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Shigefumi Hata1, Takeaki Shimokawa, Kensuke Arai
1Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
Nonlinear oscillators can mutually synchronize when they are driven by common external impulses. Two important scenarios are (i) synchronization resulting from phase locking of each oscillator to regular periodic impulses and (ii) noise-induced synchronization caused by the Poisson random impulses, but their difference has not been fully quantified. Here, we analyze a pair of uncoupled oscillators subject to common random impulses with gamma-distributed intervals, which can be smoothly interpolated between the regular periodic and the random Poisson impulses. Their dynamics are characterized by phase distributions, frequency detuning, Lyapunov exponents, and information-theoretic measures, which clearly reveal the differences between the two synchronization scenarios.
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