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Tanaka Lab
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A lab that explains the mechanisms of synchronization, the phenomenon in which rhythms fall into step.
AboutAbout the lab
Capturing how rhythms fall into step through mathematics.
The Advanced Distributed Systems Lab (Tanaka Lab) studies the mechanisms of synchronization, the phenomenon in which initially disordered rhythms gradually fall into step.
The lab's members come from backgrounds in electrical engineering, electronic and communication engineering, information science, nonlinear physics, and applied mathematics.
Recently, the lab has been working on the energy budget of injection locking, and has also developed a framework for estimating quantities such as noise intensity from oscillators that are synchronized under noise.
The lab's website also describes research on wireless distributed communication networks and on networks of true slime molds, but that description dates from around 2008.
Key terms
- Synchronization
- A phenomenon in which rhythms that are initially disordered gradually fall into step. Huygens discovered it with two pendulum clocks.
- True slime mold
- An organism that takes the form of a multinucleate, single-celled amoeba-like mass, builds large-scale networks, and shows surprisingly smart behavior.
ResearchResearch themes
Synchronization, in which rhythms fall into step, is found everywhere: fireflies flashing in unison, networks of power plants, and the phase-locked loops that are essential for communication and measurement. The lab aims to capture the mechanisms of synchronization in the language of physics and mathematics and to apply the results to engineering.
Mechanisms of synchronization
The lab seeks to capture the mechanism of synchronization itself, in which rhythms fall into step, in the language of physics and mathematics. This field has grown into "synchronization science," which spans many disciplines.
*Illustrative imageEnergy required for synchronization
Focusing on the "compatibility mechanism" in injection locking, which allows several independent synchronization capabilities to be high at the same time, the lab investigates the energy budget required for synchronization. Results for realistic circuit-level systems were published in a paper in 2024.
Synchronization under noise
For small systems where environmental noise cannot be ignored, the lab has developed a framework for estimating the noise intensity and key properties of the system from synchronized oscillators. The results were published in a paper in 2025.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorHisaaki Tanaka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Experimentele opstelling gekoppelde trillingen” OliCol11 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Energy required for synchronization: “BOMAR VCXO Crystal Oscillator” Mister rf / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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