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Competition between noise and coupling in the induction of synchronisation.

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Article number30005
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>16/11/2009
<mark>Journal</mark>EPL
Issue number3
Volume88
Number of pages5
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We apply a Fokker-Planck analysis to investigate the relative influences of coupling strength and noise on the synchronisation of two phase oscillators. We go beyond earlier studies of noise-induced synchronisation (without couplings) and coupling-induced synchronisation (without common noise) to consider both effects together, and we obtain a result that is very different from a straightforward superposition of the effects of each agent acting alone: two regimes are possible depending on which agent is inducing the synchronisation. In each regime, one agent induces and the other hinders the synchronisation. In particular we show that, counterintuitively, coupling can sometimes inhibit synchronisation.