Chaotic dynamics of the fractional-order Ikeda delay system and its synchronization

In this paper we numerically investigate the chaotic behaviours of the fractional-order Ikeda delay system. The results show that chaos exists in the fractional-order Ikeda delay system with order less than 1. The lowest order for chaos to be able to appear in this system is found to be 0.1. Master--slave synchronization of chaotic fractional-order Ikeda delay systems with linear coupling is also studied.