Experimental observation of ragged synchronizability

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Jul;78(1 Pt 2):017203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.017203. Epub 2008 Jul 31.

Abstract

Synchronization thresholds of an array of nondiagonally coupled oscillators are investigated. We present experimental results which show the existence of ragged synchronizability, i.e., the existence of multiple disconnected synchronization regions in the coupling parameter space. This phenomenon has been observed in an electronic implementation of an array of nondiagonally coupled van der Pol's oscillators. Numerical simulations show good agreement with the experimental observations.