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Recovering properties of correlation functions is typically challenging. On one hand, experimentally, it requires measurements with a temporal resolution finer than the system's dynamics. On the other hand, analytical or numerical analysis…

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Many-body quantum systems can exhibit collective effects that enhance the sensitivity of parameter estimation protocols. An example is provided by resonantly driven two-level atoms subject to collective dissipation, which can display a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Albert Cabot , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

A dissipative time crystal is an emergent phase in driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems, characterized by sustained oscillations that break time-translation symmetry spontaneously. Here, we explore nonequilibrium phase transitions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-09 Yunlong Xue , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

Time crystals are quantum many-body systems which, due to interactions between particles, are able to spontaneously self-organize their motion in a periodic way in time by analogy with the formation of crystalline structures in space in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-04 Krzysztof Giergiel , Artur Miroszewski , Krzysztof Sacha

Time crystals are classified into discrete time crystals and continuous time crystals based on whether they spontaneously break time-translation symmetry. Continuous-time crystals do not require external driving. By introducing AdS/CFT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Ximo Wang , Qiwei Han , Zhenqi Bai , Hongyan Fan , Yichi Zhang

Boundary time crystals exhibit spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry through persistent periodic oscillations in driven-dissipative many-body systems. Here, we show that multilevel interference provides a natural…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Kang Shen , Xiangming Hu , Fei Wang

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

In this work we study genuine multipartite correlations (GMC's) in a boundary time crystal (BTC). Boundary time crystals are nonequilibrium quantum phases of matter in contact to an environment, for which a macroscopic fraction of the…

Super-Heisenberg scaling, which scales as $N^{-\beta}$ with $\beta>1$ in terms of the number of particles $N$ or $T^{-\beta}$ in terms of the evolution time $T$, is better than Heisenberg scaling in quantum metrology. It has been proven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu

Time crystals, a unique non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon with promising applications in current quantum technologies, mark a significant advance in quantum mechanics. Although traditionally studied in atom-cavity and optical lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

This dissertation presents and prove the viability of a non-standard method for controlling the state of a quantum system by modifying its boundary conditions instead of relying on the action of external fields. The standard approach to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Aitor Balmaseda

This work proposes an answer to a challenge posed by Bell on the lack of clarity in regards to the line between the quantum and classical regimes in a measurement problem. To this end, a generalized logarithmic nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Antonio B. Nassar , Salvador Miret-Artés

Strong measurements usually restrict the dynamics of measured finite dimensional systems to the Zeno subspace, where subsequent evolution is unitary due to the suppression of dissipative terms. Here we show qualitatively different behaviour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Midhun Krishna , Parvinder Solanki , Michal Hajdušek , Sai Vinjanampathy

The continuous monitoring of driven-dissipative systems offers new avenues for quantum advantage in metrology. This approach mixes temporal and spatial correlations in a manner distinct from traditional metrology, leading to ambiguities in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-08 Gideon Lee , Ron Belyansky , Liang Jiang , Aashish A. Clerk

Boundary time crystals exhibit measurement-induced phase transitions in their steady-state entanglement, with critical behavior that depends on the particular unraveling of the Lindblad dynamics. In this work, we investigate another key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Gianluca Passarelli , Angelo Russomanno , Procolo Lucignano

Time crystals are quantum systems which are able to reveal condensed matter behavior in the time domain. It is known that crystalization in time can be observed in a periodically driven many-body system when interactions between particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-02 Pawel Matus , Krzysztof Sacha

Quantum phenomena offer the possibility of measuring physical quantities with precision beyond classical limits. However, current progress is constrained by scalability, environmental noise, and challenges in practical integration. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 George Mihailescu , Uesli Alushi , Roberto Di Candia , Simone Felicetti , Karol Gietka

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

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

We consider a dynamic protocol for quantum many-body systems, which enables to study the interplay between unitary Hamiltonian driving and random local projective measurements. While the unitary dynamics tends to increase entanglement,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari