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Discrete (DTCs) and continuous time crystals (CTCs) are novel dynamical many-body states, that are characterized by robust self-sustained oscillations, emerging via spontaneous breaking of discrete or continuous time translation symmetry.…

Many complex systems can spontaneously oscillate under non-periodic forcing. Such self-oscillators are commonplace in biological and technological assemblies where temporal periodicity is needed, such as the beating of a human heart or the…

Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which…

We investigate the temporal dynamics of the PT-Symmetric nonlinear oscillators in the presence of Duffing nonlinearity for two forms of oscillator configuration. In the former, we consider two oscillator coupled to each other. One…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-10-20 Jyoti Prasad Deka

We investigate the transverse field Ising model subject to a two-step periodic driving protocol and quasiperiodic modulation of the Ising couplings. Analytical results on the phase boundaries associated with Majorana edge modes and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-11-17 Pengfei Liang , Rosario Fazio , Stefano Chesi

Nonlinear isolated and coupled oscillators are extensively studied as prototypical nonlinear dynamics models. Much attention has been devoted to oscillator synchronization or the lack thereof. Here, we study the synchronization and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-01-04 Golan Bel , Boian S. Alexandrov , Alan R. Bishop , Kim Ø. Rasmussen

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

We consider two identical oscillators with weak, time delayed coupling. We start with a general system of delay differential equations then reduce it to a phase model. With the assumption of large time delay, the resulting phase model has…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Isam Al-Darabsah , Sue Ann Campbell

Chimera states are a captivating occurrence in which a system composed of multiple interconnected elements exhibits a distinctive combination of synchronized and desynchronized behavior. The emergence of these states can be attributed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-27 Mahbub Rahaman , Akitada Sakurai , Analabha Roy

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…

Discrete dissipative coupled systems exhibit complex behavior such as chaos, spatiotemporal intermittence, chimera among others. We construct and investigate chimera states, in the form of confined stationary and dynamical states in a chain…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-05-05 A. M. Cabanas , J. A. Velez , L. M. Perez , P. Diaz , M. G. Clerc , D. Laroze , B. A. Malomed

In this work we discuss the existence of time-translation symmetry breaking in a kicked infinite-range-interacting clean spin system described by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model. This Floquet time crystal is robust under perturbations of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Angelo Russomanno , Fernando Iemini , Marcello Dalmonte , Rosario Fazio

Synchronization in quantum systems has been recently studied through persistent oscillations of local observables, which stem from undamped modes of the dissipative dynamics. However, the existence of such modes requires fine-tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yi J. Zhao , Joel E. Moore , Juzar Thingna , Christopher W. Wächtler

We define what it means for time translation symmetry to be spontaneously broken in a quantum system, and show with analytical arguments and numerical simulations that this occurs in a large class of many-body-localized driven systems with…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-31 Dominic V. Else , Bela Bauer , Chetan Nayak

We identify a time crystal phase characterized by a frequency half of the driving frequency in disordered superconductors by employing the time dependent Bogoliubov-de Gennes formalism at zero temperature with a periodically driven coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-11-21 Bo Fan , Zi Cai , Antonio M. García-García

We construct a class of period-$n$-tupling discrete time crystals based on $\mathbb{Z}_n$ clock variables, for all the integers $n$. We consider two classes of systems where this phenomenology occurs, disordered models with short-range…

Symmetric matrix-valued dynamical systems are an important class of systems that can describe important processes such as covariance/second-order moment processes, or processes on manifolds and Lie Groups. We address here the case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Corentin Briat

We study the dynamics of atoms interacting periodically with a dissipative optical cavity and employ Floquet theory to analyze their low-frequency behavior. By means of an effective atom-only master equation, valid in the bad cavity regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Gage W. Harmon , Giovanna Morigi , Simon B. Jäger

We analytically study the time evolution of the expectation values of observables in periodically kicked many-body quantum systems. Starting from an initial state, we compute both the transient and the long-time properties of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-05 Vijay Kumar , Dibyendu Roy

We introduce a new class of out-of-equilibrium noninteracting topological phases, the topological space-time crystals. These are time-dependent quantum systems which do not have discrete spatial translation symmetries, but instead are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Yang Peng