Understanding the dynamics of biological and neural oscillator networks through exact mean-field reductions: a review

摘要

The Kuramoto order parameter ( ) encodes the level of synchrony of a phase oscillator population. The state of each oscillator is given by a phase  (black dot, empty arrow) on the circle  . Panel ( ) shows a configuration with high synchrony where . Panel ( ) shows two configurations with : one where the oscillators are approximately uniformly distributed on the circle, the other one where they are organized into two clusters