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Recent evidence suggests that a system with only stable equilibria can generate chaotic behavior. In this work, we study a chaotic system with two stable equilibrium points. The dynamics of the system is investigated via phase portrait, bifurcation diagram and Lyapunov exponents. The feasibility of the system is introducing its electronic realization. Moreover, the chaotic system is used in Symmetric Chaos Shift Keying (SCSK) and Chaotic ON-OFF Keying (COOK) modulated communication designs for secure communication. It is determined that the SCSK modulated communication system implemented with the chaotic system is more successful than COOK modulation for secure communication.

Although chaotic systems with hidden attractors have been discovered recently, there are few investigations about relationships among them. This brief work introduces a novel chaotic system with only one stable equilibrium that is constructed by adding a tiny perturbation into a known chaotic flow having hidden attractors with a line equilibrium.

In this paper, a new four-dimensional (4D) chaotic system with two cubic nonlinear terms is proposed. The most striking feature is that the new system can exhibit completely symmetric coexisting bifurcation behaviors and four symmetric coexisting attractors with the same Lyapunov exponents in all parameter ranges of the system when taking different initial states. Interestingly, these symmetric coexisting attractors can be considered as unusual symmetrical rotational coexisting attractors, which is a very fascinating phenomenon. Furthermore, by using a memristor to replace the coupling resistor of the new system, an interesting 4D memristive hyperchaotic system with one unstable origin is constructed. Of particular surprise is that it can exhibit four groups of extreme multistability phenomenon of infinitely many coexisting attractors of symmetric distribution about the origin. By using phase portraits, Lyapunov exponent spectra, and coexisting bifurcation diagrams, the dynamics of the two systems are fully analyzed and investigated. Finally, the electronic circuit model of the new system is designed for verifying the feasibility of the new chaotic system.

The memristor is referred to as the fourth fundamental passive circuit element of which inherent nonlinear properties offer to construct the chaos circuits. In this paper, a flux-controlled memristor circuit is developed, and then a van der Pol oscillator is implemented based on this new memristor circuit. The stability of the circuit, the occurring conditions of Hopf bifurcation and limit circle of the self-excited oscillation are analyzed; meanwhile, under the condition of the circuit with an external exciting source, the circuit exhibits a complicated nonlinear dynamic behavior, and chaos occurs within a certain parameter set. The memristor based van der Pol oscillator, furthermore, has been created by an analog circuit utilizing active elements, and there is a good agreement between the circuit responses and numerical simulations of the van der Pol equation. In the consequence, a new approach has been proposed to generate chaos within a nonautonomous circuit system.

A new chaotic system having variable equilibrium is introduced in this paper. The presence of an infinite number of equilibrium points, a stable equilibrium, and no-equilibrium is observed in the system. Interestingly, this system is classified as a rare system with hidden attractors from the view point of computation. Complex dynamical behavior and a circuital implementation of the new system have been investigated in our work.

This paper reports some hidden hyperchaotic attractors and complex dynamics in a new five-dimensional (5D) system with only two nonlinear terms. The system is generated by adding two linear controllers to an unusual 3D autonomous quadratic chaotic system with two stable node-foci. In particular, the hyperchaotic system without equilibrium or with only one stable equilibrium can generate two kinds of hidden hyperchaotic attractors with three positive Lyapunov exponents. Numerical methods not only verify the existence of such attractors and hyperchaotic attractors, but also show the dynamical evolution of this system. The 5D system has self-excited attractors and two types of hidden attractors with the change of its parameter. The parameter switching algorithm is further utilized to numerically approximate the attractor. Specifically, the hidden hyperchaotic attractor can be approximated by switching between two self-excited chaotic attractors. Finally, the circuit realization results are consistent with the numerical results.

We report the experimental implementation of the most fundamental NOR gate with a chaotic Chua's circuit by a simple threshold mechanism. This provides a proof-of-principle experiment to demonstrate the universal computing capability of chaotic circuits in continuous time systems.