Using the sensitive dependence of chaos (the ‘‘butterfly effect’’) to direct trajectories in an experimental chaotic system
- 11 May 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (19) , 2863-2866
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.2863
Abstract
In this paper we present the first experimental verification that the sensitivity of a chaotic system to small perturbations (the ‘‘butterfly effect’’) can be used to rapidly direct orbits from an arbitrary initial state to an arbitrary accessible desired state.Keywords
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