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A discrete time crystal is a recently discovered non-equilibrium phase of matter that has been shown to exist in disordered, periodically driven Ising spin chains. In this phase, if the system is initially prepared in one of a certain class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Edwin Barnes , John M. Nichol , Sophia E. Economou

In this paper, I present a mapping between representation of some quantum phenomena in one dimension and behavior of a classical time-dependent harmonic oscillator. For the first time, it is demonstrated that quantum tunneling can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 Alexander Davydov

In crystal optics the special status of the rest frame of the crystal means that space-time symmetry is less restrictive of electrodynamic phenomena than it is of static electromagnetic effects. A relativistic justification for this claim…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-28 Richard J. Potton

We study numerically the spatiotemporal dynamics in a ring network of nonlocally coupled nonlinear oscillators, each represented by a two-dimensional discrete-time model of the classical van der Pol oscillator. It is shown that the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-04-14 Elena Rybalova , Sishu Muni , Galina Strelkova

Quantum synchronization (QS) in dissipative systems is often inferred from smooth phase locking, leaving open whether its breakdown constitutes a genuine nonequilibrium transition. Here we introduce a Liouvillian framework that classifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Jun Wang , Shu Yang , Zeqing Wang , Ran Qi , Haiping Hu , Weidong Li , Jianwen Jie

We revisit the problem of quantum bi- and multi-stability by considering the dissipative Double Resonance Model. For a large driving frequency, this system has a simpler phase structure than the driven dissipative nonlinear oscillator --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Andrey R. Kolovsky

Classical Hamiltonian systems with conserved charges and those with constraints often describe dynamics on a pre-symplectic manifold. Here we show that a pre-symplectic manifold is also the proper stage to describe autonomous energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 Anton Alekseev , Dai Jin , Antti J. Niemi

Motivated by the Dirac idea that fundamental constant are dynamical variables and by conjectures on quantum structure of spacetime at small distances, we consider the possibility that Planck constant $\hbar$ is a time depending quantity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Gianpiero Mangano , Fedele Lizzi , Alberto Porzio

The dynamics of hybrid systems -- i.e. ones in which classical and quantum degrees of freedom co-exist and interact -- feature both diffusion in the classical sector and decoherence in the quantum state. In this article, we will consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Emanuele Panella

We report the first experimental observation of discrete time-crystal phases and crystallites in an actively mode-locked semiconductor laser. By tuning either the bias current or the modulation frequency, the system undergoes a spontaneous…

The breaking of the continuous time-translation symmetry manifests, in Markovian open quantum systems, through the emergence of non-stationary dynamical phases. Systems that display nonequilibrium transitions into these phases are referred…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-04 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

The steady states of dynamical processes can exhibit stable nontrivial phases, which can also serve as fault-tolerant classical or quantum memories. For Markovian quantum (classical) dynamics, these steady states are extremal eigenvectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Tibor Rakovszky , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Curt von Keyserlingk

The response of a tunable photonic oscillator, consisting of an Optically Injected Semiconductor Laser, under an injected Frequency Comb is considered with the utilization of the concept of the Time Crystal that has been widely used for the…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-03 Georgia Himona , Vassilios Kovanis , Yannis Kominis

We simulate the dynamics of paramagnetic colloidal particles that are placed above a magnetic hexagonal pattern and exposed to an external field periodically changing its direction along a control loop. The conformation of three colloidal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Adrian Ernst , Anna M. E. B. Rossi , Thomas M. Fischer

The status of classical stability in higher-derivative systems is still subject to discussions. In this note, we argue that, contrary to general belief, many higher-derivative systems are classically stable. The main tool to see this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Frédéric Dierick , Olivier White

Dissipative time crystals can appear in spin systems, when the $Z_2$ symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken by the environment, and the square of total spin operator $S^2$ is conserved. In this manuscript, we relax the latter condition and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Gianluca Passarelli , Procolo Lucignano , Rosario Fazio , Angelo Russomanno

The quantum theory of the damped harmonic oscillator has been a subject of continual investigation since the 1930s. The obstacle to quantization created by the dissipation of energy is usually dealt with by including a discrete set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. G. Philbin

In this paper, we show that time crystals can emerge in coupled exciton-polariton condensates without periodic external driving, enabled instead by incoherent gain and dissipation channels inherent to semiconductor microcavities. We present…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-15 Xuan Ye , Hong-Jin Xiong , Alexey Kavokin , Sanjib Ghosh

In this article, we formulate the study of the unitary time evolution of systems consisting of an infinite number of uncoupled time-dependent harmonic oscillators in mathematically rigorous terms. We base this analysis on the theory of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Daniel Gómez Vergel , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

Synchronization is a hallmark of collective behavior that emerges when nonlinear systems interact, spanning scales from mechanical oscillators to planetary orbits. As a universal phenomenon it underpins the study of complex systems and has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Jiarui Liu , Qiming Wu , Joel E. Moore , Hartmut Haeffner , Christopher W. Wächtler