From multi-layered resonance tori to period-doubled ergodic tori

The Letter presents a number of new bifurcation structures that can be observed when a multi-dimensional period-doubling system is subjected to a periodic forcing. We show how multi-layered tori arise through transverse period-doubling bifurcations of the resonant saddle and node cycles, and how these multi-layered tori transform into period-doubled ergodic tori through sets of saddle-node bifurcations.     

Observations on period-doubling phenomena in a basic plasma experiment

Observations on period-doubling phenomena by exciting lower hybrid and ion cyclotron fluctuations in the presence of rf power in a plasma experiment are reported. The Feigenbaum number δ is calculated for the first two bifurcations and found to be 4.138. Nonlinear nature of the ion cyclotron oscillations gives rise to the interaction between modes that ultimately generate higher harmonics of the initial frequencies.     

Functional equations for circle homeomorphisms with golden ratio rotation number

The investigation of a scaling limit for mappings of the circle to itself with golden ratio rotation number leads to a pair of functional equations with at least a formal resemblance to the functional equation using the accumulation of period-doubling bifurcations. We discuss the general theory of these functional equations, assuming that solutions exist.Work supported in part by the National Science Foundation.     

Period-doubling cascades of canards from the extended Bonhoeffer-van der Pol oscillator

This Letter investigates the period-doubling cascades of canards, generated in the extended Bonhoeffer-van der Pol oscillator. Canards appear by Andronov-Hopf bifurcations (AHBs) and it is confirmed that these AHBs are always supercritical in our system. The cascades of period-doubling bifurcation are followed by mixed-mode oscillations. The detailed two-parameter bifurcation diagrams are derived, and it is clarified that the period-doubling bifurcations arise from a narrow parameter value range at which the original canard in the non-extended equation is observed.     

Synchronization of period-doubling oscillations in vascular coupled nephrons

The mechanisms by which the individual functional unit (nephron) of the kidney regulates the incoming blood flow give rise to a number of nonlinear dynamic phenomena, including period-doubling bifurcations and intra-nephron synchronization between two different oscillatory modes. Interaction between the nephrons produces complicated and time-dependent inter-nephron synchronization patterns. In order to understand the processes by which a pair of vascular coupled nephrons synchronize, the paper presents a detailed analysis of the bifurcations that occur at the threshold of synchronization. We show that, besides infinite cascades of saddle-node bifurcations, these transitions involve mutually connected cascades of torus and homoclinic bifurcations. To illustrate the broader range of occurrence of this bifurcation structure for coupled period-doubling systems, we show that a similar structure arises in a system of two coupled, non-identical Ro?ssler oscillators.     

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.     

The phase-modulated logistic map

We study the logistic mapping with the nonlinearity parameter varied through a delayed feedback mechanism. This history dependent modulation through a phaselike variable offers an enhanced possibility for stabilization of periodic dynamics. Study of the system as a function of nonlinearity and modulation parameters reveals new phenomena: In addition to period-doubling and tangent bifurcations, there can be bifurcations where the period increases by unity. These are extensions of crises that arise in nonlinear dynamical systems. Periodic orbits in this system can be systematized via the kneading theory, which in the present case extends the analysis of Metropolis, Stein, and Stein for unimodal maps.     

脉冲作用下Chen系统的非光滑分岔分析

研究了脉冲作用下Chen系统的复杂动力学行为. 对脉冲作用下的Chen系统进行了非光滑分岔分析. 该系统可经级联倍周期分岔到达混沌, 也可由周期解经鞍结分岔直接到达混沌. 最后通过Floquet理论揭示了该系统周期解的非光滑分岔机理.     

Period-doubling/symmetry-breaking mode interactions in iterated maps

We consider iterated maps with a reflectional symmetry. Possible bifurcations in such systems include period-doubling bifurcations (within the symmetric subspace) and symmetry-breaking bifurcations. By using a second parameter, these bifurcations can be made to coincide at a mode interaction. By reformulating the period-doubling bifurcation as a symmetry-breaking bifurcation, two bifurcation equations with Z₂×Z₂ symmetry are derived. A local analysis of solutions is then considered, including the derivation of conditions for a tertiary Hopf bifurcation. Applications to symmetrically coupled maps and to two coupled, vertically forced pendulums are described.     

Controlling bifurcations and chaos in discrete small-world networks

We propose an impulsive hybrid control method to control the period-doubling bifurcations and stabilize unstable periodic orbits embedded in a chaotic attractor of a small-world network. Simulation results show that the bifurcations can be delayed or completely eliminated. A periodic orbit of the system can be controlled to any desired periodic orbit by using this method.     

Parametric modulation of instabilities of a nonlinear discrete system

The effect of modulation on the first instability of the logistic map is determined. Similarities with the parametrically modulated anharmonic oscillator are discussed. We also discuss small-amplitude modulation of the period-doubling bifurcations and the structural similarity with bifurcations of Taylor vortex flow in finite length annuli.     

