Strongly Coupled Continuous Time Crystal
Quantum Physics
2025-08-15 v2
Abstract
Time crystals are classified into discrete time crystals and continuous time crystals based on whether they spontaneously break time-translation symmetry. Continuous-time crystals do not require external driving. By introducing AdS/CFT duality to time crystals, we derive their thermodynamic limit and find that in strongly correlated many-body systems such as a 3D optical lattice(ions or tweezer in supplemental materials), cooperative many-body tunneling enables time crystals to oscillate spontaneously. In strongly correlated quantum systems driven by many-body cooperative tunneling, we discover a universal scaling law governing the time-crystalline phase transition at a critical temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.15295,
title = {Strongly Coupled Continuous Time Crystal},
author = {Ximo Wang and Qiwei Han and Zhenqi Bai and Hongyan Fan and Yichi Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.15295},
year = {2025}
}