Application of Greene's method and the MacKay residue criterion to the double pendulum

The double pendulum is a non-integrable Hamiltonian system which exhibits the scenario of transition to global chaos via the decay of a golden mean KAM torus. We apply Greene's method and the MacKay residue criterion and compute the threshold to global chaos. We find that MacKay's method is superior to Greene's since it requires much less numerical work but nevertheless gives accurate results.     

He's variational iteration method applied to the solution of the prey and predator problem with variable coefficients

In this Letter, a mathematical model of the problem of prey and predator is presented and He's variational iteration method is employed to compute an approximation to the solution of the system of nonlinear differential equations governing the problem. The results are compared with the results obtained by Adomian decomposition method and homotopy perturbation method. Comparison of the methods show that He's variational iteration method is a powerful method for obtaining approximate solutions to nonlinear equations and their systems.     

Stability of two-ion crystals in the Paul trap: A comparison of exact and pseudopotential calculations

The stability of two-ion crystals in a Paul trap with a dc component in the quadrupole potential has been studied with the use of the monodromy matrix. The pseudopotential model predicts crystals with the ions at rest either along the trap axis or in the radial plane. The solutions of the full equations of motion disagree with the predictions of the pseudopotential model when the radial and axial secular frequencies are nearly degenerate: the crystal is either unstable (as first noted by Emmertet al.) or exists in a previously unanticipated configuration in which the ions lie at an angle to the trap axes. A bifurcation diagram near the edge of the crystalline stability range does not support a frequency-doubling route to chaos.Dedicated to H. Walther on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

A numerical study of the applicability of Melnikov's method

Melnikov's method can be used to predict the appearance of the homoclinic and also the heteroclinic tangency. The applicability of the method is studied by using numerically calculated invariant manifolds of the Poincaré map of a soft spring oscillator.     

Dynamics of coupled Josephson junctions under the influence of applied fields

We investigate the effect of the phase difference of applied fields on the dynamics of mutually coupled Josephson junctions. A phase difference between the applied fields desynchronizes the system. It is found that though the amplitudes of the output voltage values are uncorrelated, a phase correlation is found to exist for small values of applied phase difference. The dynamics of the system is found to change from chaotic to periodic for certain values of phase difference. We report that by keeping the value of phase difference as π, the system continues to be in periodic motion for a wide range of values of system parameters. This result may find applications in devices like voltage standards, detectors, SQUIDS, etc., where chaos is least desired.     

Downside Risk analysis applied to the Hedge Funds universe

Hedge Funds are considered as one of the portfolio management sectors which shows a fastest growing for the past decade. An optimal Hedge Fund management requires an appropriate risk metrics. The classic CAPM theory and its Ratio Sharpe fail to capture some crucial aspects due to the strong non-Gaussian character of Hedge Funds statistics. A possible way out to this problem while keeping the CAPM simplicity is the so-called Downside Risk analysis. One important benefit lies in distinguishing between good and bad returns, that is: returns greater or lower than investor's goal. We revisit most popular Downside Risk indicators and provide new analytical results on them. We compute these measures by taking the Credit Suisse/Tremont Investable Hedge Fund Index Data and with the Gaussian case as a benchmark. In this way, an unusual transversal lecture of the existing Downside Risk measures is provided.     

Multiresolution information measures applied to speech recognition

Considerable advances in automatic speech recognition have been made in the last decades, thanks specially to the use of hidden Markov models. In the field of speech signal analysis, different techniques have been developed. However, deterioration in the performance of the speech recognizers has been observed when they are trained with clean signal and tested with noisy signals. This is still an open problem in this field. Continuous multiresolution entropy has been shown to be robust to additive noise in applications to different physiological signals. In previous works we have included Shannon and Tsallis entropies, and their corresponding divergences, in different speech analysis and recognition systems. In this paper we present an extension of the continuous multiresolution entropy to different divergences and we propose them as new dimensions for the pre-processing stage of a speech recognition system. This approach takes into account information about changes in the dynamics of speech signal at different scales. The methods proposed here are tested with speech signals corrupted with babble and white noise. Their performance is compared with classical mel cepstral parametrization. The results suggest that these continuous multiresolution entropy related measures provide valuable information to the speech recognition system and that they could be considered to be included as an extra component in the pre-processing stage.     

