Wednesday, November 21, 2012

1211.4616 (Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes et al.)

Motion-induced synchronization in metapopulations of mobile agents    [PDF]

Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Vincenzo Nicosia, Roberta Sinatra, Vito Latora
We study the influence of motion on the emergence of synchronization in a metapopulation of random walkers moving on a heterogeneous network and subject to Kuramoto interactions at the network nodes. We discover a novel mechanism of transition to macroscopic dynamical order induced by the walkers' motion. Furthermore, we observe two different microscopic paths to synchronization: depending on the rules of the motion, either low-degree nodes or the hubs drive the whole system towards synchronization. We provide analytical arguments to understand these results.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4616

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