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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik
DY 28: Nonlinear Dynamics, Synchronization and Chaos - Part I
DY 28.1: Talk
Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 09:30–09:45, BH-N 128
Synchronization by Decoupling — •Malte Schröder1, Manu Mannattil2, Debabrata Dutta3, Sagar Chakraborty2,4, and Marc Timme1 — 1Network Dynamics, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India — 3CGG Services UK, Crompton Way, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 9QN, UK — 4Mechanics and Applied Mathematics Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U.P. 208016, India
Synchronization has a broad range of applications, from biological and ecological settings such as predator-prey dynamics and the migration of large populations, to technical systems such as lasers. In coupled chaotic systems, synchronization typically emerges only for a specific range of coupling parameters and is impossible otherwise. Here, we demonstrate that restricting the coupling to specific regions of phase space widens the range of coupling parameters where synchronization is achieved. This ’trick’ works for simple master-slave systems of two coupled units as well as for larger networks of more complex interaction topologies.