Experimental study of the irrational phase synchronization of coupled nonidentical mechanical metronomes.

It has recently been observed in numerical simulations that the phases of two coupled nonlinear oscillators can become locked into an irrational ratio, exhibiting the phenomenon of irrational phase synchronization (IPS) [Phys. Rev. E 69, 056228 (2004)]. Here, using two coupled nonidentical periodic...

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Main Authors: Zhiwen Song, Ye Wu, Weiqing Liu, Jinghua Xiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4364733?pdf=render