We investigate the behavior of two different order parameters for the Kuramoto model in the desynchronized phase. Since the primary role of the order parameter is to distinguish different phases, we focus on the ability to discern the desynchronized phase from the synchronized one on complex networks with the size $N$. From the exact derivation of the difference between two order parameters, $\mathrm{\Delta }$, on a star network, we find that these order parameters disagree in the desynchronized phase. We also show that the hub plays an important role and provide an analytic conjecture on the condition that the two order parameters agree with each other as $N\to \infty$. The conjecture is numerically confirmed.

• Received 17 October 2017
• Revised 14 March 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.97.042317