title: Experimental phase synchronization of a chaotic convective flow.
abstract: We report experimental evidence of phase synchronization of high dimensional chaotic oscillators in a laboratory experiment. The experiment consists of a thermocapillary driven convective cell in a time dependent chaotic regime. The synchronized states emerge as a consequence of a localized temperature perturbation to the heater. The transition to phase synchronization is studied as a function of the external perturbations. The existence and stability conditions for this phenomenon are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Universidad de Navarra, Irunlarrea s/n, 31080 Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maza
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vallone
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boccaletti