Study of a dynamical system with a strange attractor and invariant tori

A simple three-dimensional time-reversible system of ODEs with quadratic nonlinearities is considered in a recent paper by Sprott (2014). The author finds in this system, that has no equilibria, the coexistence of a strange attractor and invariant tori. The goal of this letter is to justify theoretically the existence of infinite invariant tori and chaotic attractors. For this purpose we embed the original system in a one-parameter family of reversible systems. This allows to demonstrate the presence of a Hopf-zero bifurcation that implies the birth of an elliptic periodic orbit. Thus, the application of the KAM theory guarantees the existence of an extremely complex dynamics with periodic, quasiperiodic and chaotic motions. Our theoretical study is complemented with some numerical results. Several bifurcation diagrams make clear the rich dynamics organized around a so-called noose bifurcation where, among other scenarios, cascades of period-doubling bifurcations also originate chaotic attractors. Moreover, a cross section and other numerical simulations are also presented to illustrate the KAM dynamics exhibited by this system.     

On bifurcations inducing a strange attractor in the system of A. M. Oboukhov

The paper contains a numerical study of qualitative properties of motion in a dynamical system modeling a turbulent flow. It shows that after four bifurcations related to a growing active force there appears a strange attractor in the system and the motion becomes stochastic.     

Frequency locking by external force from a dynamical system with strange nonchaotic attractor

Usually, phase synchronization is studied in chaotic systems driven by either periodic force or chaotic force. In the present work, we consider frequency locking in chaotic Rössler oscillator by a special driving force from a dynamical system with a strange nonchaotic attractor. In this case, a transition from generalized marginal synchronization to frequency locking is observed. We investigate the bifurcation of the dynamical system and explain why generalized marginal synchronization can occur in this model.     

Analogy between the Lorenz strange attractor and a bistable stochastic oscillator

The relation between the aperiodic solution of the Lorenz model and that of a stochastic anharmonic oscillator is explored. The stochastic oscillator is constructed by replacing (t) in the Lorenz model by a stochastic variable(t) of specified statistics. The resulting system is of course not isomorphic to the Lorenz model, but does share with it a number of statistical properties. Thus, within the confines of these measures the two systems are physically very similar.     

Bifurcations and observation of strange attractor in He-Ne lasers

We report the experimental observation of deterministic chaos in an He-Ne laserat 0.6328μm by varying the discharge current.Strange attractor of laser system in the recon-structed phase-space picture has been obtained.The mechanism of the phenomena was dis-cussed.     

A two-dimensional mapping with a strange attractor

Lorenz (1963) has investigated a system of three first-order differential equations, whose solutions tend toward a strange attractor. We show that the same properties can be observed in a simple mapping of the plane defined by:x _i+1=y _i +1–ax _i ² ,y _i+1=bx _i . Numerical experiments are carried out fora=1.4,b=0.3. Depending on the initial point (x ₀,y ₀), the sequence of points obtained by iteration of the mapping either diverges to infinity or tends to a strange attractor, which appears to be the product of a one-dimensional manifold by a Cantor set.     

Loss of stability and disappearance of two-dimensional invariant tori in a dissipative dynamical system

Numerical evidence is reported on the loss of differentiability of the flow on invariant tori near their disappearance in a dissipative dynamical system.     

Conversion of a chaotic attractor into a strange nonchaotic attractor in an one dimensional map and BVP oscillator

In this paper we investigate numerically the possibility of conversion of a chaotic attractor into a nonchaotic but strange attractor in both a discrete system (an one dimensional map) and in a continuous dynamical system — Bonhoeffer—van der Pol oscillator. In these systems we show suppression of chaotic property, namely, the sensitive dependence on initial states, by adding appropriate i) chaotic signal and ii) Gaussian white noise. The controlled orbit is found to be strange but nonchaotic with largest Lyapunov exponent negative and noninteger correlation dimension. Return map and power spectrum are also used to characterize the strange nonchaotic attractor.     

Renormalization group analysis of the global properties of a strange attractor

This paper considers the circle map at the special point: the one at which there is a trajectory with a golden mean winding number and at which the map just fails to be invertable at one point on the circle. The invariant density of this trajectory has fractal properties. Previous work has suggested that the global behavior of this fractal can be effectively analyzed using a kind of partition function formalism to generate anf versus curve. In this paper the partition function is obtained by using a renormalization group approach.     

Generation of a novel spherical chaotic attractor from a new three-dimensional system

A new three-dimensional （3D） system is constructed and a novel spherical chaotic attractor is generated from the system. Basic dynamical behaviors of the chaotic system are investigated respectively. Novel spherical chaotic attractors can be generated from the system within a wide range of parameter values. The shapes of spherical chaotic attractors can be impacted by the variation of parameters. Finally, a simpler 3D system and a more complex 3D system with the same capability of generating spherical chaotic attractors are put forward respectively.     

Correlation functions of a time-continuous dissipative system with a strange attractor

We determine the exact decay of time correlation functions of a continuous-time chaotic system. In contrast to discrete-time chaotic systems where these correlations decay as a rule exponentially fast we find in our continuous-time system long-time tails well known from many-particle systems.     

Chaotic attractor transforming control of hybrid Lorenz-Chen system

Based on passive theory, this paper studies a hybrid chaotic dynamical system from the mathematics perspective to implement the control of system stabilization. According to the Jacobian matrix of the nonlinear system, the stabilization control region is gotten. The controller is designed to stabilize fast the minimum phase Lorenz-Chen chaotic system after equivalently transforming from chaotic system to passive system. The simulation results show that the system not only can be controlled at the different equilibria, but also can be transformed between the different chaotic attractors.     

Wada basins of strange nonchaotic attractors in a quasiperiodically forced system

Whether Wada basins of strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) can exist has been an open problem. Here we verify the existence of Wada basin for SNAs in a quasiperiodically forced Duffing map. We show that the SNAs? basins are full Wada for a set of parameters of positive measure. We identify two types of SNAs? Wada basins by the basin cell method. It suggests that SNAs cannot be predicted reliably for the specific initial conditions.     

A strange attractor of the Smale-Williams type in the chaotic dynamics of a physical system

A nonautonomous nonlinear system is constructed and implemented as an experimental device. As represented by a 4D stroboscopic Poincaré map, the system exhibits a Smale-Williams-type strange attractor. The system consists of two coupled van der Pol oscillators whose frequencies differ by a factor of two. The corresponding Hopf bifurcation parameters slowly vary as periodic functions of time in antiphase with one another; i.e., excitation is alternately transferred between the oscillators. The mechanisms underlying the system’s chaotic dynamics and onset of chaos are qualitatively explained. A governing system of differential equations is formulated. The existence of a chaotic attractor is confirmed by numerical results. Hyperbolicity is verified numerically by performing a statistical analysis of the distribution of the angle between the stable and unstable subspaces of manifolds of the chaotic invariant set. Experimental results are in qualitative agreement with numerical predictions.     

Trace maps as 3D reversible dynamical systems with an invariant

One link between the theory of quasicrystals and the theory of nonlinear dynamics is provided by the study of so-called trace maps. A subclass of them are mappings on a one-parameter family of 2D surfaces that foliate ³ (and also ³). They are derived from transfer matrix approaches to properties of 1D quasicrystals. In this article, we consider various dynamical properties of trace maps. We first discuss the Fibonacci trace map and give new results concerning boundedness of orbits on certain subfamilies of its invariant 2D surfaces. We highlight a particular surface where the motion is integrable and semiconjugate to an Anosov system (i.e., the mapping acts as a pseudo-Anosov map). We identify properties of symmetry and reversibility (time-reversal symmetry) in the Fibonacci trace map dynamics and discuss the consequences for the structure of periodic orbits. We show that a conservative period-boubling sequence can be identified when moving through the one-parameter family of 2D surfaces. By using generator trace maps, in terms of which all trace maps obtained from invertible two-letter substitution rules can be expressed, we show that many features of the Fibonacci trace map hold in general. The role of the Fricke character , its symmetry group, and reversibility for the Nielsen trace maps are described algebraically. Finally, we outline possible higher-dimensional generalizations.     

The invariant density of a chaotic dynamical system with small noise

We consider a chaotic dynamical system perturbed by noise and calculate an approximate invariant density when the noise level is small. Because of the special structure of the dynamical system, the effective support of the invariant density is much smaller than the noiseless attractor. This behavior is captured by the asymptotic form of the invariant density, which is given explicitly.