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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Active topolectrical circuits.

Tejas Kotwal, Fischer Moseley, Alexander Stegmaier, Stefan Imhof, Hauke Brand, Tobias Kießling, Ronny Thomale, Henrik Ronellenfitsch, Jörn Dunkel

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Protected Chaos in a Topological Lattice.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  5. Topolectrical space-time circuits.Nature communications · 2025
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  6. Non-Hermitian Global Synchronization.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  8. Bloch oscillations, Landau-Zener transition, and topological phase evolution in an array of coupled pendula.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  9. Model-free characterization of topological edge and corner states in mechanical networks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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9 authors.

Tejas KotwalDepartment of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India.
Fischer MoseleyDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.ORCID 0000-0002-8044-3447
Alexander StegmaierInstitut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
Stefan ImhofPhysikalisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
Hauke BrandPhysikalisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4209-2663
Tobias KießlingPhysikalisches Institut der Universität Würzburg, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0243-0886
Ronny ThomaleInstitut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3979-8836
Henrik RonellenfitschDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; dunkel@mit.edu hmr1@williams.edu.
Jörn DunkelDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; dunkel@mit.edu hmr1@williams.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-8865-2369

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transfer of topological concepts from the quantum world to classical mechanical and electronic systems has opened fundamentally different approaches to protected information transmission and wave guidance. A particularly promising emergent technology is based on recently discovered topolectrical circuits that achieve robust electric signal transduction by mimicking edge currents in quantum Hall systems. In parallel, modern active matter research has shown how autonomous units driven by internal energy reservoirs can spontaneously self-organize into collective coherent dynamics. Here, we unify key ideas from these two previously disparate fields to develop design principles for active topolectrical circuits (ATCs) that can self-excite topologically protected global signal patterns. Realizing autonomous active units through nonlinear Chua diode circuits, we theoretically predict and experimentally confirm the emergence of self-organized protected edge oscillations in one- and two-dimensional ATCs. The close agreement between theory, simulations, and experiments implies that nonlinear ATCs provide a robust and versatile platform for developing high-dimensional autonomous electrical circuits with topologically protected functionalities.

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active circuitsautonomous signal propagationself-organized currentstopological electronics

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PMID34349024
PMCPMC8364202

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