Experimental investigations of synchronization of linearly diffusive coupled van der Pol electronic oscillators are reported. In addition to in- and antiphase stable oscillations, shifted symmetric and asymmetric trajectories have been observed experimentally. However, the experiments have failed to produce stable chaotic behavior in these systems. Extended numeric simulations are then performed to show that the previously believed chaotic region is a transient numeric effect, thereby validating experimental results.
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