Floquet Time Crystals
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2016-08-31 v4 Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Physics
Abstract
We define what it means for time translation symmetry to be spontaneously broken in a quantum system, and show with analytical arguments and numerical simulations that this occurs in a large class of many-body-localized driven systems with discrete time-translation symmetry.
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@article{arxiv.1603.08001,
title = {Floquet Time Crystals},
author = {Dominic V. Else and Bela Bauer and Chetan Nayak},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08001},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
4 pages + 3 pages supplementary materials. Comments welcome. v4: rewritten introduction