Figure 3

(a) Degree of match with the “a” pattern as the width of the uniform distribution from which oscillator frequencies are selected is widened. Stable phase locked synchronization does not occur, and the effect worsens with widening width (denoted in figure legend). (b) Plot of degree of match with the “a” pattern for uniform oscillator frequencies, but iterated σ (shown in the legend). Stability of the degree of match parameter is reasonable until σ = 3.3 × 10⁻³. This is an order of magnitude larger than the typical value of δ that destroys effective synchronization, suggesting that the system is more robust under coupling strength dispersion than frequency dispersion. In both (a) and (b), the shown curves have been averaged across 100 independent simulations, and then subsequently over 100 time steps; larger oscillations in degree of match parameter for wider dispersion widths are still visible.