frequency distributions

L. L. Bonilla, C. J. Perez Vicente, R. Spigler

patt-solarXiv:patt-sol/9706005

Abstract

The mean field Kuramoto model describing the synchronization of a population of phase oscillators with a bimodal frequency distribution is analyzed (by the method of multiple scales) near regions in its phase diagram corresponding to synchronization to phases with a time periodic order parameter. The richest behavior is found near the tricritical point were the incoherent, stationarily synchronized, ``traveling wave'' and ``standing wave'' phases coexist. The behavior near the tricritical point can be extrapolated to the rest of the phase diagram. Direct Brownian simulation of the model confirms our findings.

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