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Cristian Bonatto1, Jason A C Gallas
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Abstract:
We report the discovery of a remarkable "periodicity hub" inside the chaotic phase of an electronic circuit containing two diodes as a nonlinear resistance. The hub is a focal point from where an infinite hierarchy of nested spirals emanates. By suitably tuning two reactances simultaneously, both current and voltage may have their periodicity increased continuously without bound and without ever crossing the surrounding chaotic phase. Familiar period-adding current and voltage cascades are shown to be just restricted one-parameter slices of an exceptionally intricate and very regular onionlike parameter surface centered at the focal hub which organizes all the dynamics.
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