Abstract
A scheme is designed to achieve phase synchronization (PS) and antiphase synchronization (APS) for an n-dimensional hyperchaotic complex nonlinear system. For this scheme, we have used the idea of an active control technique based on Lyapunov stability analysis to determine analytically the complex control functions which are needed to achieve PS and APS. We applied this scheme, as an example, to study PS and APS of hyperchaotic attractors of two identical hyperchaotic complex Lorenz systems. These complex systems appear in many important fields of physics and engineering. Our scheme can also be applied to two different hyperchaotic complex systems, for which PS and APS have not been investigated, as far as we know, in the literature. Numerical results are plotted to show phases and amplitudes of these hyperchaotic attractors, thus demonstrating that PS and APS are achieved. The bifurcation diagrams are computed for a wide range of parameters of the system parameters and are found to be symmetrical about the horizontal axis for APS, while they lack any symmetry for PS.