a Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India b Department of Physics, Potsdam University, Potsdam D-14415, Germany c School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Abstract:
Anomalous phase synchronization in nonidentical interacting oscillators is manifest as the increase of frequency disorder prior to synchronization. We show that this effect can be enhanced when a time-delay is included in the coupling. In systems of limit-cycle and chaotic oscillators we find that the regions of phase disorder and phase synchronization can be interwoven in the parameter space such that as a function of coupling or time-delay the system shows transitions from phase ordering to disorder and back.