How Synchronization Protects from Noise
Figure 1
Simulations of a network of FN oscillators using the Euler-Maruyama algorithm [47].
The dynamics of coupled FN oscillators are given by equation (2). The parameters used in all simulations are ,
,
. (A) shows the trajectory of the “membrane potential” of a noise-free oscillator and (B) depicts the frequency spectrum of this trajectory computed by Fast Fourier Transformation. (C) and (D) present the trajectory (respectively the frequency spectrum) of a noisy uncoupled oscillator (
). (E) and (F) show the trajectory (respectively the frequency spectrum) of a noisy synchronized oscillator within an all-to-all network (
,
,
). Note the temporal and frequential similarities between a noise-free oscillator and a noisy synchronized one. For instance, the main frequency and the first harmonics are very similar in the two frequency spectra. In contrast, the frequency spectrum of a noisy uncoupled oscillator shows no clear harmonics.