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We demonstrate that the prethermal regime of periodically driven (Floquet), classical many-body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we show that there exists an effective Hamiltonian that captures the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Bingtian Ye , Francisco Machado , Norman Y. Yao

Understanding the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems remains one of the grand challenges of modern physics. In particular, increasing attention has been devoted to the emergence of non-equilibrium universality classes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Wenbo Zhou , Yuke Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

This study aims to provide evidence regarding the emergence of a class of dissipative time crystals when $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry of the systems is restored in collective spin systems with Lindblad dynamics. First, we show that a standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuma Nakanishi , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Discrete time quasicrystals (DTQC) constitute a class of non-equilibrium matter characterized by temporal order without strict periodicity, in contrast to conventional time crystals. Investigating these phenomena is essential for expanding…

In periodically driven (Floquet) systems, evolution typically results in an infinite-temperature thermal state due to continuous energy absorption over time. However, before reaching thermal equilibrium, such systems may transiently pass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Kazuya Shinjo , Kazuhiro Seki , Tomonori Shirakawa , Rong-Yang Sun , Seiji Yunoki

We report the observation of long-lived Floquet prethermal discrete time crystalline (PDTC) order in a three-dimensional position-disordered lattice of interacting dipolar-coupled 13C nuclei in diamond at room temperature. We demonstrate a…

Critical points and phase transitions are characterized by diverging susceptibilities, reflecting the tendency of the system toward spontaneous symmetry breaking. Equilibrium statistical mechanics bounds these instabilities to occur at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Orazio Scarlatella , Rosario Fazio , Marco Schiró

Nonlinear classical dissipative systems present a rich phenomenology in their "route to chaos", including period-doubling, i.e. the system evolves with a period which is twice that of the driving. However, typically the attractor of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Reuben R. W. Wang , Bo Xing , Gabriel G. Carlo , Dario Poletti

We show how a large family of interacting nonequilibrium phases of matter can arise from the presence of multiple time-translation symmetries, which occur by quasiperiodically driving an isolated quantum many-body system with two or more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Dominic V. Else , Wen Wei Ho , Philipp T. Dumitrescu

We propose the dynamical stabilization of a nonequilibrium order in a driven dissipative system comprised an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate inside a high finesse optical cavity, pumped with an optical standing wave operating in the regime…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-26 Hans Keßler , Jayson G. Cosme , Christoph Georges , Ludwig Mathey , Andreas Hemmerich

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain driven by a periodic magnetic field. Based on its instantaneous integrability and inherent symmetry, we analytically study the magnetization and many-body tunneling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-22 Xiaotong Chen , Jianda Wu

We report the observation of a symmetry-protected topological time crystal, which is implemented with an array of programmable superconducting qubits. Unlike the time crystals reported in previous experiments, where spontaneous breaking of…

Discrete time crystals (DTCs) are a many-body state of matter whose dynamics are slower than the forces acting on it. The same is true for classical systems with period-doubling bifurcations. Hence, the question naturally arises what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Toni L. Heugel , Alexander Eichler , R. Chitra , Oded Zilberberg

We show that locally-interacting, periodically-driven (Floquet) Hamiltonian dynamics coupled to a Langevin bath support finite-temperature discrete time crystals (DTC) with an infinite auto-correlation time. By contrast to both prethermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Francisco Machado , Quntao Zhuang , Norman Y. Yao , Michael P. Zaletel

Time crystals are many-body systems that spontaneously break time-translation symmetry, and thus exhibit long-range spatiotemporal order and robust periodic motion. Recent results have demonstrated how to build time-crystal phases in driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. I. Hurtado

Discrete time quasi-crystals are non-equilibrium quantum phenomena with quasi-periodic order in the time dimension, and are an extension of the discrete time-crystal phase. As a natural platform to explore the non-equilibrium phase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Xiaofan Luo , Yaoting Zhou , Zhongxiao Xu , Weilun Jiang

We investigate an unconventional symmetry in time-periodically driven systems, the Floquet dynamical symmetry (FDS). Unlike the usual symmetries, the FDS gives symmetry sectors that are equidistant in the Floquet spectrum and protects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-10 Koki Chinzei , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

We show that interacting bosons on a ring which are driven periodically by a rotating potential can support discrete time crystals whose absolute stability can be proven. The absolute stability is demonstrated by an exact mapping of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-29 Krzysztof Giergiel , Jia Wang , Bryan J. Dalton , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

We investigate how symmetries and conserved quantities relate to the occurrence of the boundary time crystal (BTC) phase in a generalized spin model with Lindblad dissipation. BTCs are a non-equilibrium phase of matter in which the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Giulia Piccitto , Matteo Wauters , Franco Nori , Nathan Shammah

We define topological time crystals, a dynamical phase of periodically driven quantum many-body systems capturing the coexistence of intrinsic topological order with the spontaneous breaking of discrete time-translation symmetry. We show…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-11-15 Thorsten B. Wahl , Bo Han , Benjamin Béri