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Nature 438, 298 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438298b; Published online 16 November 2005

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Communications technology: Chaos down the line

Rajarshi Roy1

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Chaos, goes conventional wisdom, can only be a malign influence in telecommunications. But a technique that uses chaotically varying signals to transmit information more privately may help it shed that bad-boy image.

Synchronization leads to communication — even when the signals used are chaotic. That is the lesson of a study by Argyris and colleagues on page 343 of this issue1.

  1. Rajarshi Roy is in the Department of Physics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
    Email: rroy@glue.umd.edu

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