Edge of Chaos Is Sine Qua Non for Turing Instability
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Abstract
Diffusion-driven instabilities with pattern formation may occur in a network of identical, regularly-spaced, and resistively-coupled cells if and only if the uncoupled cell is poised on a locally-active and stable operating point in the Edge of Chaos domain. This manuscript presents the simplest ever-reported two-cell neural network, combining together only 7 two-terminal components, namely 2 batteries, 3 resistors, and 2 volatile NbOx memristive threshold switches from NaMLab, and subject to diffusion-driven instabilities with the concurrent emergence of Turing patterns. Very remarkably, this is the first time an homogeneous cellular medium, with no other dynamic element than 2 locally-active memristors, hence the attribute all-memristor coined to address it in this paper, is found to support complex phenomena. The destabilization of the homogeneous solution occurs in this second-order two-cell array if and only if the uncoupled cell circuit parameters are chosen from the Edge of Chaos domain. A deep circuit-and system-theoretic investigation, including linearization analysis and phase portrait investigation, provides a comprehensive picture for the local and global dynamics of the bio-inspired network, revealing how a theory-assisted approach may guide circuit design with inherently non-linear memristive devices.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4596-4609 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 11 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2022 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0000-0001-7436-0103/work/172566314 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0002-1236-1300/work/172567148 |
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Keywords
- bio-inspired memristor oscillator, cellular nonlinear/neural/nanoscale network, destabilization of the homogeneous, edge of chaos principle, emergent phenomena, NaMLab NbOmemristor, pattern formation, Prigogine symmetry-breaking, Smale paradox, theory of local activity, threshold switch, turing instability, two-cell reaction-diffusion system