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Quasiperiodic and chaotic behavior due to competition between spatial and temporal modes in long Josephson junctions

L. E. Guerrero, M. Octavio

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.37.3641 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

We present numerical simulations of long Josephson junctions in the presence of an rf bias and an applied magnetic field, which we model with a sine-Gordon-like equation. We focus our attention on quasiperiodic and chaotic dynamics and their transitions. We show that quasiperiodicity arises from the competition between two incommensurate frequencies: one due to the success of the system in exciting a solitonlike structure and the second one due to the rf drive. We demonstrate the universality of the multifractal structure of the attractor at the onset of chaos.

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