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The interplay between many-body interactions and controlled dissipation provides a rich framework for exploring nonequilibrium quantum phases. In this work, we explore an open Dicke model including Rydberg-dressed interactions in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Haohang Zhou , Xianfeng Chen , Luqi Yuan

We analyze the fluctuations in particle positions and inter-particle forces in disordered jammed crystals in the limit of weak disorder. We demonstrate that such athermal systems are fundamentally different from their thermal counterparts,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-08 Pappu Acharya , Surajit Sengupta , Bulbul Chakraborty , Kabir Ramola

The notion of spontaneous symmetry breaking has been well established to characterize classical and quantum phase transitions of matter, such as in condensation, crystallization or quantum magnetism. Generalizations of this paradigm to the…

We prove the existence of non-equilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of periodically-driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent $\alpha > d$, where $d$ is the dimensionality of the system. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-25 Francisco Machado , Dominic V. Else , Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer , Chetan Nayak , Norman Y. Yao

We demonstrate that the prethermal regime of periodically driven (Floquet), classical many-body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we show that there exists an effective Hamiltonian that captures the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Bingtian Ye , Francisco Machado , Norman Y. Yao

We study Boundary time crystals (BTCs) in the presence of non-Markovian dynamics. In contrast to BTCs observed in earlier works in the Markovian regime, we show that non-Markovian dynamics can be highly beneficial for stabilizing BTCs over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Bandita Das , Rahul Ghosh , Victor Mukherjee

A combination of classical density-functional theory and thermodynamic perturbation theory is applied to a survey of finite-temperature trends in the relative stabilities of one-component crystals and quasicrystals interacting via effective…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 A. R. Denton , J. Hafner

Causal Dynamical Triangulations (CDT) is a lattice approach to quantum gravity. CDT has rich phase structure, including a semiclassical phase consistent with Einstein's general relativity. Some of the observed phase transitions are second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-04 Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki

Soft particles are known to overlap and form stable clusters that self-assemble into periodic crystalline phases with density-independent lattice constants. We use molecular dynamics simulations in two dimensions to demonstrate that,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-09-08 Kobi Barkan , Michael Engel , Ron Lifshitz

Time crystals are physical systems whose time translation symmetry is spontaneously broken. Although the spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry in static systems is proved impossible for the equilibrium state, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-19 Lingzhen Guo , Pengfei Liang

Understanding quantum dynamics away from equilibrium is an outstanding challenge in the modern physical sciences. It is well known that out-of-equilibrium systems can display a rich array of phenomena, ranging from self-organized…

Quantum phase transitions have been shown to be highly beneficial for quantum sensing, owing to diverging quantum Fisher information close to criticality. In this work we consider a periodically modulated Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model to show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Rahul Ghosh , Bandita Das , Victor Mukherjee

Understanding how temporal order degrades in quantum systems remains a central issue in nonequilibrium physics. Here we study the melting of discrete time crystals in a periodically driven holographic system, where a distinct (discrete)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Yu-Qi Lei , Xian-Hui Ge , Yu Tian , Shao-Feng Wu

We study transient thermal processes in infinite harmonic crystals with complex (polyatomic) lattice. Initially particles have zero displacements and random velocities such that distribution of temperature is spatially uniform. Initial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Vitaly A. Kuzkin

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

Discrete time quasi-crystals are non-equilibrium quantum phenomena with quasi-periodic order in the time dimension, and are an extension of the discrete time-crystal phase. As a natural platform to explore the non-equilibrium phase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Xiaofan Luo , Yaoting Zhou , Zhongxiao Xu , Weilun Jiang

We analyze a new class of time-periodic nonreciprocal dynamics in interacting chaotic classical spin systems, whose equations of motion are conservative (phase-space-volume-preserving) yet possess no symplectic structure. As a result, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-09 Adam J. McRoberts , Hongzheng Zhao , Roderich Moessner , Marin Bukov

One of the premier utilities of present day noisy quantum computers is simulation of many-body quantum systems. We study how long in time is such a discrete-time simulation representative of a continuous time Hamiltonian evolution, namely,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Marko Znidaric

We investigate the emergence of a myriad of phases in the strong coupling regime of the dipolar Hubbard model in two dimensions. By using a combination of numerically unbiased methods in finite systems with analytical perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-05 Tiago Mendes-Santos , Rubem Mondaini , Thereza Paiva , Raimundo R. dos Santos

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