Chemical Resonance, Beats, and Frequency Locking in Forced Chemical Oscillatory Systems

Lawson, Hugh Shearer and Holló, Gábor and Horváth, Róbert and Kitahata, Hiroyuki and Lagzi, István László (2020) Chemical Resonance, Beats, and Frequency Locking in Forced Chemical Oscillatory Systems. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 11 (8). pp. 3014-3019. ISSN 1948-7185

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Abstract

Resonance, beats, and synchronization are general and fundamental phenomena in physics. Their existence and their in-depth understanding in physical systems have led to several applications and technological developments shaping our world today. Here we show the existence of chemical resonance, chemical beats, and frequency locking phenomena in periodically forced pH oscillatory systems (sulfite−hydrogen peroxide and sulfite−formaldehyde−gluconolactone pH oscillatory systems). Periodic forcing was realized by a superimposed sinusoidal modulation on the inflow rates of the reagents in the continuousflow stirred tank reactor. The dependence of the time period of beats follows the relation known from classical physics for forced physical oscillators. Our developed numerical model describes qualitatively the resonance and beat phenomena experimentally revealed. Application of periodic forcing in autonomously oscillating systems can provide new types of oscillators with a controllable frequency and new insight into controlling irregular chemical oscillation regimes.

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