Equilibrium-torus bifurcation in nonsmooth systems

Considering a set of two coupled nonautonomous differential equations with discontinuous right-hand sides describing the behavior of a DC/DC power converter, we discuss a border-collision bifurcation that can lead to the birth of a two-dimensional invariant torus from a stable node equilibrium point. We obtain the chart of dynamic modes and show that there is a region of parameter space in which the system has a single stable node equilibrium point. Under variation of the parameters, this equilibrium may disappear as it collides with a discontinuity boundary between two smooth regions in the phase space. The disappearance of the equilibrium point is accompanied by the soft appearance of an unstable focus period-1 orbit surrounded by a resonant or ergodic torus.Detailed numerical calculations are supported by a theoretical investigation of the normal form map that represents the piecewise linear approximation to our system in the neighbourhood of the border. We determine the functional relationships between the parameters of the normal form map and the actual system and illustrate how the normal form theory can predict the bifurcation behaviour along the border-collision equilibrium-torus bifurcation curve.     

Coexisting tori and torus bubbling in non-smooth systems

Pulse modulated power electronic converters represent an important class of piecewise-smooth dynamical systems with a broad range of applications in modern power supply systems. The paper presents a detailed investigation of a number of unusual bifurcation phenomena that can occur in power converters with multilevel control. In the first example a closed invariant curve arises in a border-collision bifurcation as a period-6 saddle cycle collides with a stable fixed point of focus type and transforms it into an unstable focus point. The second example involves the formation of a structure of coexisting tori through the interplay between border-collision and global bifurcations. We examine the behavior of the system in the presence of two coexisting stable resonance tori and finally show how an existing torus can develop heteroclinic bubbles that connect the points of a stable resonance cycle with an external pair of saddle and focus cycles. The appearance of these structures is explained in terms of a sequence torus-birth bifurcations with pairs of stable and unstable tori folding one over the other.     

Border collision route to quasiperiodicity: Numerical investigation and experimental confirmation

Numerical studies of higher-dimensional piecewise-smooth systems have recently shown how a torus can arise from a periodic cycle through a special type of border-collision bifurcation. The present article investigates this new route to quasiperiodicity in the two-dimensional piecewise-linear normal form map. We have obtained the chart of the dynamical modes for this map and showed that border-collision bifurcations can lead to the birth of a stable closed invariant curve associated with quasiperiodic or periodic dynamics. In the parameter regions leading to the existence of an invariant closed curve, there may be transitions between an ergodic torus and a resonance torus, but the mechanism of creation for the resonance tongues is distinctly different from that observed in smooth maps. The transition from a stable focus point to a resonance torus may lead directly to a new focus of higher periodicity, e.g., a period-5 focus. This article also contains a discussion of torus destruction via a homoclinic bifurcation in the piecewise-linear normal map. Using a dc-dc converter with two-level control as an example, we report the first experimental verification of the direct transition to quasiperiodicity through a border-collision bifurcation.     

State-to-State Transitions in a Hindmarsh-Rose Neuron System

We investigate the dynamical response of the neuron system to a feeble external signal by using the Hindmarsh-Rose model, when the system is tuned below the first bifurcation point, which corresponds to the period-1 bursting state, and an external signal with a fixed period of about 170s is introduced to the system. It is found that to respond to the outside signal, the system changes from the period-1 state to a period-2 one with variation of the signal amplitude, indicating the occurrence of state-to-state transition （SST）. Moreover, when a signal with different fixed periods is introduced, we can also find a similar transition between other states. Furthermore, the effect of the frequency of the signal on the transition is also discussed. These results may imply that SST plays a constructive role in information processing in neuron systems.     

Novel routes to chaos through torus breakdown in non-invertible maps

The paper describes a number of new scenarios for the transition to chaos through the formation and destruction of multilayered tori in non-invertible maps. By means of detailed, numerically calculated phase portraits we first describe how three- and five-layered tori arise through period-doubling and/or pitchfork bifurcations of the saddle cycle on an ordinary resonance torus. We then describe several different mechanisms for the destruction of five-layered tori in a system of two linearly coupled logistic maps. One of these scenarios involves the destruction of the two intermediate layers of the five-layered torus through the transformation of two unstable node cycles into unstable focus cycles, followed by a saddle-node bifurcation that destroys the middle layer and a pair of simultaneous homoclinic bifurcations that produce two invariant closed curves with quasiperiodic dynamics along the sides of the chaotic set. Other scenarios involve different combinations of local and global bifurcations, including bifurcations that lead to various forms of homoclinic and heteroclinic tangles. We finally demonstrate that essentially the same scenarios can be observed both for a system of nonlinearly coupled logistic maps and for a couple of two-dimensional non-invertible maps that have previously been used to study the properties of invariant sets.     

