Emergence of phase concentration for the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation

TL;DR

This paper investigates how oscillators described by the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation synchronize as the coupling strength increases, showing phase concentration and bounds on the order parameter, generalizing previous Kuramoto model results.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of phase concentration phenomena and order parameter bounds for the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi equation in large coupling regimes, extending prior Kuramoto model findings.

Findings

Mass concentrates on the average phase asymptotically.

Exponential decay of mass around the antipodal point.

Lower bound on the amplitude order parameter approaches one.

Abstract

We study the asymptotic phase concentration phenomena for the Kuramoto-Sakaguchi(K-S) equation in a large coupling strength regime. For this, we analyze the detailed dynamics of the order parameters such as the amplitude and the average phase. For the infinite ensemble of oscillators with the identical natural frequency, we show that the total mass distribution concentrates on the average phase asymptotically, whereas the mass around the antipodal point of the average phase decays to zero exponentially fast in any positive coupling strength regime. Thus, generic initial kinetic densities evolve toward the Dirac measure concentrated on the average phase. In contrast, for the infinite ensemble with distributed natural frequencies, we find a certain time-dependent interval whose length can be explicitly quantified in terms of the coupling strength. Provided that the coupling strength is sufficiently large, the mass on such an interval is eventually non-decreasing over the time. We also show that the amplitude order parameter has a positive lower bound that depends on the size of support of the distribution function for the natural frequencies and the coupling strength. The proposed asymptotic lower bound on the order parameter tends to unity, as the coupling strength increases to infinity. This is reminiscent of practical synchronization for the Kuramoto model, in which the diameter for the phase configuration is inversely proportional to the coupling strength. Our results for the K-S equation generalize the results in [19] on the emergence of phase-locked states for the Kuramoto model in a large coupling strength regime.