Pulse-Coupled Relaxation Oscillators: From Biological Synchronization to Self-Organized Criticality
- 22 May 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 74 (21) , 4189-4192
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.74.4189
Abstract
It is shown that globally coupled oscillators with pulse interaction can synchronize under broader conditions than widely believed from a theorem of Mirollo and Strogatz. This behavior is stable against frozen disorder. Beside the relevance to biology, it is argued that synchronization in relaxation oscillator models is related to self-organized criticality in stick-slip-like models.Keywords
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