Fig 2. A snapshot of the Kuramoto dynamics at a generic time.

N = 100 oscillators (circles) are drawn on the unitary circle, their angular position is given by the oscillator phase. The dynamical behaviour presented in panel a) corresponds to the uncontrolled phase-locked regime for a coupling parameter K = 0.5. In panel b) we report, for the same coupling parameter, the controlled case obtained acting on M = 20 oscillators and γ/4 = 4.25, resulting in a desynchronised behaviour. The underlying network is a Newman-Strogatz small-world network [55] with parameter p = 0.85. The green circle represents the Kuramoto order parameter, its angular position is given by the angle Ψ while its distance from the origin is R.