A New Chaotic Jerk Circuit

Abstract

Much recent interest has been given to simple chaotic oscillators based on jerk equations that involve a third-time derivative of a single scalar variable. The simplest such equation has yet to be electronically implemented. This paper describes a particularly elegant circuit whose operation is accurately described by a simple variant of that equation in which the requisite nonlinearity is provided by a single diode and for which the analysis is particularly straightforward.