圆内开缝圆自然对流的Ruelle-Takens混沌道路

使用热格子Boltzmann方法针对圆内开缝圆自然对流的流动与换热进行数值模拟,通过相空间、功率谱等进行非线性动力学特性分析,研究其流动与换热的稳定性.结果表明：随着瑞利数Ra的增加,流场的相图从开始稳定的平衡点经历Hopf分岔后转变为极限环,表明流场进入一个倍周期性振荡状态;随着瑞利数进一步增加,稳定的极限环分岔为二维环面,系统相空间结构复杂化;当瑞利数Ra大于某一临界值时,二维环面分岔突变进入混沌状态,系统在相空间中出现非常复杂的轨线结构.总体上,通过系统不同瑞利数所对应的非线性动力学特性的表现形式,表明系统经过Ruelle-Takens道路到达混沌,展现出自然对流从稳定的流动和换热发展到非线性运动特征的混沌历程.     

Torus destruction via global bifurcations in a piecewise-smooth, continuous map with square-root nonlinearity

It has been shown recently that torus formation in piecewise-smooth maps can occur through a special type of border collision bifurcation in which a pair of complex conjugate Floquet multipliers “jump” from the inside to the outside of the unit circle. It has also been shown that a large class of impacting mechanical systems yield piecewise-smooth maps with square-root singularity. In this Letter we investigate the dynamics of a two-dimensional piecewise-smooth map with square-root type nonlinearity, and describe two new routes to chaos through the destruction of two-frequency torus. In the first scenario, we identify the transition to chaos through the destruction of a loop torus via homoclinic bifurcation. In the other scenario, a change of structure in the torus occurs via heteroclinic saddle connections. Further parameter changes lead to a homoclinic bifurcation resulting in the creation of a chaotic attractor. However, this scenario is much more complex, with the appearance of a sequence of heteroclinic and homoclinic bifurcations.     

A special type of attractor and transitions in a delayed system

We discuss strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) in addition to chaotic and regular attractors in a quasiperiodically driven system with time delays. A route and the associated mechanism are described for a special type of attractor called strange-nonchaotic-attractor-like (SNA-like) through T² torus bifurcation. The type of attractor can be observed in large parameter domains and it is easily mistaken for a true SNA judging merely from the phase portrait, power spectrum and the largest Lyapunov exponent. SNA-like attractor is not strange and has no phase sensitivity. Conditions for Neimark-Sacker bifurcation are obtained by theoretical analysis for the unforced system. Complicated and interesting dynamical transitions are investigated among the different tongues.     

Birth of bilayered torus and torus breakdown in a piecewise-smooth dynamical system

Border-collision bifurcations arise when the periodic trajectory of a piecewise-smooth system under variation of a parameter crosses into a region with different dynamics. Considering a three-dimensional map describing the behavior of a DC/DC power converter, the Letter discusses a new type of border-collision bifurcation that leads to the birth of a “bilayered torus”. This torus consists of the union of two saddle cycles, their unstable manifolds, and a stable focus cycle. When changing the parameters, the bilayered torus transforms through a border-collision bifurcation into a resonance torus containing the stable cycle and a saddle. The Letter also presents scenarios for torus destruction through homoclinic and heteroclinic tangencies.     

Excitonic-vibronic coupled dimers: A dynamic approach

The dynamical properties of exciton transfer coupled to polarization vibrations in a two site system are investigated in detail. A fixed point analysis of the full system of Bloch-oscillator equations representing the coupled excitonic-vibronic flow is performed. For overcritical polarization a bifurcation converting the stable bonding ground state to a hyperbolic unstable state which is basic to the dynamical properties of the model is obtained. The phase space of the system is generally of a mixed type: Above bifurcation chaos develops starting from the region of the hyperbolic state and spreading with increasing energy over the Bloch sphere leaving only islands of regular dynamics. The behaviour of the polarization oscillator accordingly changes from regular to chaotic.     

Local enrichment and its nonlocal consequences for victim-exploiter metapopulations

The stabilizing effects of local enrichment are revisited. Diffusively coupled host-parasitoid and predator-prey metapopulations are shown to admit a stable fixed point, limit cycle or stable torus with a rich bifurcation structure. A linear toy model that yields many of the basic qualitative features of this system is presented. The further nonlinear complications are analyzed in the framework of the marginally stable Lotka-Volterra model, and the continuous time analog of the unstable, host-parasitoid Nicholson-Bailey model. The dependence of the results on the migration rate and level of spatial variations is examined, and the possibility of “nonlocal” effect of enrichment, where local enrichment induces stable oscillations at a distance, is studied. A simple method for basic estimation of the relative importance of this effect in experimental systems is presented and exemplified.     

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.     

The analysis of a novel 3-D autonomous system and circuit implementation

This Letter presents a new three-dimensional autonomous system with four quadratic terms. The system with five equilibrium points has complex chaotic dynamics behaviors. It can generate many different single chaotic attractors and double coexisting chaotic attractors over a large range of parameters. We observe that these chaotic attractors were rarely reported in previous work. The complex dynamical behaviors of the system are further investigated by means of phase portraits, Lyapunov exponents spectrum, Lyapunov dimension, dissipativeness of system, bifurcation diagram and Poincaré map. The physical circuit experimental results of the chaotic attractors show agreement with numerical simulations. More importantly, the analysis of frequency spectrum shows that the novel system has a broad frequency bandwidth, which is very desirable for engineering applications such as secure communications.     

