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. 2015 Nov 13;6:8805. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9805

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(a) Tilted energy landscape—nonlinearly stable. (b) Tilted energy landscape—completely unstable. Chaotic behaviour is possible in this scenario. (c) A simple example of an attractor: for a dissipative system, different initial conditions that are in the same basin of attraction result in trajectories (blue and green lines), which end-up in the same limit cycle. (d) Below the critical strain amplitude, for each strain amplitude, the system finds, after a transient (arrow), a stable configuration (circles).