On the synchronization of a hyperchaotic system based on adaptive method

This Letter researches the adaptive synchronization of a hyperchaotic system. Based on Lyapunov method, a general adaptive method via a driving vector and an original adaptive method via a single driving variable are presented to achieve the chaos synchronization. Especially, the latter makes the structure of adaptive controller simple and has more practical value compared with the former. Some typical numerical examples are included to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method proposed.     

Two-Mode Wave Solutions to the Degasperis--Procesi Equation

By introducing a new type of solutions, called the multiple-mode wave solutions which can be expressed in nonlinear superposition of single-mode waves with different speeds, we investigate the two-mode wave solutions in Degasperis-Procesi equation and two cases are derived. The explicit expressions for the two-mode waves as well as the existence conditions are presented. It is shown that the two-mode waves may be the nonlinear combinations of many types of single-mode waves, such as periodic waves, solJtons, compactons, etc., and more complicated multiple-mode waves can be obtained if higher order or more single-mode waves are taken into consideration. It is pointed out that the two-mode wave solutions can be employed to display the typical mechanism of the interactions between different single-mode waves.     

A numerical test of the collective coordinate method

The purpose of this Letter is to compare the dynamics of the kink interacting with the imperfection which follows from the collective coordinate method with the numerical results obtained on the ground of the field theoretical model. We showed that for weekly interacting kinks the collective coordinate method works similarly well for low and extremely large speeds.     

Dynamics of the Langevin model subjected to colored noise: Functional-integral method

We have discussed the dynamics of Langevin model subjected to colored noise, by using the functional-integral method (FIM) combined with equations of motion for mean and variance of the state variable. Two sets of colored noise have been investigated: (a) one additive and one multiplicative colored noise, and (b) one additive and two multiplicative colored noise. The case (b) is examined with relevance to a recent controversy on the stationary subthreshold voltage distribution of an integrate-and-fire model including stochastic excitatory and inhibitory synapses and a noisy input. We have studied the stationary probability distribution and dynamical responses to time-dependent (pulse and sinusoidal) inputs of the linear Langevin model. Model calculations have shown that results of the FIM are in good agreement with those of direct simulations (DSs). A comparison is made among various approximate analytic solutions such as the universal colored noise approximation (UCNA). It has been pointed out that dynamical responses to pulse and sinusoidal inputs calculated by the UCNA are rather different from those of DS and the FIM, although they yield the same stationary distribution.     

Quasicontinuum approximation and iterative method for envelope solitons in anharmonic chains

For solitary waves on a monoatomic chain with nearest neighbor interactions the continuum approximation has a limited validity range and exhibits certein mathematical problems. For pulse solitons these problems are overcome by the Quasicontinuum Approach (QCA), and the validity range is considerably extended. We generalize the QCA to oscillatory excitations and derive analytic expressions for bright and dark envelope solitons, limiting ourselves to a polynomial interaction potential with harmonic, cubic and quartic terms. Moreover we describe and apply a numerical iteration procedure in Fourier space in order to take into account discreteness effects in a systematic way. This procedure yields envelope solitons with a width in the order of the lattice constant. In the case of zero velocity these solutions can be compared with intrinsic localized modes derived by other authors. The stability and accuracy of all our solutions are tested by numerical simulations.     

Algebraic method applied to the pairing interaction

The algebraic approach to the theory of collective motion is applied to the pairing interaction with two or three non-degenerate levels of arbitrary degeneracy each. A closed set of non-linear algebraic equations for observables referring to the lowest-lying levels of even nuclei is derived from the relevant quasispin algebra and from the equations of motion. Number conservation and blocking can both be taken into account. The solutions agree remarkably well with exact solutions even for small systems.     

