Chaos in a charge-controlled memcapacitor circuit

Memristive circuit element, such as memristor, memcapacitor and meminductor has the property of memory to its dynamic history. The capacitance of a charge-controlled memcapacitor has the relation to the charge accumulated in it, thus leads to nonlinearity. Strange nonlinear behaviors can be observed in some memristive circuits. A three-order passive circuit with charge-controlled memcapacitor is studied in this paper. This circuit consists of conventional R, C, L and one charge-controlled memcapacitor. Simulation result shows that this simple circuit exhibits complex oscillation, and chaotic attractor can be generated in this nonlinear circuit.