Cuspy triaxial potentials admit a large number of chaotic orbits, which moreover exhibit extreme “stickiness” that makes the process of chaotic mixing surprisingly inefficient. Environmental effects, modeled as noise and/or periodic driving, help accelerate phase space transport but probably not as much as in simpler potentials. This could mean that cuspy triaxial ellipticals cannot exist as ti...

Experiments and theory characterize the novel chaotic neoclassical transport scaling as νcB in contrast to traditional collisional neoclassical transport scaling as ν 1/2 c B−1/2. This chaotic transport occurs when local trapping separatrices have θ-variations or temporal fluctuations. Experiments observe bulk particle transport, damping of Langmuir waves and diocotron waves, and nonlinear wave...

We study the distribution function of ratio of components of eigenfunctions in chaotic and disordered systems. A universal behavior of the form of Lorentzian distribution is found for the distribution function in several models: analytically for the Random Matrix Model and numerically for the Band Random Matrix Model, the Lipkin model, a chaotic quantum billiard and a 1D tight binding model. PA...

Recent work has considered the possibility of utilizing symbolic representations of controlled chaotic orbits for communicating with chaotically behaving signal generators. The success of this type of nonlinear digital communication scheme relies on partitioning the phase space properly so that a good symbolic dynamics can be defined. A central problem is then how to encode an arbitrary message...

In lens design, damped least-squares methods are typically used to find the nearest local minimum to a starting configuration in the merit function landscape. In this paper, we explore the use of such a method for a purpose that goes beyond local optimization. The merit function barrier, which separates an unsatisfactory solution from a neighboring one that is better, can be overcome by using l...

This paper presents a compact and effective chaosbased keyed hash function implemented by a cross-coupled topology of chaotic maps, which employs absolute-value of sinusoidal nonlinearity, and offers robust chaotic regions over broad parameter spaces with high degree of randomness through chaoticity measurements using the Lyapunov exponent. Hash function operations involve an initial stage when...

In addition to exhibiting a rich variety of bifurcation and chaos via tuning parameters, a chaotic system introduced by Sprott can be modeled and realized with a fixed main system block and many different changeable nonlinear function blocks such as piecewise-linear function, cubic function and other trigonometric functions. This system is very suitable for implementing a programmable chaos gen...

In control engineering, it is well known that many physical process exhibit a chaotic component. In point of fact, it is also assumed that conventional modeling procedures disregard it, as stochastic noise, beside nonlinear universal approximators (like neural networks, fuzzy rule-based or genetic programming-based models,) can capture the chaotic nature of the process. In this paper we will sh...

A function projective synchronization is defined to synchronize two different systems up to a scaling function matrix f with different initial values. The function projective synchronization is more general than the complete synchronization, the generalized projective synchronization and the modified projective synchronization. The corresponding framework of synchronization is set up and used t...