Intermingled basins in coupled Lorenz systems

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2012 Mar;85(3 Pt 2):036207. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.036207. Epub 2012 Mar 19.

Abstract

We consider a system of two identical linearly coupled Lorenz oscillators presenting synchronization of chaotic motion for a specified range of the coupling strength. We verify the existence of global synchronization and antisynchronization attractors with intermingled basins of attraction such that the basin of one attractor is riddled with holes belonging to the basin of the other attractor and vice versa. We investigated this phenomenon by verifying the fulfillment of the mathematical requirements for intermingled basins and obtained scaling laws that characterize quantitatively the riddling of both basins in this system.

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  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't