Multistability and Juggling States in Frustrated Kuramoto Oscillators on Ring Networks
Abstract
We study the properties of matrix coupled oscillators in ring networks and show that the system supports several families of synchronized clustered solutions. One of these families is characterized by consecutive oscillators belonging to distinct clusters, called alternate ordering, with two classes of solutions. The first consists of one or two static clusters, that lock on phases that depend on the coupling parameters, despite the non-zero natural oscillation frequency. The second one is comprised of clusters that rotate rigidly. The number of clusters depends on the neighbor connectivity. We also investigated sequential ordered clusters and showed that the constraints imposed by the interface oscillators imposes additional restrictions to equilibrium configurations. Although some of these solutions are stable, their basins of attraction depend on model parameters: when the system is initialized with random phases, the oscillators tend to organize themselves into dynamical clusters whose interfaces move along the ring. The oscillators within each cluster remain close to one of the stable phase configurations, while particles are exchanged at the interfaces. When interfaces moving in opposite directions collide, the corresponding clusters annihilate, until a state with interfaces moving in a common direction is reached.
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BibTeX
@misc{costa2026multistability,
title = {{Multistability and Juggling States in Frustrated Kuramoto Oscillators on Ring Networks}},
author = {Guilherme S. Costa and Ricardo Fariello and Marcus A. M. de Aguiar},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.10818},
eprint = {2610.10818},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10818},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Multistability and Juggling States in Frustrated Kuramoto Oscillators on Ring Networks
AU - Guilherme S. Costa
AU - Ricardo Fariello
AU - Marcus A. M. de Aguiar
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/07
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.10818
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.10818
AB - We study the properties of matrix coupled oscillators in ring networks and show that the system supports several families of synchronized clustered solutions. One of these families is characterized by consecutive oscillators belonging to distinct clusters, called alternate ordering, with two classes of solutions. The first consists of one or two static clusters, that lock on phases that depend on the coupling parameters, despite the non-zero natural oscillation frequency. The second one is comprised of clusters that rotate rigidly. The number of clusters depends on the neighbor connectivity. We also investigated sequential ordered clusters and showed that the constraints imposed by the interface oscillators imposes additional restrictions to equilibrium configurations. Although some of these solutions are stable, their basins of attraction depend on model parameters: when the system is initialized with random phases, the oscillators tend to organize themselves into dynamical clusters whose interfaces move along the ring. The oscillators within each cluster remain close to one of the stable phase configurations, while particles are exchanged at the interfaces. When interfaces moving in opposite directions collide, the corresponding clusters annihilate, until a state with interfaces moving in a common direction is reached.
ER -