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The compelling original idea of a time crystal has referred to a structure that repeats in time as well as in space, an idea that has attracted significant interest recently. While obstructions to realize such structures became apparent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-03 A. Kshetrimayum , J. Eisert , D. M. Kennes

It is well known that by repeatedly measuring a quantum system it is possible to completely freeze its dynamics into a well defined state, a signature of the quantum Zeno effect. Here we show that for a many-body system evolving under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Alberto Biella , Marco Schiró

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

Our understanding of phases of matter relies on symmetry breaking, one example being water ice whose crystalline structure breaks the continuous translation symmetry of space. Recently, breaking of time translation symmetry was observed in…

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 investigate the dynamics of a strongly interacting spin system that is motivated by current experimental realizations of strongly interacting Rydberg gases in lattices. In particular we are interested in the temporal evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 B. Olmos , R. González-Férez , I. Lesanovsky , L. Velázquez

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

In this work we introduce {\it boundary time-crystals}. Here {\it continuous} time-translation symmetry breaking occurs only in a macroscopic fraction of a many-body quantum system. After introducing their definition and properties, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 F. Iemini , A. Russomanno , J. Keeling , M. Schirò , M. Dalmonte , R. Fazio

The critical behaviour of 3-dimensional disordered systems in a strong magnetic field is investigated by analysing the spectral fluctuations of the energy spectrum. The level spacing distribution $P(s)$ as well the Dyson-Mehta statistics…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Hofstetter

Time crystals are many-body systems that spontaneously break time-translation symmetry, and thus exhibit long-range spatiotemporal order and robust periodic motion. Recent results have demonstrated how to build time-crystal phases in driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. I. Hurtado

Time crystals are many-body systems whose ground state spontaneously breaks time-translation symmetry and thus exhibits long-range spatiotemporal order and robust periodic motion. Using hydrodynamics, we have recently shown how an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-15 R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. I. Hurtado

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

Periodically driven quantum systems host a range of non-equilibrium phenomena which are unrealizable at equilibrium. Discrete time-translational symmetry in a periodically driven many-body system can be spontaneously broken to form a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 James O'Sullivan , Oliver Lunt , Christoph W. Zollitsch , M. L. W. Thewalt , John J. L. Morton , Arijeet Pal

In quantum mechanics, measurements are dynamical processes and thus they should be capable of inducing currents. The symmetries of the Hamiltonian and measurement operator provide an organizing principle for understanding the conditions for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Luka Antonic , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky , Ari M. Turner

We study measurement-induced phase transitions in quantum circuits consisting of kicked Ising models with postselected weak measurements, whose dynamics can be mapped onto a classical dynamical system. For a periodic (Floquet) non-unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Bastien Lapierre , Liang-Hong Mo , Shinsei Ryu

The spin-transfer torque from a DC spin-polarized current can generate highly-coherent magnetic precession in nanoscale magnetic-multilayer devices. By measuring linewidths of spectra from the resulting resistance oscillations, we argue…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. C. Sankey , I. N. Krivorotov , S. I. Kiselev , P. M. Braganca , N. C. Emley , R. A. Buhrman , D. C. Ralph

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

We show that the correlations in stochastic outputs of time-distributed weak measurements can be used to study the dynamics of an individual quantum object, with a proof-of-principle setup based on small Faraday rotation caused by a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-20 R. -B. Liu , Shu-Hong Fung , Hok-Kin Fung , A. N. Korotkov , L. J. Sham

Quantum measurement is physically realized through a finite dynamical interaction between a system and a measuring apparatus, giving rise to a continuous transition from weak to strong regimes. While this crossover is well understood under…

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea