https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2017-70062-0
Review
Quasiperiodicity and suppression of multistability in nonlinear dynamical systems
1 School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, USA
2 Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
a e-mail: Ying-Cheng.Lai@asu.edu
Received: 20 February 2017
Revised: 4 March 2017
Published online: 24 May 2017
It has been known that noise can suppress multistability by dynamically connecting coexisting attractors in the system which are otherwise in separate basins of attraction. The purpose of this mini-review is to argue that quasiperiodic driving can play a similar role in suppressing multistability. A concrete physical example is provided where quasiperiodic driving was demonstrated to eliminate multistability completely to generate robust chaos in a semiconductor superlattice system.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2017
