TY - JOUR A1 - Bragard, Jean A1 - Montbrio, Ernest A1 - Mendoza, C. A1 - Boccaletti, Stefano A1 - Blasius, Bernd T1 - Defect-enhanced anomaly in frequency synchronization of asymmetrically coupled spatially extended systems N2 - We analytically establish and numerically show that anomalous frequency synchronization occurs in a pair of asymmetrically coupled chaotic space extended oscillators. The transition to anomalous behaviors is crucially dependent on asymmetries in the coupling configuration, while the presence of phase defects has the effect of enhancing the anomaly in frequency synchronization with respect to the case of merely time chaotic oscillators. Y1 - 2005 UR - http://www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/~bernd/papers/pre4.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bove, I. A1 - Boccaletti, Stefano A1 - Bragard, Jean A1 - Kurths, Jürgen A1 - Mancini, H. T1 - Frequency entrainment of nonautonomous chaotic oscillators N2 - We give evidence of frequency entrainment of dominant peaks in the chaotic spectra of two coupled chaotic nonautonomous oscillators. At variance with the autonomous case, the phenomenon is here characterized by the vanishing of a previously positive Lyapunov exponent in the spectrum, which takes place for a broad range of the coupling strength parameter. Such a state is studied also for the case of chaotic oscillators with ill-defined phases due to the absence of a unique center of rotation. Different phase synchronization indicators are used to circumvent this difficulty Y1 - 2004 ER -