Shell structure and orbit bifurcations in finite fermion systems

We first give an overview of the shell-correction method which was developed by V.M. Strutinsky as a practicable and efficient approximation to the general self-consistent theory of finite fermion systems suggested by A.B. Migdal and collaborators. Then we present in more detail a semiclassical theory of shell effects, also developed by Strutinsky following original ideas of M.C. Gutzwiller. We emphasize, in particular, the influence of orbit bifurcations on shell structure. We first give a short overview of semiclassical trace formulae, which connect the shell oscillations of a quantum system with a sum over periodic orbits of the corresponding classical system, in what is usually called the “periodic orbit theory”. We then present a case study in which the gross features of a typical double-humped nuclear fission barrier, including the effects of mass asymmetry, can be obtained in terms of the shortest periodic orbits of a cavity model with realistic deformations relevant for nuclear fission. Next we investigate shell structures in a spheroidal cavity model which is integrable and allows for far-going analytical computation. We show, in particular, how period-doubling bifurcations are closely connected to the existence of the so-called “superdeformed” energy minimum which corresponds to the fission isomer of actinide nuclei. Finally, we present a general class of radial power-law potentials which approximate well the shape of a Woods-Saxon potential in the bound region, give analytical trace formulae for it and discuss various limits (including the harmonic oscillator and the spherical box potentials).     

BIFURCATIONS AND CHAOS OF AN IMMERSED CANTILEVER BEAM IN A FLUID AND CARRYING AN INTERMEDIATE MASS

The concern of this work is the local stability and period-doubling bifurcations of the response to a transverse harmonic excitation of a slender cantilever beam partially immersed in a fluid and carrying an intermediate lumped mass. The unimodal form of the non-linear dynamic model describing the beam-mass in-plane large-amplitude flexural vibration, which accounts for axial inertia, non-linear curvature and inextensibility condition, developed in Al-Qaisia et al. (2000Shock and Vibration7 , 179-194), is analyzed and studied for the resonance responses of the first three modes of vibration, using two-term harmonic balance method. Then a consistent second order stability analysis of the associated linearized variational equation is carried out using approximate methods to predict the zones of symmetry breaking leading to period-doubling bifurcation and chaos on the resonance response curves. The results of the present work are verified for selected physical system parameters by numerical simulations using methods of the qualitative theory, and good agreement was obtained between the analytical and numerical results. Also, analytical prediction of the period-doubling bifurcation and chaos boundaries obtained using a period-doubling bifurcation criterion proposed in Al-Qaisia and Hamdan (2001 Journal of Sound and Vibration244, 453-479) are compared with those of computer simulations. In addition, results of the effect of fluid density, fluid depth, mass ratio, mass position and damping on the period-doubling bifurcation diagrams are studies and presented.     

Period-doubling bifurcation and chaotic behaviour in non-equilibrium superconducting film

Based on the theory of a previous letter [2], the possibility of period-doubling bifurcations and chaotic behaviour appearing in superconducting film under high quasiparticle injection and applied periodic field is argued. The complicated behaviour of system and the corresponding region of parameter are given.     

Isochronous and period doubling bifurcations of periodic solutions of non-integrable Hamiltonian systems with reflexion symmetries

We analytically derive the possible types of isochronous and period doubling bifurcations undergone by periodic solutions of two degrees of freedom, non-integrable, Hamiltonian systems possessing reflexion and time-reversal symmetries. We find that one of the isochronous bifurcations numerically found in refs. [3] cannot exist. In the case of period-doubling we predict the existence of a type of bifurcation not found in refs. [2] and [3] but confirmed by further numerical investigation.     

Painleve analysis of the perturbed sine-Gordon equation

We are reporting on numerical investigations of a seven-variable model corresponding to a class of chemical reactions which exhibit, as a function of the control parameter, a sequence of periodic and chaotic states strikingly similar to that observed in bench experiments. This scenario involves period-doubling cascades, tangent bifurcations and intermittency, in good agreement with a dynamical evolution predicted by a multi-humped one-dimensional map. This strongly suggests an interpretation of the strange-attractor-like behavior observed along such paths, in terms of the chaotic behavior which occurs nearby homoclinic conditions.     

Synchronizing Moore and Spiegel

This paper presents a study of bifurcations and synchronization {in the sense of Pecora and Carroll [Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 821-824 (1990)]} in the Moore-Spiegel oscillator equations. Complicated patterns of period-doubling, saddle-node, and homoclinic bifurcations are found and analyzed. Synchronization is demonstrated by numerical experiment, periodic orbit expansion, and by using coordinate transformations. Synchronization via the resetting of a coordinate after a fixed interval is also successful in some cases. The Moore-Spiegel system is one of a general class of dynamical systems and synchronization is considered in this more general context. (c) 1997 American Institute of Physics.     

神经元电活动不同节律模式的几种变化过程

利用神经元Chay模型,对实验中观察到的三种放电节律模式序列进行数值模拟,并应用余维1极限环分岔分析研究了其产生机理.首先考虑的是周期性放电模式的变化过程;其次,具有不同表象的一种超临界和一种亚临界倍周期簇放电序列产生并导致混沌现象的出现,然后以不同的方式转迁到逆超临界倍周期峰放电序列;最后研究无混沌的加周期簇放电序列,得出加周期分岔仅是一种与倍周期分岔密切相关的分岔现象.     

不连续导电模式DC-DC变换器的倍周期分岔机理研究

根据一般迭代映射的倍周期分岔定理,从数学上论证了电压型不连续导电模式(DCM) Boost和Buck变换器中倍周期分岔现象产生条件,由此揭示了DC-DC变换器中倍周期分岔现象发生的机理,完善了该类变换器倍周期分岔分析的理论和方法. 关键词： 倍周期分岔 迭代映射 Lyapunov 指数 施瓦茨导数     

Bounded regions of chaotic behavior in the control parameter space of a driven non-linear resonator

We have investigated the behavior of a driven non-linear electrical resonator over a large region of the control parameter space, i.e. the amplitude and frequency of the drive voltage. In addition to features characteristic of a one-dimensional non-invertible iterated map there exist isolated regions of chaotic behavior bounded by a Feigenbaum series of period-doubling bifurcations.