Introduction to Focus Issue: Patterns of Network Synchronization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a focus issue on recent advances in network synchronization, highlighting new phenomena like chimera states, symmetry effects, and remote synchronization, and providing an overview of current research developments.

Contribution

It offers an up-to-date overview of emerging patterns and phenomena in network synchronization, serving as a foundational introduction to recent research advances.

Findings

Identification of new synchronization patterns such as chimera states

Insights into symmetry and asymmetry effects on synchronization

Development of techniques to characterize complex network dynamics

Abstract

The study of synchronization of coupled systems is currently undergoing a major surge fueled by recent discoveries of new forms of collective dynamics and the development of techniques to characterize a myriad of new patterns of network synchronization. This includes chimera states, phenomena determined by symmetry, remote synchronization, and asymmetry-induced synchronization. This Focus Issue presents a selection of contributions at the forefront of these developments, to which this introduction is intended to offer an up-to-date foundation.