https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70022-8
Regular Article
Exploring phase control with square pulsed perturbations
1 Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Largo E. Fermi 6, Firenze, Italy
2 Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, 58051-970 Joao Pessoa, Brazil
3 Instituto de Altos Estudos da Paraiba, Rua Silvino Lopes 419-2502, 58039-190 Joao Pessoa, Brazil
4 Complexity Sciences Center, 9225 Collins Avenue, Suite 1208, Surfside, FL 33154, USA
5 Università Vita Salute San Raffaele, Via Olgettina 58, 20132 Milano, Italy
6 Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
a e-mail: riccardo.meucci@ino.it
Received: 27 January 2017
Revised: 17 March 2017
Published online: 21 June 2017
We discuss the phase control technique consisting of an applied square pulsed periodic perturbation. We explore the effect of such perturbations to the different terms of the Duffing oscillator. We find that the effect depends sensitively on how the perturbation is applied, indeed, it is specially effective when it modulates the cubic and the linear term and uneffective when applied to the driving term. Our results highlight the highly nontrivial role of the phase when applying a second periodic perturbation to a chaotic system.
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