Coexisting multiscroll hyperchaotic attractors generated from a novel memristive jerk system

Abstract

In this paper, two kinds of novel non-ideal voltage-controlled multi-piecewise cubic nonlinearity memristors and their mathematical models are presented. By adding the memristor to the circuit of a three-dimensional jerk system, a novel memristive multiscroll hyperchaotic jerk system is established without introducing any other ordinary nonlinear functions, from which $$2N+2$$ -scroll and $$2M+1$$ -scroll hyperchaotic attractors are achieved. It is exciting to note that this new memristive system can produce the extreme multistability phenomenon of coexisting infinitely multiple attractors. Furthermore, the dynamical behaviours of the proposed system are analysed by phase portraits, equilibrium points, Lyapunov exponents and bifurcation diagrams. The results indicate that the system exhibits hyperchaotic, chaotic and periodic dynamics. Especially, the phenomenon of transient chaos can also be found in this memristive multiscroll system. Additionally, the MULTISIM circuit simulations and the hardware experimental results are performed to verify numerical simulations.