Phase and Complete Synchronizations in Time-Delay Systems

Synchronization is a fundamental nonlinear phenomenon that has been intensively investigated during a couple of decades. Recently, synchronization of time-delay systems with or without delay coupling and even synchronization of low-dimensional dynamical systems described by ordinary differential equations and maps with delay coupling have become an active area of research in view of its potential applications. In this article, we provide an overview of our recent results on phase synchronization in time-delay systems, which usually exhibits hyperchaotic attractors with complex topological properties, noise-enhanced phase and noise-induced complete synchronizations in time-delay systems. Further, we demonstrate the phenomena of delay-enhanced and delay-induced stable synchronous chaos in a delay coupled network of time continuous dynamical system using the framework of master stability formalism (MSF) for the first time.