Experimental observation of a torus-doubling transition to chaos near the ferroelectric phase transition of a KH2PO4 crystal.
A ferroelectric KH2PO4 crystal is implemented in a simple series connection of an RLC circuit and the transition to chaos near the phase-transition temperature is investigated. The torus-doubling scenario to chaos, the theory of which was expounded by Kaneko for high-dimensional dynamical systems, has been found in the crystal. These experimental results suggest that observation of the nonlinear dynamical behavior in condensed matter can give much information about the correlation between the generation of nonlinearity and the order-parameter dynamics of the crystal near the phase-transition temperature.
Shin
J C
JC
Research Institute for Basic Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. jcshin@phya.snu.ac.kr