Predicting mutual entrainment of oscillators with experiment-based phase models.
We show that mutual entrainment in interacting oscillators can be characterized using phase models that are developed from direct experiments with a single oscillator. The models are used to predict order-disorder transitions in populations and the dependence of order on system parameters; the description is verified in independent experiments in sets of chemical oscillators. The experiment-based model properly describes in-phase and antiphase mutual entrainment with positive and negative interactions in small sets as well as dynamical clustering in populations of oscillators.
Kiss
István Z
IZ
Department of Chemical Engineering, 102 Engineers' Way, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4741, USA.
Zhai
Yumei
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Hudson
John L
JL
D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D008954:Models, Biological