English
Related papers

Related papers: Tunable discrete quasi-time crystal from a single …

200 papers

Time-variant systems have recently garnered considerable attention due to their unique potentials in manipulating electromagnetic waves. Here, a novel class of topological spacetime crystals is introduced, with a traveling-wave modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

The addition of uniaxial random fields to the XY model induces an order-by disorder transition, in which the XY magnet develops a spontaneous magnetization in the direction perpendicular to the uniaxial random field. Here, we use…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-25 Sayan Basak , Karin A. Dahmen , Erica W. Carlson

We propose schemes to design and control a time-dependent decoherence-free subspace (DFS) in a dissipative atom-cavity system. These schemes use atoms with three internal energy levels, which allows for the DFS to be multi-dimensional--a…

Time crystals, as temporal analogs of space crystals, manifest as stable and periodic behavior that breaks time translation symmetry. In an open quantum system, many-body interaction subjected to dissipation allows one to develop the time…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yuechun Jiao , Weilun Jiang , Yu Zhang , Jingxu Bai , Yunhui He , Heng Shen , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

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

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

Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting class of such systems is those which do not thermalize under…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-10-05 Dominic V. Else , Christopher Monroe , Chetan Nayak , Norman Y. Yao

We show that it is possible to clone quantum states to arbitrary accuracy in the presence of a Deutschian closed timelike curve (D-CTC), with a fidelity converging to one in the limit as the dimension of the CTC system becomes large---thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-31 Todd A. Brun , Mark M. Wilde , Andreas Winter

A time crystal is an exotic phase of matter where time-translational symmetry is broken; this phase differs from the spatial symmetry breaking induced in crystals in space. Lots of experiments report the transition from a thermal…

We propose an experiment with a driven quantum gas coupled to a dissipative optical cavity that realizes a novel kind of far-from-equilibrium phase transition between spatial and temporal order. The control parameter of the transition is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhao Zhang , Davide Dreon , Tilman Esslinger , Dieter Jaksch , Berislav Buca , Tobias Donner

A dissipative time crystal is an emergent phase in driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems, characterized by sustained oscillations that break time-translation symmetry spontaneously. Here, we explore nonequilibrium phase transitions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-09 Yunlong Xue , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

The coherence times achieved with continuous dynamical decoupling techniques are often limited by fluctuations in the driving amplitude. In this work, we use time-dependent phase-modulated continuous driving to increase the robustness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 D. Farfurnik , N. Aharon , I. Cohen , Y. Hovav , A. Retzker , N. Bar-Gill

The conventional characterization of periodically driven systems usually necessitates the time-domain information beyond Floquet bands, hence lacking universal and direct schemes of measuring Floquet topological invariants. Here we propose…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-28 Long Zhang , Lin Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Time crystals are classified as discrete or continuous depending on whether they spontaneously break discrete or continuous time translation symmetry. While discrete time crystals have been extensively studied in periodically driven systems…

Continuous time crystals, i.e., nonequilibrium phases with a spontaneously broken continuous time-translational symmetry, have been studied and recently observed in the long-time dynamics of open quantum systems. Here, we investigate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Felix Russo , Thomas Pohl

The development of modular and versatile quantum interconnect hardware is a key next step in the scaling of quantum information platforms to larger size and greater functionality. For superconducting quantum systems, fast and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-04 Daniel L. Campbell , Archana Kamal , Leonardo Ranzani , Michael Senatore , Matthew LaHaye

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) are signified by recurrent nonanalytic behaviors of observables in time. In this work, we introduce a quench-free and generic approach to engineer and control FDQPTs for both pure and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-30 J. Naji , R. Jafari , Longwen Zhou , A. Langari

Discrete time crystals are non-equilibrium phases of matter in periodically driven systems, characterized by robust subharmonic oscillations and broken discrete time-translation symmetry. Their long-lived coherent dynamics and resilience to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rozhin Yousefjani , Shaikha Al-Naimi , Saif Al-Kuwari , Abolfazl Bayat

One major objective of controlling classical chaotic dynamical systems is exploiting the system's extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in order to arrive at a predetermined target state. In a recent letter [Phys.~Rev.~Lett. 130, 020201…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Steven Tomsovic , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…