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Periodically driven quantum systems, known as Floquet systems, have been a focus of non-equilibrium physics in recent years, thanks to their rich dynamics. Not only time-periodic systems exhibit symmetries similar to those in spatially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Guoqing Wang , Changhao Li , Paola Cappellaro

The concept of Hilbert space fragmentation (HSF) has recently been put forward as a routine to break quantum ergodicity. Although HSF exists widely in models with dynamical constraints, it is still challenging to tune it. Here, we propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Li Zhang , Yongguan Ke , Ling Lin , Chaohong Lee

We investigate the out-of-equilibrium properties of a system of interacting bosons in a ring lattice. We present a Floquet driving that induces clockwise (counterclockwise) circulation of the particles among the odd (even) sites of the ring…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-16 Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

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…

Time crystals are quantum many-body systems which are able to self-organize their motion in a periodic way in time. Discrete time crystals have been experimentally demonstrated in spin systems. However, the first idea of spontaneous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-16 Krzysztof Giergiel , Arkadiusz Kosior , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

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 show that in a one-dimensional translationally invariant tight binding chain, non-dispersing wave packets can in general be realized as Floquet eigenstates -- or linear combinations thereof -- using a spatially inhomogeneous drive, which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-03-19 Zhoushen Huang , Aashish Clerk , Ivar Martin

We show a dissipative phase transition in a driven nonlinear quantum oscillator in which a discrete time-translation symmetry is spontaneously broken in two different ways. The corresponding regimes display either discrete or incommensurate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Albert Cabot , Gianluca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

We study operator dynamics in many-body quantum systems, focusing on generic features of systems that are ergodic, spatially extended, and lack conserved densities. Quantum circuits of various types provide simple models for such systems.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-15 Takato Yoshimura , Samuel J. Garratt , J. T. Chalker

Time quasicrystals (TQCs) represent a compelling extension of the concept of time crystals (TCs). While TCs break discrete time-translation symmetry by exhibiting a periodic response at a subharmonic of the driving frequency, TQCs display a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-28 Davood Marripour , Jahanfar Abouie

We show that interacting bosons on a ring which are driven periodically by a rotating potential can support discrete time crystals whose absolute stability can be proven. The absolute stability is demonstrated by an exact mapping of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-29 Krzysztof Giergiel , Jia Wang , Bryan J. Dalton , Peter Hannaford , Krzysztof Sacha

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…

Dissipative phase transitions (DPTs) are traditionally characterized through the spectral properties of a time-independent Liouvillian superoperator. However, this definition cannot be applied to time-periodic (Floquet) systems that cannot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Alberto Mercurio , Vincenzo Macrì , Filippo Ferrari , Lorenzo Fioroni , Vincenzo Savona

We numerically investigate the stability and linear oscillatory behavior of a naturally diverging mass whose potential energy is harmonically modulated. It is known that in the Kapitza limit, i.e. when the period of modulation is much…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Arnaud Lazarus

We study the dynamics of the periodically driven Rydberg chain starting from the state with zero Rydberg excitations (vacuum state denoted by $|0\rangle$) using a square pulse protocol in the high drive amplitude limit. We show, using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-19 Bhaskar Mukherjee , Arnab Sen , Diptiman Sen , K. Sengupta

We consider a quantum system periodically driven with a strength which varies slowly on the scale of the driving period. The analysis is based on a general formulation of the Floquet theory relying on the extended Hilbert space. It is shown…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-02-22 Viktor Novičenko , Egidijus Anisimovas , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Discrete time crystals are novel phases of matter that break the discrete time translational symmetry of a periodically driven system. In this work, we propose a classical system of weakly-nonlinear parametrically-driven coupled oscillators…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Stuart Yi-Thomas , Jay D. Sau

Floquet time crystals are characterized by subharmonic behavior of temporal correlation functions. Studying the paradigmatic time crystal based on the disordered Floquet quantum Ising model, we show that its temporal spin correlations are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-27 Alexander-Georg Penner , Harald Schmid , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

Open quantum systems can display periodic dynamics at the classical level either due to external periodic modulations or to self-pulsing phenomena typically following a Hopf bifurcation. In both cases, the quantum fluctuations around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 C. Navarrete-Benlloch , R. Garcés , N. Mohseni , G. J. de Valcárcel

Time crystals spontaneously break the time translation symmetry, as recently has been frequently reported in quantum systems. Here we describe the observation of classical analogues of both 1+1-dimensional and 2+1-dimensional discrete…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Hanqing Zhao , Rui Zhang , Ivan I. Smalyukh