INTERMITTENT LAG SYNCHRONIZATION IN A PAIR OF COUPLED CHAOTIC OSCILLATORS

D.VALLADARES; M.F.CARUSELA; S.BOCCALETTI.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS

Año: 2001 vol. 11 p. 2699 - 2704

0218-1274

The intermittent lag synchronization of two non identical symmetrically coupled Rossler systems is investigated numerically. This phenomenon is originated by intermittent bursts away from a principal lag synchronization regime, that correspond to jumps of the system toward  other lag configurations. The global scenario of transitions toward a perfect lag synchronization regime may be tracked by the identifcation of  the different lag configurations and the measure of the fraction of time  passed by the system in each one of them. The statistical properties of this intermittent behavior are described and compared with the ones of On-off intermittency.