Multilayered tori in a system of two coupled logistic maps

The Letter describes different mechanisms for the formation and destruction of tori that are formed as layered structures of several sets of interlacing manifolds, each with their associated stable and unstable resonance modes. We first illustrate how a three layered torus can arise in a system of two coupled logistic maps through period-doubling or pitchfork bifurcations of the saddle cycle on an ordinary resonance torus. We hereafter present two different scenarios by which a multilayered torus can be destructed. One scenario involves a cascade of period-doubling bifurcations of both the stable and the saddle cycles, and the second scenario describes a transition in which homoclinic bifurcations destroy first the two outer layers and thereafter also the inner layer of a three-layered torus. It is suggested that the formation of multilayered tori is a generic phenomenon in non-invertible maps.     

一类可变禁区的不连续系统的加周期分岔

研究了一类可变禁区不连续系统的加周期分岔行为, 发现由可变禁区导致不同类型的加周期分岔. 研究表明, 系统的迭代轨道和禁区的上下两个边界均可发生边界碰撞, 从而产生加周期分岔. 基于边界碰撞分岔理论, 定义基本的迭代单元, 解析推导出了相应的分岔曲线, 在全参数空间中给出了不同加周期所出现的范围. 与数值模拟结果比较, 理论分析结果与数值结果高度一致.     

New Canards Bursting and Canards Periodic-Chaotic Sequence

A trajectory following the repelling branch of an equilibrium or a periodic orbit is called a canards solution. Using a continuation method, we find a new type of canards bursting which manifests itseff in an alternation between the oscillation phase following attracting the limit cycle branch and resting phase following a repelling fixed point branch in a reduced leech neuron model Via periodic-chaotic alternating of infinite times, the number of windings within a canards bursting can approach infinity at a Gavrilov-Shilnikov homoclinic tangency bifurcation of a simple saddle limit cycle.     

A novel three-dimensional autonomous chaotic system generating two, three and four-scroll attractors

In this Letter a novel three-dimensional autonomous chaotic system is proposed. Of particular interest is that this novel system can generate two, three and four-scroll chaotic attractors with variation of a single parameter. By applying either analytical or numerical methods, basic properties of the system, such as dynamical behaviors (time history and phase diagrams), Poincaré mapping, bifurcation diagram and Lyapunov exponents are investigated to observe chaotic motions. The obtained results clearly show that this is a new chaotic system which deserves further detailed investigation.     

电压型双频率控制开关变换器的动力学建模与多周期行为分析

在断续导电模式下, 建立了电压型双频率控制开关变换器的动力学模型, 并推导了相应的特征值方程. 根据动力学模型, 采用分岔图研究了电路参数变化时变换器存在的边界碰撞分岔行为和周期2, 周期3,周期4等多周期行为, 结果表明: 变换器经历了周期1态、多周期态、周期1态的分岔路由; 周期态的转变均是由边界碰撞分岔引起的. 根据特征值方程, 采用Lyapunov指数研究了变换器的稳定性, 结果表明: 随着电路参数的变化, Lyapunov指数始终小于零, 变换器一直工作于稳定的周期态, 验证了电压型双频率控制开关变换器的周期3行为并不意味着变换器会必然发生混沌. 通过电路仿真, 分析了负载变化时变换器的时域波形、相轨图和频谱图, 验证了动力学模型的可行性和理论分析的正确性. 实验结果验证了文中的仿真结果. 关键词： 开关变换器 双频率控制 边界碰撞分岔 多周期行为     

Critical curves and coexisting attractors in a quasiperiodically forced delayed system

We study three critical curves in a quasiperiodically driven system with time delays, where occurrence of symmetry-breaking and symmetry-recovering phenomena can be observed. Typical dynamical tongues involving strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) can be distinguished. A striking phenomenon that can be discovered is multistability and coexisting attractors in some tongues surrounding by critical curves. The blowout bifurcation accompanying with on-off intermittency can also be observed. We show that collision of attractors at a symmetric invariant subspace can lead to the appearance of symmetry-breaking.     

A bifurcation theory for a class of discrete time Markovian stochastic systems

We present a bifurcation theory of smooth stochastic dynamical systems that are governed by everywhere positive transition densities. The local dependence structure of the unique strictly stationary evolution of such a system can be expressed by the ratio of joint and marginal probability densities; this ‘dependence ratio’ is a geometric invariant of the system. By introducing an equivalence relation defined on these dependence ratios, we arrive at a bifurcation theory for which in the compact case, the set of stable, i.e. non-bifurcating, systems is open and dense. The theory is illustrated with some simple examples.