Conformists and contrarians in a Kuramoto model with identical natural frequencies
Conformists and contrarians in a Kuramoto model with identical natural frequencies
We consider a variant of the Kuramoto model, in which all the oscillators are now assumed to have the same natural frequency, but some of them are negatively coupled to the mean field. These "contrarian" oscillators tend to align in antiphase with the mean field, whereas the positively coupled "conformist" …