Emergent Behaviors of Thermodynamic Kuramoto Ensemble on a Regular Ring Lattice

The temporal evolution of Kuramoto oscillators influenced by the temperature field often appears in biological oscillator ensembles. In this paper, we propose a generalized Kuramoto type lattice model on a regular ring lattice with the equal spacing assuming that each oscillator has an internal energy (temperature). Our lattice model is derived from the thermodynamical Cucker–Smale model for flocking on the 2D free space under the assumption that the ratio between velocity field and temperature field at each lattice point has a uniform magnitude over lattice points. The proposed model satisfies an entropy principle and exhibits emergent dynamics under some sufficient frameworks formulated in terms of initial data and system parameters. Moreover, the phase-field tends to the Kuramoto phase-field asymptotically.