Dynamics of a new composite four–Scroll chaotic system

A new three-dimensional autonomous chaotic system is proposed. This new system can generate single-scroll, double-scroll, three-scroll and four-scroll attractors under different system parameters. Particularly, it can generate a four-scroll chaotic attractor composed of a large Chua-like attractor and a small Lorenz-like attractor. And the system can also generate a nested three-scroll attractor and the multi-double-scroll chaotic attractor. In addition, the system possesses the chaotic state transition, and the number of scrolls will change in the state transition process. The formation mechanism of the composite four-scroll chaotic attractor is analyzed in detail. The dynamic analysis methods include time series, 0–1 test chart, phase diagram, bifurcation diagram and Lyapunov exponents are used to describe some basic dynamics behaviors of the proposed system.     

Origin of transient and intermittent dynamics in spatiotemporal chaotic systems

Nonattracting chaotic sets (chaotic saddles) are shown to be responsible for transient and intermittent dynamics in an extended system exemplified by a nonlinear regularized long-wave equation, relevant to plasma and fluid studies. As the driver amplitude is increased, the system undergoes a transition from quasiperiodicity to temporal chaos, then to spatiotemporal chaos. The resulting intermittent time series of spatiotemporal chaos displays random switching between laminar and bursty phases. We identify temporally and spatiotemporally chaotic saddles which are responsible for the laminar and bursty phases, respectively. Prior to the transition to spatiotemporal chaos, a spatiotemporally chaotic saddle is responsible for chaotic transients that mimic the dynamics of the post-transition attractor.     

Correlation between jerky flow and jerky dynamics in a nanoscratch on a metallic glass film

Chaos has been well understood in dynamic system, however, how the chaotic behavior occur in jerky flow in material, is still not clear, and is lack of specific chaotic attractor. Here the jerky evolution of lateral force and the stair-like fluctuation of lateral displacement are observed for Ni62 Nb38(at.%) metallic glass film during nanoscratch process. This jerky flow is investigated by using the largest Lyapunov exponent, Kolmogorov entropy and fractal dimension, and chaotic behavior of lateral force-time and normal displacement-lateral displacement sequences is verified. In addition to time series analysis, it is found that jerk equation can be used to describe the jerky flow of the metallic-glass film during nanoscratch. More importantly, unambiguous chaotic attractor is presented by jerky dynamics using "jerk"-singularities, namely the total change rate of lateral force relative to scratch time. These reveal an inner connection between jerky flow and jerky dynamics in nanoscratch of a metallic-glass film.     

Dynamical phases of the Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal model: studies of the transition from bursting to spiking chaos

The dynamical phases of the Hindmarsh-Rose neuronal model are analyzed in detail by varying the external current I. For increasing current values, the model exhibits a peculiar cascade of nonchaotic and chaotic period-adding bifurcations leading the system from the silent regime to a chaotic state dominated by bursting events. At higher I-values, this phase is substituted by a regime of continuous chaotic spiking and finally via an inverse period doubling cascade the system returns to silence. The analysis is focused on the transition between the two chaotic phases displayed by the model: one dominated by spiking dynamics and the other by bursts. At the transition an abrupt shrinking of the attractor size associated with a sharp peak in the maximal Lyapunov exponent is observable. However, the transition appears to be continuous and smoothed out over a finite current interval, where bursts and spikes coexist. The beginning of the transition (from the bursting side) is signaled from a structural modification in the interspike interval return map. This change in the map shape is associated with the disappearance of the family of solutions responsible for the onset of the bursting chaos. The successive passage from bursting to spiking chaos is associated with a progressive pruning of unstable long-lasting bursts.     

A novel 3D autonomous system with different multilayer chaotic attractors

This Letter proposes a novel three-dimensional autonomous system which has complex chaotic dynamics behaviors and gives analysis of novel system. More importantly, the novel system can generate three-layer chaotic attractor, four-layer chaotic attractor, five-layer chaotic attractor, multilayer chaotic attractor by choosing different parameters and initial condition. We analyze the new system by means of phase portraits, Lyapunov exponent spectrum, fractional dimension, bifurcation diagram and Poincaré maps of the system. The three-dimensional autonomous system is totally different from the well-known systems in previous work. The new multilayer chaotic attractors are also worth causing attention.     

一类含非黏滞阻尼的Duffing单边碰撞系统的激变研究

以一类含非黏滞阻尼的Duffing单边碰撞系统为研究对象, 运用复合胞坐标系方法, 分析了该系统的全局分岔特性. 对于非黏滞阻尼模型而言, 它与物体运动速度的时间历程相关, 能更真实地反映出结构材料的能量耗散现象. 研究发现, 随着阻尼系数、松弛参数及恢复系数的变化, 系统发生两类激变现象: 一种是混沌吸引子与其吸引域内的混沌鞍发生碰撞而产生的内部激变, 另一种是混沌吸引子与吸引域边界上的周期鞍(混沌鞍)发生碰撞而产生的常规边界激变(混沌边界激变), 这两类激变都使得混沌吸引子的形状发生突然改变. 关键词： 非黏滞阻尼 Duffing碰撞振动系统 激变 复合胞坐标系方法     

Phase synchronization of chaotic rotators

We demonstrate the existence of phase synchronization of two chaotic rotators. Contrary to phase synchronization of chaotic oscillators, here the Lyapunov exponents corresponding to both phases remain positive even in the synchronous regime. Such frequency locked dynamics with different ratios of frequencies are studied for driven continuous-time rotators and for discrete circle maps. We show that this transition to phase synchronization occurs via a crisis transition to a band-structured attractor.     

