[en] In this article, we consider a system of autonomous inductively coupled Van der Pol generators. For two coupled generators, we establish the presence of metastable chaos, a strange non-chaotic attractor, and several stable limiting cycles. Areas of parametric dependence of different modes of synchronization are obtained

[en] The relationship between some kinds of substitutions and admissible sequences is studied. Sufficient and necessary conditions for the admissibility of the sequences generated by non-constant length substitution and constant length substitution are investigated respectively

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[en] This paper investigates the equal combination synchronization of a class of chaotic systems. The chaotic systems are assumed that only the output state variable is available and the output may be discontinuous state variable. By constructing proper observers, some novel criteria for the equal combination synchronization are proposed. The Lorenz chaotic system is taken as an example to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach

[en] This letter restudies the Nosé-Hoover oscillator. Some new averagely conservative regions are found, each of which is filled with different sequences of nested tori with various knot types. Especially, the dynamical behaviors near the border of “chaotic region” and conservative regions are studied showing that there exist more complicated and thinner invariant tori around the boundaries of conservative regions bounded by tori. Our results suggest an infinite number of island chains in a “chaotic sea” for the Nosé-Hoover oscillator

[en] Anti-synchronization between different hyperchaotic systems is presented using Lorenz and Liu systems. When the parameters of two systems are known, one can use active synchronization. When the parameters are unknown or uncertain, the adaptive synchronization is applied. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed two schemes for anti-synchronization between different hyperchaotic systems

[en] We study the dynamics of Laplacian-type coupling induced by logistic family $f_{\mu }\left(x\right)=\mu x(1-x)$, where $\mu \in [0,4]$, on a periodic lattice, that is the dynamics of maps of the form $F(x,y)=((1-\epsilon )f_{\mu }\left(x\right)+\epsilon f_{\mu }\left(y\right),(1-\epsilon )f_{\mu }\left(y\right)+\epsilon f_{\mu }\left(x\right))$ where $\epsilon >0$ determines strength of coupling. Our main objective is to analyze the structure of attractors in such systems and especially detect invariant regions with nontrivial dynamics outside the diagonal. In analytical way, we detect some regions of parameters for which a horseshoe is present; and using simulations global attractors and invariant sets are depicted.

[en] Important concepts concerning tubes in dynamical systems are defined in details. In the cases of a homoclinic tube and a heteroclinically tubular cycle in autonomous systems, existence of tubular chaos is established. The main goal of this article is to stress the importance of tubes in high dimensional dynamical systems

[en] Molecular motors are the workhorses of living cells. Seemingly by ‘magic’, these molecules are able to complete purposeful tasks while being immersed in a sea of thermal chaos. Here, we review the current understanding of how these machines work, present simple models based on thermal ratchets, discuss implications for statistical physics, and provide an overview of ongoing research in this important and fascinating field of study. (key issues review)

[en] Recently, a novel block encryption system has been proposed as an improved version of the chaotic cryptographic method based on iterating a chaotic map. In this Letter, a flaw of this cryptosystem is pointed out and a chosen plaintext attack is presented. Furthermore, a remedial improvement is suggested, which avoids the flaw while keeping all the merits of the original cryptosystem