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Debabrata Biswas1, Tanmoy Banerjee2, Jürgen Kurths3,4
1Department of Physics, Rampurhat College, Birbhum 731224, West Bengal, India.
Abstract:
The birhythmic oscillation, generally known as birhythmicity, arises in a plethora of physical, chemical, and biological systems. In this paper we investigate the effect of filtered feedback on birhythmicity as both are relevant in many living and engineering systems. We show that the presence of a low-pass filter in the feedback path of a birhythmic system suppresses birhythmicity and supports monorhythmic oscillations depending on the filtering parameter. Using harmonic decomposition and energy balance methods we determine the conditions for which birhythmicity is removed. We carry out a detailed bifurcation analysis to unveil the mechanism behind the quenching of birhythmic oscillations. Finally, we demonstrate our theoretical findings in analog simulation with electronic circuit. This study may have practical applications in quenching birhythmicity in several biochemical and physical systems.
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