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We identify a time crystal phase characterized by a frequency half of the driving frequency in disordered superconductors by employing the time dependent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism at zero temperature with a periodically driven coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-21 Bo Fan , Zi Cai , Antonio M. García-García

Time metamaterials exhibit a great potential for wave manipulation, drawing increasing attention in recent years. Here, we explore the exotic wave dynamics in an anisotropic photonic time crystal (APTC), formed by an anisotropic medium…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-10 Huanan Li , Shixiong Yin , Huan He , Jingjun Xu , Andrea Alù , Boris Shapiro

We describe a possible general and simple paradigm in a classical thermal setting for discrete time crystals (DTCs), systems with stable dynamics which is subharmonic to the driving frequency thus breaking discrete time-translational…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-22 F. M. Gambetta , F. Carollo , A. Lazarides , I. Lesanovsky , J. P. Garrahan

A unified theory of the temporal current self-oscillations is presented. We establish these oscillations as the manifestations of limit cycles, around unstable steady-state solutions caused by the negative differential conductance. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. R. Wang , Z. Z. Sun , S. Q. Duan , Shi-dong Wang

String cosmology aims at providing a reliable description of the very early Universe in the regime where standard-model physics is no longer appropriate, and where we can safely apply the basic ingredients of superstring models such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-24 M. Gasperini

The standard model of cosmology with nearly Gaussian, isotropic, scale invariant and adiabatic initial conditions describes the cosmological observations well. However, the study of any deviation from the mentioned conditions will open up a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-31 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Shant Baghram

We compute the spectrum of cosmological perturbations in a scenario in which inflation is driven by radiation in a non-commutative space-time. In this scenario, the non-commutativity of space and time leads to a modified dispersion relation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Seoktae Koh , Robert H. Brandenberger

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

We investigate the spectrum of cosmological perturbations in a bounce cosmos modeled by a scalar field coupled to the string tachyon field (CSTB cosmos). By explicit computation of its primordial spectral index we show the power spectrum of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Changhong Li , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung

This review article aims at presenting the theory of inflation. We first describe the background spacetime behavior during the slow-roll phase and analyze how inflation ends and the Universe reheats. Then, we present the theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome Martin

Dissipative time crystals can appear in spin systems, when the $Z_2$ symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken by the environment, and the square of total spin operator $S^2$ is conserved. In this manuscript, we relax the latter condition and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano , Rosario Fazio , Angelo Russomanno

An accelerated universe should naturally have a vacuum energy density determined by its dynamical curvature. The cosmological constant is most likely a temporary description of a dynamical variable that has been drastically evolving from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-28 Joan Sola

Emergent cosmological models, together with the Big Bang and bouncing scenarios, are among the possible descriptions of the early Universe. This work aims at clarifying some general features of the primordial tensor power spectrum in this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-14 Killian Martineau , Aurélien Barrau

Photonic time-crystals (PTCs) are spatially-homogeneous media whose electromagnetic (EM) susceptibility varies periodically in time, causing temporal reflections and refractions for any wave propagating within the medium. The time-reflected…

Photonic Time crystals (PTC) arise in time-modulated media when the frequency of modulation of permittivity is on the order of twice the frequency of light and are manifested by the generation and amplification of so-called time reversed…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jacob B Khurgin

We clarify the way in which cosmological perturbations of quantum origin, produced during inflation, assume classical properties. Two features play an important role in this process: First, the dynamics of fluctuations which are presently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 C. Kiefer , D. Polarski

Time has always played a crucial role in cosmology. I review some of the aspects of the present cosmological model which are more directly related to time, such as: the definition of a cosmic time; the existence of typical timescales and…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 A. Balbi

It has been recently proposed that the presence of a temporal electromagnetic field on cosmological scales could explain the phase of accelerated expansion that the universe is currently undergoing. The field contributes as a cosmological…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Tomi S. Koivisto , Antonio L. Maroto , David F. Mota

Cosmological perturbations are generally described by quantum fields on (curved but) classical space-times. While this strategy has a large domain of validity, it can not be justified in the quantum gravity era where curvature and matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

In present talk I show that primordial helical turbulence produced during a first-order phase transition induces circularly polarized cosmological gravitational waves (GWs). The degree of polarization as well as the characteristic frequency…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tina Kahniashvili