Two types of phase synchronization destruction

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Mar;75(3 Pt 2):036205. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.036205. Epub 2007 Mar 12.

Abstract

In this paper we report that there are two different types of destruction of the phase synchronization (PS) regime of chaotic oscillators depending on the parameter mismatch as well as in the case of the classical synchronization of periodic oscillators. When the parameter mismatch of the interacting chaotic oscillators is small enough, the PS breaking takes place without the destruction of the phase coherence of chaotic attractors of oscillators. Alternatively, due to the large frequency detuning, the PS breaking is accomplished by loss of the phase coherence of the chaotic attractors.