Kuramoto model with uniformly spaced frequencies:Finite-N asymptotics of the locking threshold

Abstract

We study phase locking in the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators in the special case where the number of oscillators, $N$, is large but finite, and the oscillators' natural frequencies are evenly spaced on a given interval. In this case, stable phase-locked solutions are known to exist if and only if the frequency interval is narrower than a certain critical width, called the locking threshold. For infinite $N$, the exact value of the locking threshold was calculated 30 years ago; however, the leading corrections to it for finite $N$ have remained unsolved analytically. Here we derive an asymptotic formula for the locking threshold when $N\gg 1$. The leading correction to the infinite-$N$ result scales like either $N^{-3/2}$ or $N^{-1}$, depending on whether the frequencies are evenly spaced according to a midpoint rule or an endpoint rule. These scaling laws agree with numerical results obtained by Pazó [Phys. Rev. E 72, 046211 (2005)]. Moreover, our analysis yields the exact prefactors in the scaling laws, which also match the numerics.

8 pages, 3 figures

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