Order parameter expansion study of synchronous firing induced by quenched noise in the active rotator model

TL;DR

This paper applies an order parameter expansion method to analyze how quenched noise induces transitions to synchronous firing in active rotator systems, providing analytical predictions and numerical validation of critical noise intensities and transition orders.

Contribution

It introduces a novel analytical approach to predict noise-induced synchronization transitions in active rotators with quenched disorder, validated by numerical simulations.

Findings

Accurate prediction of transition points from rest to synchronous firing.

Analytical expressions for critical noise intensities in large coupling regimes.

Critical exponents consistent with other static disorder systems.

Abstract

We use a recently developed order parameter expansion method to study the transition to synchronous firing occuring in a system of coupled active rotators under the exclusive presence of quenched noise. The method predicts correctly the existence of a transition from a rest state to a regime of synchronous firing and another transition out of it as the intensity of the quenched noise increases and leads to analytical expressions for the critical noise intensities in the large coupling regime. It also predicts the order of the transitions for different probability distribution functions of the quenched variables. We use numerical simulations and finite size scaling theory to estimate the critical exponents of the transitions and found values which are consistent with those reported in other scalar systems in the exclusive presence of additive static disorder.