Transition to phase synchronization in coupled periodically driven chaotic pendulums

Pseudolaminar chaos from on-off intermittency

In finite-dimensional, chaotic, Lorenz-like wave-particle dynamical systems one can find diffusive trajectories, which share their appearance with that of laminar chaotic diffusion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 074101 (2022)0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.128.074101] known from delay systems with lag-time modulation. Applying, however, to such systems a test for laminar chaos, as proposed in [Phys. Rev. E 101, 032213 (2020)2470-004510.1103/PhysRevE.101.032213], these signals fail such a test, thus leading to the notion of pseudolaminar chaos. The latter can be interpreted as integrated periodically driven on-off intermittency. We demonstrate that, on a signal level, true laminar and pseudolaminar chaos are hardly distinguishable in systems with and without dynamical noise. However, very pronounced differences become apparent when correlations of signals and increments are considered. We compare and contrast these properties of pseudolaminar chaos with true laminar chaos.

Oscillatory and rotatory synchronization of chaotic autonomous phase systems

The existence of rotatory, oscillatory, and oscillatory-rotatory synchronization of two coupled chaotic phase systems is demonstrated in the paper. We find four types of transition to phase synchronization depending on coherence properties of motions, characterized by phase variable diffusion. When diffusion is small the onset of phase synchronization is accompanied by a change in the Lyapunov spectrum; one of the zero Lyapunov exponents becomes negative shortly before this onset. If the diffusion of the phase variable is strong then phase synchronization and generalized synchronization, occur simultaneously, i.e., one of the positive Lyapunov exponents becomes negative, or generalized synchronization even sets in before phase synchronization. For intermediate diffusion the phase synchronization appears via interior crisis of the hyperchaotic set. Soft and hard transitions to phase synchronization are discussed.