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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2009, Article ID 174546, 14 pages doi:10.1155/2009/174546 Research Article Diffusive Synchronization of Hyperchaotic Lorenz Systems Ruy Barboza Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering at Sao Carlos, University of Sao Paulo, ˜ ˜ 13566-590 Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil ˜ Correspondence should be addressed to Ruy Barboza, rbarboza@sel.eesc.usp.br Received 6 January 2009; Accepted 2 March 2009 Recommended by Jose Roberto Castilho Piqueira ´ The synchronizing properties of two diffusively coupled hyperchaotic Lorenz 4D systems are investigated by calculating the transverse Lyapunov exponents and by observing the phase space trajectories near the synchronization hyperplane. The effect of parameter mismatch is also observed. A simple electrical circuit described by the Lorenz 4D equations is proposed. Some results from laboratory experiments with two coupled circuits are presented. Copyright q 2009 Ruy Barboza. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 1. Introduction Coupled oscillators are currently studied in physics, chemistry, biology, neural networks, and other fields. A large number of coupled oscillators form a complex system for which the investigation of coherence and synchronization is important and in the last decade the discovery that chaotic systems can synchronize added interest to this topic 1–4. An