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CHAOS
Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818543
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- National Science Foundation of China [11205002, 91027012, 20933006, 11147163]
- 211 project of Anhui University [02303319-33190133]
- Educational Commission of Anhui Province of China [KJ2012B042]
- Key Scientific Research Fund of Anhui Provincial Education Department [KJ2012A189]
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It has been recently reported that explosive synchronization transitions can take place in networks of phase oscillators [Gomez-Gardenes et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 128701 (2011)] and chaotic oscillators [Leyva et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 168702 (2012)]. Here, we investigate the effect of a microscopic correlation between the dynamics and the interacting topology of coupled FitzHugh-Nagumo oscillators on phase synchronization transition in Barabasi-Albert (BA) scale-free networks and Erdos-Renyi (ER) random networks. We show that, if natural frequencies of the oscillations are positively correlated with node degrees and the width of the frequency distribution is larger than a threshold value, a strong hysteresis loop arises in the synchronization diagram of BA networks, indicating the evidence of an explosive transition towards synchronization of relaxation oscillators system. In contrast to the results in BA networks, in more homogeneous ER networks, the synchronization transition is always of continuous type regardless of the width of the frequency distribution. Moreover, we consider the effect of degree-mixing patterns on the nature of the synchronization transition, and find that the degree assortativity is unfavorable for the occurrence of such an explosive transition. (C) 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
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