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Time crystals correspond to a phase of matter where time-translational symmetry (TTS) is broken. Up to date, they are well studied in open quantum systems, where external drive allows to break discrete TTS, ultimately leading to Floquet…

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We investigate an unconventional symmetry in time-periodically driven systems, the Floquet dynamical symmetry (FDS). Unlike the usual symmetries, the FDS gives symmetry sectors that are equidistant in the Floquet spectrum and protects…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-10 Koki Chinzei , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Discrete time crystal is a class of nonequilibrium quantum systems exhibiting subharmonic responses to external periodic driving. Here we propose a class of discrete time crystals enforced by nonsymmorphic dynamical symmetry. We start with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Zi-Ang Hu , Bo Fu , Xiao Li , Shun-Qing Shen

A state of an open quantum system is described by a density matrix, whose dynamics is governed by a Liouvillian superoperator. Within a general framework, we explore fundamental properties of both first-order dissipative phase transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-19 Fabrizio Minganti , Alberto Biella , Nicola Bartolo , Cristiano Ciuti

Time crystals are a phase of matter, for which the discrete time symmetry of the driving Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken. The breaking of discrete time symmetry has been observed in several experiments in driven spin systems. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-07 Jasper Smits , Lei Liao , Henk Stoof , Peter van der Straten

Nonequilibrium dissipative phase transition, arising from the competition of cooperative behavior and coherent field driving, discovered in the 1970s by Narducci et al. and Walls et al., has been found to exhibit time-crystal behavior when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Zhenghao Zhang , Qingtian Miao , G. S. Agarwal

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

We argue that time crystal properties naturally arise from phase-space noncommutative quantum mechanics. In order to exemplify our point we consider the 2-dimensional noncommutative quantum harmonic oscillator and show that it exibihits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Orfeu Bertolami , A. E. Bernardini

The objective of this article is to study the behavior of electromagnetic field under X-ray diffraction by time-dependent deformed crystals. Derived system of differential equations looks like the Takagi equations in the case of…

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In the thermodynamic limit, the steady states of open quantum many-body systems can undergo nonequilibrium phase transitions due to a competition between coherent and driven-dissipative dynamics. Here, we consider Markovian systems and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Thomas Barthel , Yikang Zhang

When the discrete time-translation symmetry of isolated, periodically driven systems is spontaneously broken, a new phase of matter can emerge. We review some recent developments on both the theoretical underpinnings and experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Norman Y. Yao , Chetan Nayak

The idea of breaking time-translation symmetry has fascinated humanity at least since ancient proposals of the perpetuum mobile. Unlike the breaking of other symmetries, such as spatial translation in a crystal or spin rotation in a magnet,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-28 Vedika Khemani , Roderich Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

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…

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

Despite its long history, a canonical formulation of quantum ergodicity that applies to general classes of quantum dynamics, including driven systems, has not been fully established. Here we introduce and study a notion of quantum…

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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

Discrete time crystals are a recently proposed and experimentally observed out-of-equilibrium dynamical phase of Floquet systems, where the stroboscopic evolution of a local observable repeats itself at an integer multiple of the driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-29 Zongping Gong , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda

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

Thermal behavior in subsystems of closed quantum systems is commonly attributed to dynamical chaos, quantum ergodicity, canonical typicality, or the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, suggesting a fundamentally statistical origin of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Uttam Singh , Nicolas J. Cerf