Synchronization in networks of networks: The onset of coherent collective behavior in systems of interacting populations of heterogeneous oscillators

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Barreto, Ernest ^a   Hunt, Brian ^b   Ott, Edward ^c   So, Paul ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

COUPLING STRENGTHS; PHASE OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 40949085564     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.036107     Document Type: Article

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