On Ghost Attractor in Blinking Chaotic MVD Memristor-Based Circuit and its Application

This work is devoted to explore the possible existence of ghost attractors in a proposed nonautonomous blinking circuit with nonlinear memristors along with their potential application. The nonlinear dynamics of new memristor-based blinking circuit are significantly influenced by the speed of random switchings between its autonomous subcircuits. So, the effects of varying stochastic switching rate on the dynamical behaviors of blinking circuit are examined. It is demonstrated that it is possible to stimulate a non-stationary chaotic attractor for the blinking circuit which is surprisingly different from the attractors of composing subcircuits which exhibit simple periodic dynamics. A sufficiently small time period for random switchings in addition to precise tuning of circuit parameters are the major requirements for establishing these ghost attractors. The fascinating features of the induced ghost attractors render them appropriate noise-like source for secure communications applications. So, we proposed a new pseudo-chaos encryption algorithm that exploits the memristor-based blinking circuit in a more suitable digital platform. The proposed scheme overcomes the usual degradation in performance of digital chaos due to finite precision representation of floating numbers.