Konstantinos Metaxas , Paul P. Sotiriadis , Yannis Kominis
{"title":"Bifurcation analysis and chaotic dynamics of differential LC oscillators with a tail capacitor","authors":"Konstantinos Metaxas , Paul P. Sotiriadis , Yannis Kominis","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work provides a systematic numerical analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of differential <span><math><mrow><mi>L</mi><mi>C</mi></mrow></math></span> oscillators with a tail capacitor. We perform a two-parameter bifurcation analysis, numerically determining the bifurcation curves and the regions of qualitatively distinct behavior. The bifurcations of fixed points are relatively simple and are discussed first. The circuit exhibits complex behavior, including multistability among periodic–periodic, periodic–chaotic, and chaotic–chaotic attractors. Representative phase portraits from each qualitatively distinct region are examined, and the corresponding basins of attraction are identified and analyzed. The complexity of the basins is studied via the basin and boundary basin entropies. Chaotic attractors emerge through Feigenbaum cascades, while crisis bifurcations lead to their merging or destruction. Boundary and interior crisis bifurcations of strange attractors involving transitions between chaotic and periodic behavior are also observed and discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117227"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145181299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Priyanka D. Bhoyar , Govindan Rangarajan , Prashant M. Gade
{"title":"Emergence of continuously varying critical exponents in coupled map lattice as an effect of quenched disorder","authors":"Priyanka D. Bhoyar , Govindan Rangarajan , Prashant M. Gade","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The transition to an absorbing phase in a spatiotemporal system is a well-investigated nonequilibrium dynamic transition. The absorbing phase transitions fall into a few universality classes, defined by the critical exponents observed at the critical point. We present a coupled map lattice (CML) model with quenched disorder in the couplings. In this model, spatial disorders are introduced in the form of asymmetric coupling with a larger coupling (<span><math><mi>p</mi></math></span>) to a neighbor on the right and a smaller coupling (<span><math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mi>p</mi></mrow></math></span>) to the neighbor on the left, for <span><math><mrow><mn>0</mn><mo>≤</mo><mi>p</mi><mo>≤</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>5</mn></mrow></math></span>. For <span><math><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></math></span>, the system belongs to the directed percolation universality class. For <span><math><mrow><mi>p</mi><mo>></mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></math></span>, we observe continuously changing critical exponents at the critical point. The order parameter is the fraction of turbulent sites <span><math><mrow><mi>m</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span>. We observe a power-law decay, <span><math><mrow><mi>m</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>t</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow><mo>∼</mo><msup><mrow><mi>t</mi></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mi>δ</mi></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>, at the critical point <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ϵ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>c</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, where <span><math><mi>ϵ</mi></math></span> is the diffusive coupling parameter. These exponents change continuously and do not match any known universality class in any limit. This could be related to changes in the eigenvalue spectrum of the connectivity matrix as the disorder is introduced.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117253"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategy dependent time delays shape cooperation in the spatial prisoner’s dilemma game","authors":"Javad Mohamadichamgavi","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding how temporal aspects of decision-making influence cooperation in structured populations is crucial for explaining the emergence of cooperative behavior in nature and society. While spatial reciprocity has long been known to support cooperation by allowing cooperators to form protective clusters, the role of time delays, particularly those dependent on strategy choice, remains underexplored. Here, we investigate the effects of strategy-dependent time delays on cooperation dynamics in the weak Prisoner’s Dilemma game on square lattices. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we show that time delays can profoundly alter cooperation levels and spatial patterns. Our results reveal that asymmetries in delays can induce transitions between full cooperation, coexistence, and full defection. Also we show that strategy-dependent delays primarily alter the clustering dynamics of cooperators, which in turn drives the changes in overall cooperation behavior. We further show that the type of Prisoner’s Dilemma (weak or standard) influences only the quantitative level of cooperation, while the qualitative effect of delays remains unchanged.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117255"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infinite-tori intermittency routes to strange nonchaotic attractors in a quasiperiodically forced piecewise-smooth system","authors":"Yunzhu Shen, Miao Yu, Yongxiang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117306","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117306","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Quasiperiodically forced piecewise-smooth systems exhibit distinct routes to strange nonchaotic attractors (SNAs) through torus intermittency. This study reveals a novel infinite-tori intermittency route to SNA in a quasiperiodically forced piecewise-smooth linear system. Infinite <strong><em>n</em></strong>-frequency quasiperiodic tori transform into intermittent SNAs via an inverse period-adding bifurcation. The fractal structure of the attractor is verified through phase-space analysis, while its nonchaotic nature is identified by the largest Lyapunov exponent. Furthermore, we characterize the SNA using phase-sensitive exponents, recurrence plot topology and the distribution of finite-time Lyapunov exponents. In contrast to previously reported intermittent routes to SNAs, the distribution of finite-time Lyapunov exponents in this route exhibits a characteristic multi-peak distribution with zero-value. This work establishes infinite-tori-intermittency-induced SNA formation as a universal mechanism in quasiperiodically forced piecewise-smooth linear systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117306"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of a diffusion-advection model with local perception of toxins","authors":"Xuebing Zhang, Bin Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117259","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117259","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spatial memory plays a critical role in animal movement modeling, yet explicitly modeling the learning processes underlying memory acquisition remains a significant challenge. This study focuses on the dynamics of a two-species model in a toxic environment, where both species are assumed to have a perceptual ability to sense toxins and actively avoid areas with high toxin concentrations to increase their survival chances. The models consist of three PDEs in composition with one ODE and the existence of globally bounded solutions is established in two dimensions by employing advanced coupled energy estimates and the smoothing properties of the Neumann semigroup. We then conduct a spectral analysis of the model and determine the stability of the steady-state solutions by analyzing the corresponding eigenvalue problems. Subsequently, we perform bifurcation analysis using spatial memory decay rate and perceptual diffusion rate as bifurcation parameters. The study reveals that both steady-state and Hopf bifurcations can occur in these systems, with bifurcation points identified to delineate stability regions. Moreover, these systems are capable of generating rich spatial and spatiotemporal patterns through various types of bifurcations. Our work introduces a novel approach for addressing hybrid PDE-ODE models and provides deeper insights into the cognitive movement-driven dynamics of consumer-resource interactions. This framework enhances the understanding of species behavior in response to environmental toxins and offers new perspectives on ecological stability and pattern formation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117259"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modified quintic trigonometric B-spline differential quadrature method for the improved Boussinesq equation","authors":"Jiawen Deng , Shahid Hussain , Kaysar Rahman","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study proposed a modified quintic trigonometric B-spline function applied within a differential quadrature method to solve the Improved Boussinesq equation, a key model for shallow water waves and nonlinear wave phenomena. Stability is analyzed through eigenvalue plots. The proposed technique successfully simulates both single and double solitary wave solutions, with results validated against established numerical methods and exact solutions, confirming its effectiveness. Additionally, the study explores physical phenomena such as Solitary wave splitting motion, interactions of double solitary waves, and mutual motion of multiple solitary waves. The findings highlight the method’s effectiveness in capturing the complex behaviors of solitary waves, serving as a valuable tool for research in nonlinear wave dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117258"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamical analysis of Jacobian elliptic function soliton solutions, and chaotic behavior with defective tools of the stochastic PNLSE equation with multiplicative white noise","authors":"Md. Mamunur Roshid , Mohamed Abdalla , M.S. Osman","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117288","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117288","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This manuscript presents an exclusive study on the stochastic perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation (SPNLSE) to check the wave propagation of light in nonlinear optical fibers. Firstly, the stochastic perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation is converted into a planar dynamic system using a wave transformation variable and a Galilean transformation. Secondly, the chaotic nature, super-periodicity, strange attractor, fractal dimension, and return map are analyzed using a frequency and trigonometric perturbation term. Additionally, the optical soliton solutions of the proposed model are constructed using a new Jacobian elliptic function method. The solutions encompass all trigonometric and hyperbolic functions. Using suitable values for the free parameters, the bright bell shape, dark bell shape, periodic wave, and M-shape soliton solution are illustrated through three-dimensional (3D), two-dimensional (pathline) profiles and also analyse the dynamic properties of the derived solutions. The influence of the multiplicative noise intensity is also presented for diverse values of <span><math><mi>ρ</mi></math></span>. This method demonstrates how well graphical simulations work to show how these solutions behave and interact in practical settings. The result of the comparison demonstrates that the multiplicative noise has a great influence on the obtained solutions. Additionally, the numerical stability of the obtained soliton solutions is checked by the Hamiltonian method. The obtained solutions of the proposed model are very important for figuring out how stable optical solitons are, how noise causes jitter, and how signals degrade in fiber-optic communications and nonlinear photonic systems. The multiplicative noise term is very important since it scales with the signal itself, which causes phase and amplitude noise to be associated. This can affect long-haul transmission and ultrafast pulse dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117288"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145155904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor Kamdoum Tamba , Junior Tchiaze Tofou , Viet-Thanh Pham , Giuseppe Grassi
{"title":"Impact of the combined effect of synaptic weight and electromagnetic radiation on the dynamical behaviors of a Rulkov neuron: Theoretical investigations and microcontroller-based experiment","authors":"Victor Kamdoum Tamba , Junior Tchiaze Tofou , Viet-Thanh Pham , Giuseppe Grassi","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117291","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The neural network of a biological brain is made up of billions of neurons interconnected to each other through their dendrites and synapses. Using their synapses, these neurons communicate or transmit information by emitting electrical impulses. This makes it very necessary for us to consider both the complex electromagnetic environments present in the brain, and the synaptic behavior of the biological neurons while simulating and studying brain functions. With the aim of studying the combined effects of these two phenomena on an improved Rulkov neuron, this work makes use of non-polynomial memristor to simulate and investigate the synaptic behavior of an improved Rulkov neuron under electromagnetic radiation. The investigations carried out shows that the studied model undergoes both stable and unstable dynamics depending on the system parameters. This is further consolidated by numerical analyses from which the synaptic weight Rulkov neuron exposed to electromagnetic radiation shows rich and interesting dynamics such as self-excited and hidden attractors, which evolve from periodic to irregular motions, bubble-like bifurcation and offset boosting features. Finally, physical findings obtained with the help of breadboard microcontroller-based experiment confirm the validity of the numerical simulations results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117291"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Sasireka , S. Sabari , A. Uthayakumar , Lauro Tomio
{"title":"Modulational instability of Bose–Einstein condensates with inter-spin–orbit coupling in deep optical lattice","authors":"R. Sasireka , S. Sabari , A. Uthayakumar , Lauro Tomio","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117275","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117275","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present a comprehensive study of modulational instability (MI) in a binary Bose–Einstein condensate with spin–orbit coupling, confined to a deep optical lattice. The system is modeled by a set of discrete Gross–Pitaevskii equations. Using linear stability analysis, we derive the explicit MI conditions for the system, elucidating the critical and distinct roles played by spin–orbit coupling, inter-species nonlinearity, and intra-species nonlinearity. Our analysis, conducted for both unstaggered and staggered fundamental modes, reveals markedly different instability landscapes for these two configurations. The analytical predictions are confirmed by extensive numerical simulations of the full nonlinear dynamics, which vividly illustrate the spatiotemporal evolution of wave amplitudes, phase coherence, and energy localization during the instability process. The numerical results, obtained via a fourth-order Runge–Kutta method, show excellent agreement with the linear stability theory and provide a complete picture of the MI-induced pattern formation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117275"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integer-valued multifractal processes","authors":"Danijel Grahovac","doi":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117277","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117277","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Multifractal scaling has been extensively studied for real-valued stochastic processes, but a systematic integer-valued analogue has remained largely unexplored. In this work, we introduce a multifractal framework for integer-valued processes using the thinning operation, which serves as a natural discrete counterpart to scalar multiplication. Within this framework, we construct integer-valued multifractal processes by time changing compound Poisson processes with nondecreasing multifractal clocks. We derive the scaling laws of their moments, provide explicit examples, and illustrate the results through numerical simulations. This construction integrates multifractal concepts into point process theory, enabling analysis of nonlinear discrete stochastic systems with nontrivial scaling properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9764,"journal":{"name":"Chaos Solitons & Fractals","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 117277"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145156326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}