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Synchronization of Coupled Systems with Spatiotemporal Chaos

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We argue that the synchronization transition of stochastically coupled cellular automata, discovered recently by L.G. Morelli {\it et al.} (Phys. Rev. {\bf 58 E}, R8 (1998)), is generically in the directed percolation universality class. In particular, this holds numerically for the specific example studied by these authors, in contrast to their claim. For real-valued systems with spatiotemporal chaos such as coupled map lattices, we claim that the synchronization transition is generically in the universality class of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with a nonlinear growth limiting term.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9808199,
  title  = {Synchronization of Coupled Systems with Spatiotemporal Chaos},
  author = {P. Grassberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9808199},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, including 3 figures; submitted to Phys. Rev. E