On the complete synchronization of the Kuramoto phase model

Abstract

We discuss the asymptotic complete phase–frequency synchronization for the Kuramoto phase model with a finite size N . We present sufficient conditions for initial configurations leading to the exponential decay toward the completely synchronized states. Our new sufficient conditions and decay rate depend only on the coupling strength and the diameter of initial phase and natural frequency configurations. But they are independent of the system size N , hence they can be used for the mean-field limit. For the complete synchronization estimates, we estimate the time evolution of the phase and frequency diameters for configurations. The initial phase configurations for identical oscillators located on the half circle will converge to the complete synchronized states exponentially fast. In contrast, for the non-identical oscillators, the complete frequency synchronization will occur exponentially fast for some restricted class of initial phase configurations. Our estimates are based on the monotonicity arguments of extremal phase and frequencies, which do not employ any linearization procedure of nonlinear coupling terms and detailed information on the eigenvalue of the linearized system around the complete synchronized states. We compare our analytical results with numerical simulations.