Measuring the complex moduli of materials by using the double pendulum system

A interesting double pendulum system permits evaluating complex moduli (Young and shear) without independent excitation and transducers. This instrument was described at France in 1934 by Le Rolland and Sorin in Etude d'une méthode utilisant le couplage entre deux systèmes oscillants pour la détermination de la résistance mécanique des constructions et la mesure des modules d'élasticité, scientific and technical publications of the Air Force Ministry, no. 47, 1934. This device is revisited and improved in order to make it applicable to measurements of viscoelastic materials.     

用扭摆验证转动惯量平行轴定理的新方法

提出利用扭摆验证转动惯量平行轴定理的两种简单易行的新方法,并通过实验证明了该方法的可行性.     

Direct transition from a stable equilibrium to quasiperiodicity in non-smooth systems

The purpose of this Letter is to show how a border-collision bifurcation in a piecewise-smooth dynamical system can produce a direct transition from a stable equilibrium point to a two-dimensional invariant torus. Considering a system of nonautonomous differential equations describing the behavior of a power electronic DC/DC converter, we first determine the chart of dynamical modes and show that there is a region of parameter space in which the system has a single stable equilibrium point. Under variation of the parameters, this equilibrium may collide with a discontinuity boundary between two smooth regions in phase space. When this happens, one can observe a number of different bifurcation scenarios. One scenario is the continuous transformation of the stable equilibrium into a stable period-1 cycle. Another is the transformation of the stable equilibrium into an unstable period-1 cycle with complex conjugate multipliers, and the associated formation of a two-dimensional (ergodic or resonant) torus.     

Vibrational stabilization of the upright statically unstable position of a double pendulum

The phenomenon of stabilization by parametric excitation of an unstable, elastically restrained double inverted pendulum under its own weight is addressed. The solution is pursued by the Multiple Scale Method, as a perturbation of a critical Hamiltonian system, possessing a zero- and a real frequency. Several asymptotic expansions are carried out, which are able to capture the long-term behavior of the system, for generic (non-resonant) values of the excitation frequency, and some special (resonant) values of excitation-to-natural frequency ratio. It is shown that a proper ordering of the control parameters must be performed, and proper use of integer or fractional power expansions must be made, according to the resonance under study. In particular, a non-standard application of the Multiple Scale Method is illustrated for the 1:1 resonant case, requiring fractional powers and accounting for the ‘arbitrary constants’, generally omitted in regular cases. A comprehensive scenario of the stabilization regions is given in which lower-bound as well as upper-bound curves are evaluated, thus integrating results that recently appeared in the literature.     

三线摆法测刚体的转动惯量所用近似方法对测量结果的影响

讨论了在推导转动惯量的测量公式时采用的近似方法对测量结果带来的影响,指出了减小其影响的途径.     

Control-oriented approaches to anticipating synchronization of chaotic deterministic ratchets

In virtue of techniques derived from nonlinear control system theory, we establish conditions under which one could obtain anticipating synchronization between two periodically driven deterministic ratchets that are able to exhibit directed transport with a finite velocity. Criteria are established in order to guarantee the anticipating synchronization property of such systems as well as characterize phase space dynamics of the ratchet transporting behaviors. These results allow one to predict the chaotic direct transport features of particles on a ratchet potential using a copy of the same system that performs as a slave, which are verified through numerical simulation.     

Secure communication based on a four-wing chaotic system subject to disturbance inputs

In this paper, a two-input two-output secure communication scheme based on a four-wing four-dimensional chaotic system with disturbance inputs is discussed. Based on parameter modulation theory and Lyapunov stability theory, synchronization and secure communication between transmitter and receiver are achieved and two message signals are recovered via a convenient robust high-order sliding mode adaptative controller. In addition, the gains of the receiver system can be adjusted continually, the unknown parameters can be identified precisely and the disturbance inputs can be suppressed simultaneously by the proposed adaptative controller. Synchronization under the effect of noise is also considered. Computer simulations are done to verify the proposed methods and the numerical results show that the obtained theoretic results are feasible and efficient.