Underlying dynamics of the pedestal components in a modulated laser diode with noise

We demonstrate that the pedestal components observed in the power spectra of a directly modulated laser diode, which were interpreted as a sign of instability of the periodic regime, are an indication of the coexistence of a chaotic regime with the periodic one. We present the underlying dynamics behind the rise of these pedestals, showing two different situations in which the pedestals appear. In both, a periodic regime coexists with another attractor, a saddle cycle in one case and a chaotic attractor in the other. The random fluctuations included in the laser diode model allow the coexisting attractors to merge in the observed behavior of the laser.     

Crossing bifurcations and unstable dimension variability

A crisis is a global bifurcation in which a chaotic attractor has a discontinuous change in size or suddenly disappears as a scalar parameter of the system is varied. In this Letter, we describe a global bifurcation in three dimensions which can result in a crisis. This bifurcation does not involve a tangency and cannot occur in maps of dimension smaller than 3. We present evidence of unstable dimension variability as a result of the crisis. We then derive a new scaling law describing the density of the new portion of the attractor formed in the crisis. We illustrate this new type of bifurcation with a specific example of a three-dimensional chaotic attractor undergoing a crisis.     

Hyperchaos--chaos--Hyperchaos Transition in a Class of On--Off Intermittent Systems Driven by a Family of Generalized Lorenz Systems

Blowout bifurcation in nonlinear systems occurs when a chaotic attractor lying in some symmetric subspace becomes transversely unstable. A class of five-dimensional continuous autonomous systems is considered, in which a two-dimensional subsystem is driven by a family of generalized Lorenz systems. The systems have some common dynamical characters. As the coupling parameter changes, blowout bifurcations occur in these systems and brings on change of the systems＇ dynamics. After the bifurcation the phenomenon of on-off intermittency appears. It is observed that the systems undergo a symmetric hyperchaos-chaos-hyperchaos transition via or after blowout bifurcations. An example of the systems is given, in which the drive system is the Chen system. We investigate the dynamical behaviour before and after the blowout bifurcation in the systems and make an analysis of the transition process. It is shown that in such coupled chaotic continuous systems, blowout bifurcation leads to a transition from chaos to hyperchaos for the whole systems, which provides a route to hyperchaos.     

TS fuzzy realization of chaotic Lü system

The Lü attractor is a new chaotic attractor, which connects the Lorenz attractor and the Chen attractor and represents the transition from one to the other. The Letter presents a hybrid TS fuzzy modeling approach for the newly coined chaotic Lü system. Then the abundant and fundamental dynamical behaviors of the chaotic Lü system are completely and comprehensive investigated based on this novel hybrid TS fuzzy model.     

Statistical-thermodynamic approach to a chaotic dynamical system: Exactly solvable examples

The static and dynamic properties of a chaotic attractor of a two-dimensional map are studied, which belongs to a particular class of piecewise continuous invertible maps. Coverings of a natural size to cover the attractor are introduced, so that the microscopic information of the attractor is written on each box composing the cover. The statistical thermodynamics of the scaling indices and the size indices of the boxes is formulated. Analytic forms of the free energy functions of the scaling indices and the size indices of the boxes are obtained for examples of a hyperbolic and a nonhyperbolic chaotic attractor. The statistical thermodynamics of local Lyapunov exponents is also studied and a relation between the thermodynamics of scaling indices and of local Lyapunov exponents is invetigated. For the nonhyperbolic example, the free energy and entropy functions of local Lyapunov exponents are obtained in analytic forms. These results display the existence of phase transitions. A phase transition is seen in the thermodynamics of scaling indices also.     

On the Dynamics of a Model with Coexistence of Three Attractors: A Point,a Periodic Orbit and a Strange Attractor

For a dynamical system described by a set of autonomous differential equations, an attractor can be either a point, or a periodic orbit, or even a strange attractor. Recently a new chaotic system with only one parameter has been presented where besides a point attractor and a chaotic attractor, it also has a coexisting attractor limit cycle which makes evident the complexity of such a system. We study using analytic tools the dynamics of such system. We describe its global dynamics near the infinity, and prove that it has no Darboux first integrals.     

