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Synchronization of forced reactively coupled van der Pol oscillators is investigated in the phase approximation. We discuss essential features of the reactive coupling. Bifurcation mechanisms for the destruction of complete synchronization…
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Synchronizing a few-level quantum system is of fundamental importance to the understanding of synchronization in the deep quantum regime. We investigate quantum phase synchronization of a two-level system (qubit) driven by a semiclassical…
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We investigate zero-lag synchronization (ZLS) between delay-coupled diode lasers system with mutual optical injection in a face-to-face configuration. We observed numerical evidence of such ZLS without using any relay element or mediating…