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Time-crystals are nonequilibrium many-body phases in which the state of the system dynamically approaches a limit cycle. While these phases are recently in the focus of intensive research, it is still far from clear whether they can host…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-04-22 Robert Mattes , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

Floquet (periodically driven) systems can give rise to unique non-equilibrium phases of matter without equilibrium analogs. The most prominent example is the realization of discrete time crystals. An intriguing question emerges: what other…

We study the dynamics of a two-qubit system coupled through time dependent anisotropic $XYZ$ Heisenberg interaction in presence of a time varying non-uniform external magnetic field. Exact results are presented for the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-25 E. I. Lashin , Gehad Sadiek , M. Sebaweh Abdullah , Elham Aldufeery

We have identified ultra-cold atoms in magneto-optical double-well potentials as a very clean setting in which to study the quantum and classical dynamics of a nonlinear system with multiple degrees of freedom. In this system, entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shohini Ghose , Paul M. Alsing , Ivan H. Deutsch

Quantum systems driven by strong oscillating fields are the source of many interesting physical phenomena. In this work, we experimentally study the dynamics of a two-level system of a single spin driven in the strong-driving regime where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 K. Rama Koteswara Rao , Dieter Suter

The coupled electron-nuclear spin system in an InGaAs semiconductor as testbed of nonlinear dynamics can develop auto-oscillations, resembling time-crystalline behavior, when continuously excited by a circularly polarized laser. We expose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Alex Greilich , Nataliia E. Kopteva , Vladimir L. Korenev , Manfred Bayer

We analyze the dynamics of a single-level quantum dot with Coulomb interaction, weakly tunnel coupled to an electronic reservoir, after it has been brought out of equilibrium, e.g. by a step-pulse potential. We investigate the exponential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Debora Contreras-Pulido , Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Markus Büttiker

Time crystals are quantum many-body systems which are able to self-organize their motion in a periodic way in time. Discrete time crystals have been experimentally demonstrated in spin systems. However, the first idea of spontaneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-16 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kosior , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

A discrete time crystal is a recently discovered non-equilibrium phase of matter that has been shown to exist in disordered, periodically driven Ising spin chains. In this phase, if the system is initially prepared in one of a certain class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Edwin Barnes , John M. Nichol , Sophia E. Economou

We study the dynamical generation of entanglement for a very simple system: a pair of interacting spins, s1 and s2, in a constant magnetic field. Two different situations are considered:(a) s1 ->\infty, s2 = 1/2 and (b) s1 = s2 ->\infty,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcel Novaes

We study the dynamic behaviour of a quantum two-level system with periodically varying parameters by solving the master equation for the density matrix. Two limiting cases are considered: multiphoton Rabi oscillations and Landau-Zener…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-07-26 S. N. Shevchenko , A. S. Kiyko , A. N. Omelyanchouk , W. Krech

We consider a strongly driven two-level (spin) system, with a periodic external field that induces a sequence of avoided level crossings. The spin system interacts with a bosonic reservoir which leads to decoherence. A Markovian dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

Nonlinear spin systems exhibit rich and exotic dynamical phenomena, offering promising applications ranging from spin masers and time crystals to precision measurement. Recent theoretical work [T. Wang et al., Commun. Phys. 8, 41 (2025)]…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Xiaofan Wang , Haitao Lu , Hengyan Wang , Zhihuang Luo , Wenqiang Zheng

Time crystals, as temporal analogs of space crystals, manifest as stable and periodic behavior that breaks time translation symmetry. In an open quantum system, many-body interaction subjected to dissipation allows one to develop the time…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yuechun Jiao , Weilun Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jingxu Bai , Yunhui He , Heng Shen , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

Discrete time crystals are periodically driven systems characterized by a response with periodicity $nT$, with $T$ the period of the drive and $n>1$. Typically, $n$ is an integer and bounded from above by the dimension of the local (or…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-27 Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Time crystals are unexpected states of matter that spontaneously break time translation symmetry either in a discrete or continuous manner. However, spatially-mesoscale space-time crystals that break both the space and time symmetries have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Hanqing Zhao , Ivan I. Smalyukh

A time-dependent two interacting spin-qutrit model is analysed and solved. The two interacting qutrits are subjected to a longitudinal field linearly varying over time as in the Landau-Majorana-St\"uckelberg-Zener (LMSZ) scenario. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 R. Grimaudo , N. V. Vitanov , A. Messina

Quantum collision models allow for the dynamics of open quantum systems to be described by breaking the environment into small segments, typically consisting of non-interacting harmonic oscillators or two-level systems. This work introduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Anton Corr , Stefano Cusumano , Gabriele De Chiara

Although classical nonlinear dynamics suggests that sufficiently strong nonlinearity can sustain oscillations, quantization of such model typically yields a time-independent steady state that respects time-translation symmetry and thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Song-hai Li , Najmeh Es'haqi-Sani , Xingli Li , Wenlin Li

Periodically-driven open quantum systems that never thermalize exhibit a discrete time-crystal behavior, a non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon that has shown promise in quantum information processing applications. Measurements of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi