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Prethermal discrete time crystals (DTCs) are a novel phase of periodically driven matter that exhibits robust subharmonic oscillations without requiring disorder. However, previous realizations of prethermal DTCs have relied on the presence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-15 Takeru Yokota , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

The aim of this paper is to propose a criterion of spontaneous symmetry breaking that makes reference to the properties of pure phases defined by a translationally invariant state. By avoiding any reference to the ground state, at the basis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-08 Carlo Heissenberg , Franco Strocchi

Continuous time crystal (CTC) and quasi-crystal (CTQC) are two novel phases of matter characterized by the spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry. To date, realizations of CTCs with periodic oscillations have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Ying Huang , Tishuo Wang , Haochuan Yin , Min Jiang , Zhihuang Luo , Xinhua Peng

Continuous time-translation symmetry is often spontaneously broken in open quantum systems, and the condition for their emergence has been actively investigated. However, there are only a few cases in which its condition for appearance has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yuma Nakanishi , Ryo Hanai , Tomohiro Sasamoto

The exotic phenomenon of time translation symmetry breaking under periodic driving - the time crystal - has been shown to occur in many-body systems even in clean setups where disorder is absent. In this work, we propose the realization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 R. E. Barfknecht , S. E. Rasmussen , A. Foerster , N. T. Zinner

It has been argued that the existence of time crystals requires a spontaneous breakdown of the continuous time translation symmetry so to account for the unexpected non-stationary behavior of quantum observables in the ground state. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

The breaking of the continuous time-translation symmetry manifests, in Markovian open quantum systems, through the emergence of non-stationary dynamical phases. Systems that display nonequilibrium transitions into these phases are referred…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Continuous time (CT) and discrete time (DT) linear time invariant (LTI) systems are commonly introduced through distinct mathematical formalisms, which can obscure their underlying dynamical equivalence. This tutorial presents a unified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Luca Giangrande

The study of topologically ordered states have given rise to a growing interest in symmetry protected states in quantum matter. Recently, this theory has been extended to quantum many body systems which demonstrate ordered states at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 Christopher Sims

Differential distributed space-time coding (D-DSTC) is a cooperative transmission technique that can improve diversity in wireless relay networks in the absence of channel information. Conventionally, it is assumed that channels are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 M. R. Avendi , Hamid Jafarkhani

Comparing data defined over space and time is notoriously hard, because it involves quantifying both spatial and temporal variability, while at the same time taking into account the chronological structure of data. Dynamic Time Warping…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Hicham Janati , Marco Cuturi , Alexandre Gramfort

A quantum time crystal (QTC) is a novel quantum mechanical ground state that was recently proposed by Wilczek. Although many QTC models have been proposed, it is not clear yet if such states are possible. We propose the idea that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Keiji Nakatsugawa , Toshiyuki Fujii , Satoshi Tanda

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

Exploring continuous time crystals (CTCs) within the symmetric subspace of spin systems has been a subject of intensive research in recent times. Thus far, the stability of the time-crystal phase outside the symmetric subspace in such spin…

Discrete time crystals are related to non-equilibrium dynamics of periodically driven quantum many-body systems where the discrete time translation symmetry of the Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken into another discrete symmetry.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-31 Arkadiusz Kosior , Krzysztof Sacha

We demonstrate the emergence of a time crystal of atoms in a high-finesse optical cavity driven by a phase-modulated transverse pump field, resulting in a shaken lattice. This shaken system exhibits macroscopic oscillations in the number of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-27 Jayson G. Cosme , Jim Skulte , Ludwig Mathey

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and elementary excitation are two of the pillars of condensed matter physics that are closely related to each other. The symmetry and its spontaneous breaking not only control the dynamics and spectrum of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-20 Xiaoqin Yang , Zi Cai

We study an emergent semiclassical time crystal composed of two interacting driven-dissipative bosonic modes. The system has a discrete $\mathbb Z_2$ spatial symmetry which, depending on the strength of the drive, can be broken in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Cristóbal Lledó , Marzena H. Szymańska

This paper investigates the possibility of generating Floquet-time crystals in higher dimensions ($d\geq 2$) through the time-periodic driving of integrable free-fermionic models. The realization leads to rigid time-crystal phases that are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-13 Rahul Chandra , Analabha Roy

Time crystals constitute a novel phase of matter defined by the spontaneous breaking of timetranslation symmetry. Here we present a scheme to realize a continuous-time crystal of the vibrational phonon in the normal mode of two coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Yi-Ling Zhan , Chun-Fu Liu , J. -T. Bu , K. -F Cui , S. -L. Su , L. -L. Yan , Gang Chen