TY - JOUR A1 - Osipov, Grigory V. A1 - Rosenblum, Michael A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij A1 - Zaks, Michael A. A1 - Kurths, Jürgen T1 - Attractor-repeller collision and eyelet intermittency at the transition to phase synchronization N2 - The chaotically driven circle map is considered as the simplest model ofphase synchronization of a chaotic continuous-time oscillator by external periodic force. The phase dynamics is analyzed via phase-locking regions of the periodic cycles embedded in the strange attractor. It is shown that full synchronization, where all the periodic cycles are phase locked, disappears via the attractor-repeller collision. Beyond the transition an intermittent regime with exponentially rare phase slips, resulting from the trajectory's hits on an eyelet, is observed. Y1 - 1997 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24938 ER -