Analysis of nonlinear autonomous systems has been a popular field of study in recent decades. As an interesting nonlinear behavior, chaotic dynamics has been intensively investigated since Lorenz discovered the first physical evidence of chaos in his famous equations. Although many chaotic systems have been ever reported in the literature, a systematic and qualitative approach for chaos generat...

In order to achieve chaotic signal processing, a dedicated chaos processor is required. The chaos processor is composed of two parts: chaos signal generation and chaos signal retrieval (Fig. 1). Chaos signal generation is used to generate chaos signal, while chaos signal retrieval is used to retrieve initial state of received chaos signal. Since chaos signal is analog in nature, with convention...

This paper proposes a simple design procedure of chaos generators consisting of two capacitors, some resistors, one linear voltagecontrolled current source (VCCS), and one piecewise-linear hysteresis VCCS. The design procedure is based on nodal analysis and can guarantee the chaos generation. The resulting circuits have suitable shapes to implement on-chip and an operational transconductance am...

Spiral chaos appears in the two-dimensional Aliev-Panfilov model. The generation mechanism of the spiral chaos is related to the breathing instability of pulse trains. The spiral chaos can be eliminated by applying periodic force uniformly. The elimination of the spiral chaos is most effective when the frequency of the periodic force is close to that of the breathing motion.

Chaos has revolutionized the field of nonlinear science and stimulated foundational studies from neural networks, extreme event statistics, to physics of electron transport. Recent studies in cavity optomechanics provide a new platform to uncover quintessential architectures of chaos generation and the underlying physics. Here, we report the generation of dynamical chaos in silicon-based monoli...

Results of recent theoretical investigations highlighted that the use of chaos in DS-CDMA systems may lead to non-negligible improvements in communication quality for several scenarios. We here briefly review the main steps in this derivation and report the corresponding theoretical prediction. In particular we show that the use of the so-called statistical approach to the study of a chaotic dy...

This paper addresses the question of why nurses should understand chaos theory. A critique of the literature is used to demonstrate how chaos theory has been utilised in a number of disciplines, including nursing. Possible applications of chaos theory in nursing are proposed in order to demonstrate where it might assist nurses, in particular researchers, educators and policy makers. The appropr...

Chaos based communications have drawn increasing attention over the past years. Chaotic signals are derived from non-linear dynamic systems. They are aperiodic, broadband and deterministic signals that appear random in the time domain. Because of these properties, chaotic signals have been proposed to generate spreading sequences for wide-band secure communication recently. Like conventional DS...