Quasistable states in globally coupled tent map systems

The characteristics of long lasting but not perpetual chaotic states appear in a wide parameter region in a globally coupled overcritical tent map system are exhibited. The lifetime of the transient state has essential relevance with the system size. In some parameter region, the lifetime saturates at a certain level, while in another region it seems to diverge as the size of the system grows. In order to uncover the dynamical structures in large system size limit, the dynamics of one-body distribution is investigated as an idealized model for the infinitely large coupled map system. Obtained numerical results indicate the correspondence between the characteristics of long transient behavior in finite size system and that of the attractor or the ruin of attractor in the idealized model.     

一个四翼混沌吸引子

在新的四维混沌系统中数值观察到四翼混沌吸引子，然而，通过进一步分析发现，该四翼吸引子并非真实的，实际上它是上、下两个共存的双翼混沌吸引子，他们各自有独立的混沌吸引域，由于其位置靠得太近和数值误差产生的一种假象.通过引入一个线性状态反馈控制项，系统的一些相似性被破坏，受控系统能产生穿越上下吸引域界限的对角双翼混沌吸引子，进一步，随着动力学模态的演化，上下混沌吸引子与对角混沌吸引子融合成一个真正的四翼混沌吸引子.最后，通过比较该四翼混沌吸引子的系统、Lorenz系统、Chua氏电路等混沌信号的频谱发现，四翼混沌吸引子的系统信号具有极宽的频谱带宽，该特性在通讯加密等工程应用中具有重要价值. 关键词： 四维混沌系统 双翼吸引子 四翼吸引子 频谱分析     

Blowout bifurcation and spatial mode excitation in the bubbling transition to turbulence

The transition to turbulence (spatio-temporal chaos) in a wide class of spatially extended dynamical system is due to the loss of transversal stability of a chaotic attractor lying on a homogeneous manifold (in the Fourier phase space of the system), causing spatial mode excitation. Since the latter manifests as intermittent spikes this has been called a bubbling transition. We present numerical evidences that this transition occurs due to the so-called blowout bifurcation, whereby the attractor as a whole loses transversal stability and becomes a chaotic saddle. We used a nonlinear three-wave interacting model with spatial diffusion as an example of this transition.     

基于参数切换算法的混沌系统吸引子近似及其电路设计

基于参数切换算法和离散混沌系统, 设计一种新的混沌系统参数切换算法, 给出了两算法的原理. 采用混沌吸引子相图观测法, 研究了不同算法下统一混沌系统和Rössler混沌系统参数切换结果, 最后引入方波发生器, 设计了Rössler混沌系统参数切换电路. 结果表明, 采用参数切换算法可以近似出指定参数下的系统, 其吸引子与该参数下吸引子一致; 基于离散系统的参数切换结果更为复杂, 当离散序列分布均匀时, 只可近似得到指定参数下的系统; 相比传统切换混沌电路, 参数切换电路不用修改原有系统电路结构, 设计更为简单, 输出结果受方波频率影响, 通过加入合适频率的方波发生器, 数值仿真与电路仿真结果一致.     

Grazing-induced crises in hybrid dynamical systems

In hybrid dynamical systems including both continuous and discrete components, an interplay between a continuous trajectory and a discontinuity boundary can trigger a sudden qualitative change in the system dynamics. Grazing phenomena, which occur when a continuous trajectory hits a boundary tangentially, are well known as a representative of such phenomena. We demonstrate that a grazing phenomenon of a chaotic attractor can result in its sudden disappearance and initiate chaotic transients. The mechanism of this grazing-induced crisis is revealed in an illustrative example. Furthermore, we derive a formula to obtain the critical exponent of the power law on the mean duration of chaotic transients.     

Spike-burst synchronization in an ensemble of electrically coupled discrete model neurons

In this paper, we study the dynamics of a system of two model neurons interacting via the electrical synapse. Each neuron is described by a two-dimensional discontinuous map. A chaotic relaxational-type attractor, which corresponds to the spiking-bursting chaotic oscillations of neurons is shown to exist in a four-dimensional phase space. It is found that the dynamical mechanism of formation of chaotic bursts is based on a new phenomenon of generation of transient chaotic oscillations. It is demonstrated that transition from the chaotic-burst generation to the state of relative rest occurs with a certain time delay. A new characteristic which estimates the degree of synchronization of the spiking-bursting oscillations is introduced. The dependence of the synchronization degree on the strength of coupling of the ensemble elements is studied.     

A novel hyperchaotic system and its circuit implementation

A four-dimensional hyperchaotic system with five parameters is proposed. Its dynamical properties such as dissipativity, equilibrium points, Lyapunov exponent, Lyapunov dimension, bifurcation diagrams and Poincare maps are analyzed theoretically and numerically. Theoretical analyses and simulation tests indicate that the new system's dynamics behavior can be periodic attractor, chaotic attractor and hyperchaotic attractor as the parameter varies. Finally, the circuit of this new hyperchaotic system is designed and realized by Multisim software. The simulation results confirm that the chaotic system is different from the existing chaotic systems and is a novel hyperchaotic system. The system is recommendable for many engineering applications such as information processing, cryptology, secure communications, etc.