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Periodically driven (Floquet) phases are attractive due to their ability to host unique physical phenomena with no static counterparts. We propose a general approach in nontrivially devising a square-root version of existing Floquet phases,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Raditya Weda Bomantara

Discrete time crystals are a special phase of matter in which time translational symmetry is broken through a periodic driving pulse. Here, we first propose and characterize an effective mechanism to generate a stable discrete time crystal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Rozhin Yousefjani , Krzysztof Sacha , Abolfazl Bayat

We study quantum Floquet (periodically-driven) systems having continuous dynamical symmetry (CDS) consisting of a time translation and a unitary transformation on the Hilbert space. Unlike the discrete ones, the CDS strongly constrains the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Yukio Kaneko , Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Non-equilibrium driving systems provide fertile ground for exploring intriguing spontaneous symmetry breaking phenomena. In this study, we report on the intertwined discrete spacetime translational symmetry breaking in a driven-dissipative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Xingdong Luo

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

"Floquet engineering" - designing band structures "on-demand" through the application of coherent time-periodic drives - has recently emerged as a powerful tool for creating new topological and anomalous phases of matter. In this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-16 Iliya Esin , Gaurav Kumar Gupta , Erez Berg , Mark S. Rudner , Netanel H. Lindner

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

Discrete time-crystals are periodically driven quantum many-body systems with broken discrete-time translational symmetry, a non-equilibrium steady state representing self-organization of motion of quantum particles. Observations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

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

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

Time crystals in periodically driven systems have initially been studied assuming either the ability to quench the Hamiltonian between different many-body regimes, the presence of disorder or long-range interactions. Here we propose the…

Time crystals are many-body systems that spontaneously break time-translation symmetry, and thus exhibit long-range spatiotemporal order and robust periodic motion. Recent results have demonstrated how to build time-crystal phases in driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez , C. Pérez-Espigares , P. I. Hurtado

We study the dynamics of atoms interacting periodically with a dissipative optical cavity and employ Floquet theory to analyze their low-frequency behavior. By means of an effective atom-only master equation, valid in the bad cavity regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Gage W. Harmon , Giovanna Morigi , Simon B. Jäger

We introduce a space-time Floquet operator, a generalization of the conventional Floquet operator, that captures the long-time behavior of space-time crystals - systems where spatial and temporal periodicities are intrinsically intertwined.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Abhijeet Melkani , Jayson Paulose

Boundary time crystals (BTC's) are non-equilibrium phases of matter occurring in quantum systems in contact to an environment, for which a macroscopic fraction of the many body system breaks time translation symmetry. We study BTC's in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-24 Luis Fernando dos Prazeres , Leonardo da Silva Souza , Fernando Iemini

We investigate how symmetries and conserved quantities relate to the occurrence of the boundary time crystal (BTC) phase in a generalized spin model with Lindblad dissipation. BTCs are a non-equilibrium phase of matter in which the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Giulia Piccitto , Matteo Wauters , Franco Nori , Nathan Shammah

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 consider the effects of leakage on the ability to realize a discrete time crystal (DTC) in a semiconductor quantum dot linear array being operated as a chain of singlet-triplet (ST) qubits. This system realizes an Ising model with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-26 Robert E. Throckmorton , S. Das Sarma

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 report the observation of a symmetry-protected topological time crystal, which is implemented with an array of programmable superconducting qubits. Unlike the time crystals reported in previous experiments, where spontaneous breaking of…