000120028 001__ 120028 000120028 005__ 20250619084224.0 000120028 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1038/s42005-022-01039-2 000120028 0248_ $$2sideral$$a130850 000120028 037__ $$aART-2022-130850 000120028 041__ $$aeng 000120028 100__ $$aArola-Fernández, Lluís 000120028 245__ $$aEmergence of explosive synchronization bombs in networks of oscillators 000120028 260__ $$c2022 000120028 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000120028 5203_ $$aResearch on network percolation and synchronization has deepened our understanding of abrupt changes in the macroscopic properties of complex engineered and natural systems. While explosive percolation emerges from localized structural perturbations that delay the formation of a connected component, explosive synchronization is usually studied by fine-tuning of global parameters. Here, we introduce the concept of synchronization bombs as large networks of heterogeneous oscillators that abruptly transit from incoherence to phase-locking (or vice-versa) by adding (or removing) one or a few links. We build these bombs by optimizing global synchrony with decentralized information in a competitive percolation process driven by a local rule, and show their occurrence in systems of Kuramoto –periodic– and Rössler –chaotic– oscillators and in a model of cardiac pacemaker cells, providing an analytical characterization in the Kuramoto case. Our results propose a self-organized approach to design and control abrupt transitions in adaptive biological systems and electronic circuits, and place explosive synchronization and percolation under the same mechanistic framework. 000120028 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/UZ-IBERCAJA/224220$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PGC2018-094754-B-C21$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2017-90782-REDT$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FIS2017-87519-P$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO-FEDER/FIS2017-87519-P$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-113582GB-I00$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/CEX2019-000910-S$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/E36-17R-FENOL 000120028 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000120028 590__ $$a5.5$$b2022 000120028 592__ $$a1.844$$b2022 000120028 591__ $$aPHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY$$b17 / 85 = 0.2$$c2022$$dQ1$$eT1 000120028 593__ $$aPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)$$c2022$$dQ1 000120028 594__ $$a8.6$$b2022 000120028 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000120028 700__ $$aFaci-Lázaro, Sergio$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000120028 700__ $$aSkardal, Per Sebastian 000120028 700__ $$aBoghiu, Emanuel-Cristian 000120028 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5204-1937$$aGómez-Gardeñes, Jesús$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000120028 700__ $$aArenas, Alex 000120028 7102_ $$12003$$2395$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Física Materia Condensa.$$cÁrea Física Materia Condensada 000120028 773__ $$g5, 1 (2022), 264 [12 pp.]$$tCommunications Physics$$x2399-3650 000120028 8564_ $$s1584633$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120028/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000120028 8564_ $$s1413438$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/120028/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000120028 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:120028$$particulos$$pdriver 000120028 951__ $$a2025-06-19-08:41:28 000120028 980__ $$aARTICLE