title: Limits to the experimental detection of nonlinear synchrony.
abstract: Chaos synchronization is often characterized by the existence of a continuous function between the states of the components. However, in coupled systems without inherent symmetries, the synchronization set can be extremely complicated. We describe and illustrate three typical complications that can arise, and we discuss how existing methods for detecting synchronization will be hampered by the presence of these features.
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, USA.
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: So
authors: Ernest
authors: E
authors: Barreto
authors: Kresimir
authors: K
authors: Josić
authors: Evelyn
authors: E
authors: Sander
authors: Steven J
authors: SJ
authors: Schiff
mesh_terms: D008954:Models, Biological; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics