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Time crystalline structures can be created in periodically driven systems. They are temporal lattices which can reveal different condensed matter behaviours ranging from Anderson localization in time to temporal analogues of many-body…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-24 Krzysztof Giergiel , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

Quantum phase transitions have been shown to be highly beneficial for quantum sensing, owing to diverging quantum Fisher information close to criticality. In this work we consider a periodically modulated Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model to show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rahul Ghosh , Bandita Das , Victor Mukherjee

We study discrete time crystal formation in a system driven periodically by an oscillating atomic mirror, consisting of two distinct ultracold atomic clouds in the presence of a gravitational field. The intra-species interactions are weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-30 Weronika Golletz , Krzysztof Sacha

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide a unifying framework for nonlinear optical physics with photonic-integrated technologies and have recently been employed in a wide range of applications from coherent…

We establish the existence of `time quasilattices' as stable trajectories in dissipative dynamical systems. These tilings of the time axis, with two unit cells of different durations, can be generated as cuts through a periodic lattice…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-07-04 Felix Flicker

The conventional framework for defining and understanding phases of matter requires thermodynamic equilibrium. Extensions to non-equilibrium systems have led to surprising insights into the nature of many-body thermalization and the…

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

We discuss the emergence of non-stationarity in open quantum many-body systems. This leads us to the definition of dissipative time crystals which display experimentally observable, persistent, time-periodic oscillations induced by noisy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Cameron Booker , Berislav Buča , Dieter Jaksch

The control of many-body quantum dynamics in complex systems is a key challenge in the quest to reliably produce and manipulate large-scale quantum entangled states. Recently, quench experiments in Rydberg atom arrays (Bluvstein et. al.,…

Driven systems offer the potential to realize a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena that are inaccessible in static systems, such as the discrete time crystals. Time rondeau crystals with a partial temporal order have been proposed as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhuocheng Ma , Jin Yan , Hongzheng Zhao , Liang-You Peng

Boundary time crystals (BTC's) are non-equilibrium phases of matter occurring in quantum systems in contact to an environment, for which a macroscopic fraction of the many body system breaks time translation symmetry. We study BTC's in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-24 Luis Fernando dos Prazeres , Leonardo da Silva Souza , Fernando Iemini

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…

An ergodic system subjected to an external periodic drive will be generically heated to infinite temperature. However, if the applied frequency is larger than the typical energy scale of the local Hamiltonian, this heating stops during a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

Dissipative phase transitions (DPT) are defined by sudden changes in the physical properties of nonequilibrium open quantum systems and they present characteristics that have no analog in closed and thermal systems. Several methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Masataka Matsumoto , Zi Cai , Matteo Baggioli

We develop and study an atom-only description of the Dicke model with time-periodic couplings between atoms and a dissipative cavity mode. The cavity mode is eliminated giving rise to effective atom-atom interactions and dissipation. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Simon B. Jäger , Jan Mathis Giesen , Imke Schneider , Sebastian Eggert

Time crystals in periodically driven systems have initially been studied assuming either the ability to quench the Hamiltonian between different many-body regimes, the presence of disorder or long-range interactions. Here we propose the…

Time crystals appear when systems display a commensurate spontaneous breaking of the discrete time translational invariance imposed by an external periodic drive. No consensus on the definition has been reached as yet, but important aspects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Robin Schäfer , Götz S. Uhrig , Joachim Stolze

In this paper, we show that time crystals can emerge in coupled exciton-polariton condensates without periodic external driving, enabled instead by incoherent gain and dissipation channels inherent to semiconductor microcavities. We present…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-15 Xuan Ye , Hong-Jin Xiong , Alexey Kavokin , Sanjib Ghosh

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…

We investigate the conditions under which periodically driven quantum systems subject to dissipation exhibit a stable subharmonic response. Noting that coupling to a bath introduces not only cooling but also noise, we point out that a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-08 Achilleas Lazarides , Sthitadhi Roy , Francesco Piazza , Roderich Moessner