Self-Consistent Correlations of Randomly Coupled Rotators in the Asynchronous State.

We study a network of unidirectionally coupled rotators with independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) frequencies and i.i.d. coupling coefficients. Similar to biological networks, this system can attain an asynchronous state with pronounced temporal autocorrelations of the rotators. We derive differential equations for the self-consistent autocorrelation function that can be solved analytically in limit cases. For more involved scenarios, its numerical solution is confirmed by simulations of networks with Gaussian or sparsely distributed coupling coefficients. The theory is finally generalized for pulse-coupled units and tested on a standard model of computational neuroscience, a recurrent network of sparsely coupled exponential integrate-and-fire neurons.