Hopf bifurcation and multistability in a system of phase oscillators

Sergey Astakhov, Naoya Fujiwara, Artem Gulay, Naofumi Tsukamoto, and Jürgen Kurths
Phys. Rev. E 88, 032908 – Published 11 September 2013

Abstract

We study the phase reduction of two coupled van der Pol oscillators with asymmetric repulsive coupling under an external harmonic force. We show that the system of two phase oscillators undergoes a Hopf bifurcation and possesses multistability on a 2π-periodic phase plane. We describe the bifurcation mechanisms of formation of multistability in the phase-reduced system and show that the Andronov-Hopf bifurcation in the phase-reduced system is not an artifact of the reduction approach but, indeed, has its prototype in the nonreduced system. The bifurcational mechanisms presented in the paper enable one to describe synchronization effects in a wide class of interacting systems with repulsive coupling e.g., genetic oscillators.

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  • Received 4 April 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.88.032908

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Sergey Astakhov*

  • Physics Department, Chair of Radiophysics and Nonlinear Dynamics, Saratov State University, 410012 Saratov, Russia

Naoya Fujiwara

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Artem Gulay

  • Physics Department, Saratov State University, 410012 Saratov, Russia

Naofumi Tsukamoto

  • Nuclear Fuel Industries, Ltd., 319-1196 Ibaraki, Japan

Jürgen Kurths

  • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), 14473 Potsdam, Germany; Institute for Complex Systems Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; and Department of Physics, Humboldt University, 12489 Berlin, Germany

  • *s.v.astakhov@gmail.com
  • Present address: FIRST, Aihara Innovative Mathematical Modelling Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 153-8505 Tokyo, Japan; fujiwara@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
  • gulai.artem@gmail.com

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Vol. 88, Iss. 3 — September 2013

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