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Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-independent or periodically forced quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification of discrete time translation symmetry in a periodically driven…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-01 Hossein Taheri , Andrey B. Matsko , Lute Maleki , Krzysztof Sacha

Periodically driven thermodynamic systems support stable non-equilibrium oscillating states with properties drastically different from equilibrium. They exhibit even more exotic features for low viscous drives, which is a regime that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-27 Shakul Awasthi , Sreedhar B. Dutta

Relaxation dynamics of complex many-body quantum systems brought out of equilibrium and subsequently trapped into metastable states is a very active field of research from both the theoretical and experimental point of view with…

The periodically driven quantum Ising chain has recently attracted a large attention in the context of Floquet engineering. In addition to the common paramagnet and ferromagnet, this driven model can give rise to new topological phases. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-07-26 Angelo Russomanno , Bat-el Friedman , Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Periodically driven quantum systems host exotic phenomena which often do not have any analog in undriven systems. Floquet prethermalization and dynamical freezing of certain observables, via the emergence of conservation laws, are realized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-19 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Ronald Melendrez , Marcin Szyniszewski , Hitesh J. Changlani , Arijeet Pal

A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

We introduce a boundary condition twisted by time translation as a novel probe to characterize dynamical phases in periodically driven (Floquet) quantum systems. Inspired by twisted boundary conditions in equilibrium systems, this approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-17 Ryota Nakai , Taozhi Guo , Shinsei Ryu

We study the dynamics of the periodically driven Rydberg chain starting from the state with zero Rydberg excitations (vacuum state denoted by $|0\rangle$) using a square pulse protocol in the high drive amplitude limit. We show, using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Arnab Sen , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

We develop a flow renormalization approach for periodically-driven quantum systems, which reveals prethermal dynamical regimes and associated timescales via direct correspondence between real time and flow time behavior. In this formalism,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Martin Claassen

Periodically driven closed quantum many-body systems are known to exhibit prethermal or quasi-steady-state dynamics. In this work, we theoretically show that such prethermal phases can appear in the dynamics of a dipolar two-spin-$1/2$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-28 Arnab Chakrabarti , Rangeet Bhattacharyya

Periodic (Floquet) driving enables Hamiltonian engineering and nonequilibrium phases, but interacting systems eventually heat by absorbing energy from the drive. Disorder can greatly delay this process, yielding long-lived prethermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Cooper M. Selco , Christian Bengs , Chaitali Shah , Ashok Ajoy

We discuss the behavior of general Floquet time crystals (FTCs), including prethermal ones, in closed systems acting as AC sensors. We provide an analytical treatment of their quantum Fisher information (QFI) dynamics, which characterizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Andrei Tsypilnikov , Matheus Fibger , Fernando Iemini

A time crystal is a state of periodically driven matter which breaks discrete time translation symmetry. Time crystals have been demonstrated experimentally in various programmable quantum simulators and exemplify how non-equilibrium,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-21 Andrew Stasiuk , Paola Cappellaro

Systems subject to a high-frequency drive can spend an exponentially long time in a prethermal regime, in which novel phases of matter with no equilibrium counterpart can be realized. Due to the notorious computational challenges of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Andrea Pizzi , Andreas Nunnenkamp , Johannes Knolle

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are manifested by time-domain nonanalytic behaviors of many-body systems.Introducing a quench is so far understood as a typical scenario to induce DQPTs.In this work, we discover a novel type of…

We analyze the quantum dynamics of periodically driven, disordered systems in the presence of long-range interactions. Focusing on the stability of discrete time crystalline (DTC) order in such systems, we use a perturbative procedure to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-07-10 Wen Wei Ho , Soonwon Choi , Mikhail D. Lukin , Dmitry A. Abanin

A theoretical study is reported of electron transport at finite temperature in a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC). Starting from a Hamiltonian model, a master equation is obtained for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller , Pierre Gaspard

We study the dynamics of a class of integrable non-Hermitian free-fermionic models driven periodically using a continuous drive protocol characterized by an amplitude $g_1$ and frequency $\omega_D$. We derive an analytic, albeit…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-12 Tista Banerjee , K. Sengupta

The search for exotic temporal orders in quantum matter, such as discrete quasi-time crystals (DQTCs), has become an important theme in nonequilibrium physics. However, realizing these phases has so far required complex protocols, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Xu Feng , Shuo Liu , Shu Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) are characterized by nonanalytic behaviors of physical observables as functions of time. When a system is subject to time-periodic modulations, the nonanalytic signatures of its observables could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Longwen Zhou , Qianqian Du