On the generation of chaotic beats in simple nonautonomous circuits

In this Letter, attention is focused on the dynamics of a second-order nonlinear circuit driven by two sinusoidal signals. The early results reported herein show that the application of signals with slightly different frequencies enables the phenomenon of chaotic beats to be generated. In particular, the beats dynamics are analyzed both in time-domain and state-space, confirming the chaotic behavior of the proposed circuit.