DOI: 10.1140/epjst/e2008-00832-6
Phase synchronization in unidirectionally coupled Ikeda time-delay systems
D.V. Senthilkumar1, 2, M. Lakshmanan1 and J. Kurths31 Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Department of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli 620 024, India
2 Interdisciplinary Centre for Dynamics of Complex Systems, University of Potsdam, Germany
3 Humboldt University, Berlin and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
skumar@cnld.bdu.ac.in
lakshman@cnld.bdu.ac.in
jkurths@gmx.de
Abstract
Phase synchronization in unidirectionally coupled Ikeda time-delay systems
exhibiting non-phase-coherent hyperchaotic attractors of complex topology with
highly interwoven trajectories is studied. It is shown that in this set of
coupled systems phase synchronization (PS) does exist in a range of the
coupling strength which is preceded by a transition regime (approximate PS) and
a nonsynchronous regime. However, exact generalized synchronization does not seem
to occur in the coupled Ikeda systems (for the range of parameters we have
studied) even for large coupling strength, in contrast to our earlier studies in
coupled piecewise-linear and Mackey-Glass systems [27,28].
The above transitions are characterized in terms of recurrence based indices,
namely generalized autocorrelation function P(t), correlation of probability
of recurrence (CPR), joint probability of recurrence (JPR) and similarity of
probability of recurrence (SPR). The existence of phase synchronization is also
further confirmed by typical transitions in the Lyapunov exponents of the
coupled Ikeda time-delay systems and also using the concept of localized sets.
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