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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

A spacetime crystal is a phase of matter that spontaneously develops periodic order in both space and time. Spacetime crystals have been experimentally observed in microscopic quantum many-body systems and, very recently, in a mesoscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-11 Guoqing Liu , Jimin Bai , Matteo Baggioli , Jie Zhang

Synthetic spaces allow physicists to bypass constraints imposed by certain physical laws in experiments. Here, we show that a synthetic torus, which consists of a ring trap in the real space and internal states of ultracold atoms cyclically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-01-03 Yangqian Yan , Shao-Liang Zhang , Sayan Choudhury , Qi Zhou

We present the design and operation of a very-low temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) working at $60 mK$ in a dilution refrigerator. The STM features both atomic resolution and micron-sized scanning range at low temperature.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Moussy , H. Courtois , B. Pannetier

Pair interaction potentials between atoms in a crystal are in general non-monotonic in distance, with a local minimum whose position gives the lattice constant of the crystal. A temporal analogue of this idea of crystal formation is still…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Weiyu Wang , Mingjun Feng , Qianjin Ma , Zi Cai , Erwei Li , Guobin Liu

Time boundaries (TBs), temporal analogues of spatial interfaces, offer a powerful handle to engineer quantum systems. However, unlike the well-developed stationary scattering theory at spatial interfaces, a unified framework for quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Haiping Hu

Time-translation symmetry breaking is a mechanism for the emergence of non-stationary many-body phases, so-called time-crystals, in Markovian open quantum systems. Dynamical aspects of time-crystals have been extensively explored over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Mauro Antezza , Gabriele De Chiara

Skyrmions are topological structures defined by a winding vector configuration that yields a quantized topological charge. In magnetic materials, skyrmions manifest as stable, mobile spin textures, positioning them at the forefront of…

A model demonstrating existence of a thermodynamically stable quantum time-space crystal has been proposed and studied. This state is characterized by an order parameter periodic in both real and imaginary times. The average of the order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Konstantin B. Efetov

Driven-dissipative many-body system supports nontrivial quantum phases absent in equilibrium. As a prominent example, the interplay between coherent driving and collective dissipation can lead to a dynamical quantum phase that spontaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhuqing Wang , Ruochen Gao , Xiaoling Wu , Berislav Buča , Klaus Mølmer , Li You , Fan Yang

Time crystals are many-body states that spontaneously break translation symmetry in time the way that ordinary crystals do in space. While experimental observations have confirmed the existence of discrete or continuous time crystals, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Yu-Hui Chen , Xiangdong Zhang

Bose-Einstain condensation occurs at an appropriate density of bosonic particles, depending on their mass and temperature. We were able to experimentally observe the transition from the spin wave regime to the magnon Bose-Einstein condensed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 G. A. Knyazev , A. N. Kuzmichev , P. E. Petrov , I. V. Savochkin , P. M. Vetoshko , V. I. Belotelov , Yu. M. Bunkov

An effect of metallization of the magnonic crystal surface on the band gaps formation in the spectra of the surface spin wave (SSW) is studied both theoretically and experimentally. The structures under consideration are one-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-19 M. Mruczkiewicz , E. S. Pavlov , S. L. Vysotsky , M. Krawczyk , Yu. A. Filimonov , S. A. Nikitov

Collective magnetic excitation modes, magnons, can be coherently coupled to microwave photons in the single excitation limit. This allows for access to quantum properties of magnons and opens up a range of applications in quantum…

We study experimentally the possibility to utilize pulses of pure spin current, produced via the nonlocal spin injection mechanism, to generate short packets of spin waves propagating in nanoscale magnetic waveguides. The spatially and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 B. Divinskiy , V. E. Demidov , S. O. Demokritov , A. B. Rinkevich , S. Urazhdin

We present a theory and a simulation of thermal diffuse scattering due to the excitation of magnons in scanning transmission electron microscopy. The calculations indicate that magnons can present atomic contrast when detected by electron…

We consider the two dimensional (2D) classical lattice Coulomb gas as a model for magnetic field induced vortices in 2D superconducting networks. Two different dynamical rules are introduced to investigate driven diffusive steady states far…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Violeta Gotcheva , Yanting Wang , Albert T. J. Wang , S. Teitel

The energy-momentum dispersion of magnons, as collective low-energy excitations of magnetic material, is computed from an effective quantum spin Hamiltonian but simplified via linearized Holstein-Primakoff transformations to describe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-22 Federico Garcia-Gaitan , Ali Kefayati , John Q. Xiao , Branislav K. Nikolic

We have studied the electronic properties of ScS, a transition-metal monochalcogenide with rocksalt crystal structure, using magnetization, specific heat, transport, and muon spin rotation/relaxation ($\mu$SR) measurements. All measurements…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-17 Arushi , R. K. Kushwaha , D. Singh , A. D. Hillier , M. S. Scheurer , R. P. Singh

We study transmission of the terahertz radiation through a two-dimensional electron gas with a concentration controlled by grating gate electrodes. Voltage applied to these electrodes creates a lateral plasmonic crystal with a gate-tunable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 I. V. Gorbenko , V. Yu. Kachorovskii