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Understanding how temporal order degrades in quantum systems remains a central issue in nonequilibrium physics. Here we study the melting of discrete time crystals in a periodically driven holographic system, where a distinct (discrete)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge , Yu Tian , Shao-Feng Wu

We propose periodic driving protocols to realize discrete time crystals (DTCs) in a spin-s central spin model. Interestingly, we identify parameter regimes, where eternal period-doubling and higher-order(HO)-DTCs can be realized, even for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Hillol Biswas , Sayan Choudhury

The spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry in periodically driven quantum systems leads to a new phase of matter: discrete time crystals (DTC). This phase exhibits collective subharmonic oscillations that depend upon an interplay…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-21 Norman Y. Yao , Chetan Nayak , Leon Balents , Michael P. Zaletel

We discuss the emergence of spontaneous synchronization for an open spin-pair system interacting only via a common environment. Under suitable conditions, and even in the presence of detuning between the natural precession frequencies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 G. L. Giorgi , F. Plastina , G. Francica , R. Zambrini

We work with infinite, closed, translation-invariant, finite-range lattice systems with "unbounded classical spins", also known as anharmonic crystals, under assumptions close to those used by Lanford, Lebowitz and Lieb (J. Stat. Phys.,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Gaia Pozzoli , Renaud Raquépas

We explore the synchronization phenomenon in the quantum few-body system of spins with the non-local dissipation. Without the external driving, we find that the system can exhibit stable oscillatory behaviors in the long-time dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-03 Xingli Li , Yan Li , Jiasen Jin

We consider the dynamics of spin facilitated models of glasses in the non-equilibrium aging regime following a sudden quench from high to low temperatures. We briefly review known results obtained for the broad class of kinetically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sebastien Leonard , Peter Mayer , Peter Sollich , Ludovic Berthier , Juan P. Garrahan

We show that an ultra-cold atomic cloud bouncing on an oscillating mirror can reveal spontaneous breaking of a discrete time translation symmetry. In many-body simulations we illustrate the process of the symmetry breaking that can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-11 Krzysztof Sacha

Between space crystals and amorphous materials there exists a third class of aperiodic structures which lack translational symmetry but reveal long-range order. They are dubbed quasi-crystals and their formation, similarly as the formation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kuroś , Krzysztof Sacha

Periodically driven quantum systems manifest various non-equilibrium features which are absent at equilibrium. For example, discrete time-translation symmetry can be broken in periodically driven quantum systems leading to an exotic phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 C. M. Dai , Z. C. Gu , X. X. Yi

Discrete time crystals are a recently proposed and experimentally observed out-of-equilibrium dynamical phase of Floquet systems, where the stroboscopic evolution of a local observable repeats itself at an integer multiple of the driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-29 Zongping Gong , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

We extend the coupled-wire construction of quantum Hall phases, and search for fractional topological insulating states in models of weakly coupled wires at zero external magnetic field. Focussing on systems beyond double copies of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Tobias Meng , Eran Sela

The spins of gaseous alkali atoms are commonly assumed to oscillate at a constant hyperfine frequency, which for many years has been used to define the Second. Indeed, under standard experimental conditions, the spins oscillate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Or Katz , Ofer Firstenberg

We demonstrate the realization of a Discrete Time-Crystal (DTC) phase in a family of periodically driven, one-dimensional quadratic lattice Hamiltonians that can be obtained using spin chains. These interactions preserve integrability while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Rahul Chandra , Mahbub Rahaman , Soumyabroto Majumder , Analabha Roy , Sujit Sarkar

Floquet driven systems represent an extremely interesting arena to study out-of-equilibrium phenomena. For instance, they provide realizations of discrete time crystals, where the discrete time translation symmetry of the periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 J. R. M. de Nova , F. Sols

We discuss general properties of discrete time quantum symmetry breaking in degenerate parametric oscillators. Recent experiments in superconducting quantum circuit with Josephson junction nonlinearities give rise to new properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Feng-Xiao Sun , Qiongyi He , Qihuang Gong , Run Yan Teh , Margaret D. Reid , Peter D. Drummond

We investigate theoretically the time evolution of a one-dimensional system of spin-1/2 fermions in a harmonic trap after, initially, a spiral spin configuration far-from equilibrium is created. We predict a spin segregation building up in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-30 Ulrich Ebling , Andre Eckardt , Maciej Lewenstein

We studied the non-equilibrium short-time dynamics of a spin-1/2 chain with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions after a sudden quench by a transverse field. We found that inhomogeneous spin-spirals with opposite chiralities propagate from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-26 E. Solano-Carrillo , R. Franco , J. Silva-Valencia

Nonreciprocal nonequilibrium process are attracting growing interest in sociology, animal behaviour, chemistry, and nanotechnology, and may have played a role in the origin of life. It is less widely recognized, however, that in open…

Floquet time crystals are characterized by subharmonic behavior of temporal correlation functions. Studying the paradigmatic time crystal based on the disordered Floquet quantum Ising model, we show that its temporal spin correlations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Alexander-Georg Penner , Harald Schmid , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen