Anticipating chaotic synchronization

Dissipative chaotic systems with a time-delayed feedback can drive near-ide ntical systems in such a way that the driven systems anticipate the drivers by synchronizing with their (arbitrarily distant) future states. This coun terintuitive behavior is globally stable, robust, and a pure result of the interplay between delayed feedback and dissipation. Thus it constitutes a r ather universal phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics. For small anticipation ti mes, anticipating synchronization also occurs in chaotic systems without a memory term in the driver.