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Mechanism for Band-Merging Transitions in Quasiperiodically Forced Systems

Woochang Lim and Sang-Yoon Kim Department of PhysicsKangwon National University

Quasiperiodically Forced 1D Map

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Band-Merging (BM) Transition of the Chaotic Attractor (CA)

Through a Collision with the CA and a Smooth Unstable Parent Torus (Dashed Line), the “Standard” BM Transition of the CA Occurs.

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Two-Band CA Single-Band CA

Investigation of BM Transitions in M2: Two-Band CA in M A Pair of Conjugate CA in M2

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Route : Standard BM Transition of the CA through a Collision with the Smooth Unstable Parent TorusRoute : Standard BM Transition of the Strange Nonchaotic Attractor (SNA) through a Collision with the Smooth Unstable Parent TorusRoute : Appearance of the Single Band SNA via a Collision with the Smooth Unstable Parent Torus (Heagy-Hammel Route)Route A: BM Transition of the Smooth Torus through a Collision with a Ring-Shaped Unstable Set (RUS)Route B(C): BM Transition of the SNA (CA) through a Collision with a RUSRoute a: Appearance of the Two-Band Intermittent SNARoute b: Attractor Widening Crisis of the SNA

Phase Diagram near the Second Order Tongue

Magnified Phase Diagram

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Basin Boundary Metamorphosis

In M2, the Smooth Doubled Torus with Two Bands Turns into a Pair of Conjugate Tori inside Their Absorbing Area Bounded by the Critical Curves Lk (k=1, …, 8). The Basins of Upper and Lower Tori are shown in Light Gray and Gray, Respectively. A Smooth Unstable Torus (Dashed Line) Lies on a Basin Boundary.

Through a Breakup of the Absorbing Area via a Collision with the Smooth Unstable Parent Torus on the Basin Boundary, “Holes” of other basin of the counterpart Appear inside the Basins of the Smooth Attracting Tori.

Through the Basin Boundary Metamorphosis, the Smooth Unstable Parent Torus Becomes Inaccessible from the Interior of Basin of the Upper and Lower Tori.

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Expectation: In the Quasiperiodic Limit, the RUS forms a Complicated Unstable Set Composed of Only Unstable Orbits

• Appearance of CA via Period-Doubling Bifurcations (PDBs) and Its Disappearance via a Boundary Crisis (Lower Gray Line: Period-F5 (=5) Orbits Destabilized via PDBs)

• RUS of Level k=5: Composed of 5 Small Rings Each Ring: Composed of Stable (Black) and Unstable (Gray) Orbits with Period F5 (=5) (Unstable Part: Toward the Smooth Torus They may Interact.)

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Ring-Shaped Unstable Set

Rational Approximation (RA)• Investigation of the BM Transition in a Sequence of Periodically Forced Systems with Rational Driving Frequencies k, Corresponding to the RA to the Quasiperiodic Forcing :

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Birth of a RUS Evolution of the Rings

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Band-Merging Transition of the Smooth Torus

Through a Collision with a Smooth Doubled Torus with Two Bands and Hole Boundary, BM Transition of the Smooth Torus Occurs, and then a Single-Band SNA Appears.

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Smooth Doubled Torus with Two Bands Single-Band SNA

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Mechanism for the Band-Merging of the Smooth Torus

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In the RA of level k=8, the Phase-Dependent Saddle-Node-Bifurcation between Smooth Torus and RUS on the Hole Boundary Occurs for (=0.159 750 121) when a=3.43. Appearance of F8 (=21) “Gaps”, where Single-Band Intermittent CAs Exist.

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Band-Merging Transition of SNA and CA through Collisions with RUSs

BM Transition of the SNA for =0.1305

BM Transition of the CA for =0.105

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Single-Band SNA for a=3.5157Two-Band SNA for a=3.5153

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Single-Band CA for a=3.545Two-Band CA for a=3.535

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Mechanism for the Band-Merging Transition of SNA

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In the RA of level k=8, the Interior Crisis of the Chaotic Component of the RA of the SNA and RUS on the Hole Boundary Occurs for (=3.522 675 762) when =0.1305. Appearance of F8 (=21) gaps, where Single-Band Intermittent CAs Exist.

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Mechanism for the BM Transition of a CA is the Same as That for the Case of SNA.

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Summary

• Investigation of the Band-Merging Transition Using the Rational Approximation

New Type of Band-Merging Transition for a Nonchaotic Attractor (Smooth Torus or SNA) as well as a Chaotic Attractor Occurs through the Collision with a Ring-Shaped Unstable Set.

Particularly, a Single-Band SNA Appears via a New Band-Merging Transition of aSmooth Doubled Torus. New Mechanism for the Birth of SNA