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A tremendous amount of recent attention has focused on characterizing the dynamical properties of periodically driven many-body systems. Here, we use a novel numerical tool termed `density matrix truncation' (DMT) to investigate the…

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Floquet (periodic) driving has recently emerged as a powerful technique for engineering quantum systems and realizing non-equilibrium phases of matter. A central challenge to stabilizing quantum phenomena in such systems is the need to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Guanghui He , Bingtian Ye , Ruotian Gong , Zhongyuan Liu , Kater W. Murch , Norman Y. Yao , Chong Zu

The stability of a discrete time crystal against thermal fluctuations has been studied numerically by solving a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of a periodically-driven classical system composed of interacting spins, each of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-24 Mingxi Yue , Xiaoqin Yang , Zi Cai

Various exotic topological phases of Floquet systems have been shown to arise from crystalline symmetries. Yet, a general theory for Floquet topology that is applicable to all crystalline symmetry groups is still in need. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Jiabin Yu , Rui-Xing Zhang , Zhi-Da Song

We investigate the discrete time crystal (DTC) phase in a qubit ensemble, periodically driven by its interaction with either a photon or a transmon field, which is prone to dissipative leakage. We find this DTC to be robust against changes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tanaya Ray , Shuva Mondal , Ujjwal Sen

We study the prethermal Floquet phases of a two-dimensional (2D) Rydberg atom array on a rectangular lattice in the presence of a periodic drive with large drive amplitude. We derive an analytic, albeit perturbative, Floquet Hamiltonian…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-26 Somsubhra Ghosh , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

We reveal a continuous dynamical heating transition between a prethermal and an infinite-temperature stage in a clean, chaotic periodically driven classical spin chain. The transition time is a steep exponential function of the drive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-21 Owen Howell , Phillip Weinberg , Dries Sels , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Marin Bukov

Time crystals are genuinely non-equilibrium quantum phases of matter that break time-translational symmetry. While in non-equilibrium closed systems time crystals have been experimentally realized, it remains an open question whether or not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Maria Moreno-Cardoner , Anna Sanpera

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

This study aims to provide evidence regarding the emergence of a class of dissipative time crystals when $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry of the systems is restored in collective spin systems with Lindblad dynamics. First, we show that a standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Yuma Nakanishi , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Driven systems offer the potential to realize a wide range of non-equilibrium phenomena that are inaccessible in static systems, such as the discrete time crystals. Time rondeau crystals with a partial temporal order have been proposed as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Zhuocheng Ma , Jin Yan , Hongzheng Zhao , Liang-You Peng

We analyse quasi-periodically driven quantum systems that can be mapped exactly to periodically driven ones and find Floquet Time Spirals in analogy with spatially incommensurate spiral magnetic states. Generalising the mechanism to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-10-09 Hongzheng Zhao , Florian Mintert , Johannes Knolle

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Valerii K. Kozin , Oleksandr Kyriienko

Driven-dissipative many-body system supports nontrivial quantum phases absent in equilibrium. As a prominent example, the interplay between coherent driving and collective dissipation can lead to a dynamical quantum phase that spontaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Zhuqing Wang , Ruochen Gao , Xiaoling Wu , Berislav Buča , Klaus Mølmer , Li You , Fan Yang

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…

Floquet driven systems represent an extremely interesting arena to study out-of-equilibrium phenomena. For instance, they provide realizations of discrete time crystals, where the discrete time translation symmetry of the periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 J. R. M. de Nova , F. Sols

Continuous time crystal (CTC) and quasi-crystal (CTQC) are two novel phases of matter characterized by the spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry. To date, realizations of CTCs with periodic oscillations have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-02 Ying Huang , Tishuo Wang , Haochuan Yin , Min Jiang , Zhihuang Luo , Xinhua Peng

Periodically driven systems, or Floquet systems, exhibit many novel dynamics and interesting out-of-equilibrium phases of matter. Those phases arising with the quantum systems' symmetries, such as global $U(1)$ symmetry, can even show…

Time crystals form when arbitrary physical states of a periodically driven system spontaneously break discrete time-translation symmetry. We introduce one-dimensional time-crystalline topological superconductors, for which time-translation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Aaron Chew , David F. Mross , Jason Alicea

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