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The quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram, which reveals the state of strongly interacting matter at different temperatures and densities, is key to answering open questions in physics, ranging from the behavior of particles in neutron…

Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which…

Charge-density-wave (CDW) is a modulation of the conduction electron density in a conductor. Under low temperature, it can spontaneously happen in some compounds that consist of anisotropic one-dimensional crystal structures, via a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-06 Ting-Ting Kang

We report on sliding Charge Density Wave (CDW) in the quasi two-dimensional TbTe$_3$ system probed by coherent x-ray diffraction combined with {\it in-situ} transport measurements. We show that the non-Ohmic conductivity in TbTe$_3$ is made…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-08 D. Le Bolloc'h , A. A. Sinchenko , V. L. R. Jacques , L. Ortega , J. E. Lorenzo , G. Chahine , . Lejay , P. Monceau

Quasisymmetry (QS) provides a novel route to understand and control near-degeneracies, Berry curvature, optical selection rules, and symmetry-protected phenomena in quantum materials. Here we give physical interpretations of the emergence…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-23 Bryan D. Assunção , Emmanuel V. C. Lopes , Tome M. Schmidt , Gerson J. Ferreira

Spontaneously crystalline ground states, called quantum crystals, of a trapped Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensate are numerically investigated. As a result described by a mean-field order parameter, such states simultaneously possess…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-25 C. -H. Hsueh , T. -C. Lin , T. -L. Horng , W. C. Wu

Charge density wave (CDW) orders in YNiC2 are studied by means of combined experimental and computational techniques. On the experimental side, single crystals grown by the floating-zone method were examined by means of X-ray diffraction,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-07 Marta Roman , Simone Di Cataldo , Berthold Stöger , Lisa Reisinger , Emilie Morineau , Kamil K. Kolincio , Herwig Michor

Time crystals are many-body systems whose ground state spontaneously breaks time-translation symmetry and thus exhibits long-range spatiotemporal order and robust periodic motion. Using hydrodynamics, we have recently shown how an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. I. Hurtado

A quantum phase of matter can be understood from the symmetry of the system's Hamiltonian. The system symmetry along the time axis has been proposed to show a new phase of matter referred as discrete-time crystals (DTCs). A DTC is a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Akitada Sakurai , Victor M. Bastidas , Marta P. Estarellas , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

A novel way to create a band structure of the quasienergy spectrum for driven systems is proposed based on the discrete symmetry in phase space. The system, e.g., an ion or ultracold atom trapped in a potential, shows no spatial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-08 Lingzhen Guo , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

We construct a four-dimensional supersymmetric QCD in conformal window with a marginally relevant deformation which triggers the spontaneous breaking of (approximate) scale invariance and the subsequent confinement, generating a mass gap,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Kohei Fujikura , Shota Nakagawa , Yuichiro Nakai , Peng Sun , Yufei Zhang

We demonstrate that exciting possible realizations of quantum Floquet matter are within reach for modern silicon spin qubits based in quantum dots, most notably the discrete time crystal (DTC). This is significant given that spin qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Nathan L. Foulk , Sankar Das Sarma

Incommensurate structures arise from stacking single layers of low-dimensional materials on top of one another with misalignment such as an in-plane twist in orientation. While these structures are of significant physical interest, they…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-26 Ting Wang , Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou , Daniel Massatt

Quantum materials with tunable correlated and/or topological electronic states, such as the electronic Kagome lattice, provide an ideal platform to study the exotic quantum properties. However, the real-space investigations on the…

The transition-metal tetrachalcogenides are a model system to explore the conjunction of correlated electronic states such as charge density waves (CDW), with topological phases of matter. Understanding the connection between these phases…

In the framework of the method of constraint system quantization, a quantum gravitational system (QGS) with the maximally symmetric geometry is studied. The state vector of the QGS satisfies the set of wave equations which describes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at non-zero isospin chemical potential is studied in a canonical approach by analyzing systems of fixed isospin number density. To construct these systems, we develop a range of new algorithms for performing the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-05-30 William Detmold , Kostas Orginos , Zhifeng Shi

In this work, we analyze a scalar field model which gives rise to stable bound states in field space characterized by nonzero motion that breaks the underlying time translation symmetry of its Hamiltonian, known as time crystals. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Laura Mersini-Houghton

Theoretical calculations on transmission of quantum states such as Schr\"{o}dinger cat (SC) states are considered in a periodically poled nonlinear crystal (PPNC). Combinations of various initial states (SC, coherent (C),and vacuum (V)) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Ranjit Singh

Various phase transitions in models for coupled charge-density waves are investigated by means of the $\epsilon$-expansion, mean-field theory, and Monte Carlo simulations. At zero temperature the effective action for the system with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Minchul Lee , Eun-Ah Kim , Jong Soo Lim , M. Y. Choi