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We investigate the conditions under which periodically driven quantum systems subject to dissipation exhibit a stable subharmonic response. Noting that coupling to a bath introduces not only cooling but also noise, we point out that a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-08 Achilleas Lazarides , Sthitadhi Roy , Francesco Piazza , Roderich Moessner

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

We establish the existence of `time quasilattices' as stable trajectories in dissipative dynamical systems. These tilings of the time axis, with two unit cells of different durations, can be generated as cuts through a periodic lattice…

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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…

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We demonstrate the realization of a Discrete Time-Crystal (DTC) phase in a family of periodically driven, one-dimensional quadratic lattice Hamiltonians that can be obtained using spin chains. These interactions preserve integrability while…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-21 Rahul Chandra , Mahbub Rahaman , Soumyabroto Majumder , Analabha Roy , Sujit Sarkar

Motivated by experimental observations of time-symmetry breaking behavior in a periodically driven (Floquet) system, we study a one-dimensional spin model to explore the stability of such Floquet discrete time crystals (DTCs) under the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-25 Tian-Sheng Zeng , D. N. Sheng

The control of many-body quantum dynamics in complex systems is a key challenge in the quest to reliably produce and manipulate large-scale quantum entangled states. Recently, quench experiments in Rydberg atom arrays (Bluvstein et. al.,…

We present numerical simulations for a chiral soliton model with N=2,3 bosons in a ring, this being a few-particle version of our previous mean-field model for a quantum time crystal. Following Syrwid, Kosior, and Sacha (SKS), the notion is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-18 Patrik Öhberg , Ewan M Wright

A discrete time crystal (DTC) is a remarkable non-equilibrium phase of matter characterized by the persistent sub-harmonic oscillations of physical observables in periodically driven many-body systems. Motivated by the question of whether…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-10 Sk Anisur , W. Vincent Liu , Sayan Choudhury

Discrete time quasi-crystals are non-equilibrium quantum phenomena with quasi-periodic order in the time dimension, and are an extension of the discrete time-crystal phase. As a natural platform to explore the non-equilibrium phase of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Xiaofan Luo , Yaoting Zhou , Zhongxiao Xu , Weilun Jiang

We establish a link between metastability and a discrete time-crystalline phase in a periodically driven open quantum system. The mechanism we highlight requires neither the system to display any microscopic symmetry nor the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-10 F. M. Gambetta , F. Carollo , M. Marcuzzi , J. P. Garrahan , I. Lesanovsky

We show how a large family of interacting nonequilibrium phases of matter can arise from the presence of multiple time-translation symmetries, which occur by quasiperiodically driving an isolated quantum many-body system with two or more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Dominic V. Else , Wen Wei Ho , Philipp T. Dumitrescu

Time crystals, a unique non-equilibrium quantum phenomenon with promising applications in current quantum technologies, mark a significant advance in quantum mechanics. Although traditionally studied in atom-cavity and optical lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Subhajit Sarkar , Yonatan Dubi

Here we provide a theoretical framework to analyze discrete time-crystalline phases (DTC) in open quantum many-body systems. As a particular realization, we choose a quantum many-body system that exhibits cascaded prethermalization . The…

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Controlling the decoherence induced by the interaction of quantum system with its environment is a fundamental challenge in quantum technology. Utilizing Floquet theory, we explore the constructive role of temporal periodic driving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chong Chen , Jun-Hong An , Hong-Gang Luo , C. P. Sun , C. H. Oh

We consider an autonomous system of two coupled single-mode cavities, one of which interacts with a multimode resonator. We demonstrate that for small coupling strengths between single-mode cavities, the Loschmidt echo oscillates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 T. T. Sergeev , A. A. Zyablovsky , E. S. Andrianov

Clean and interacting periodically driven quantum systems are believed to exhibit a single, trivial "infinite-temperature" Floquet-ergodic phase. In contrast, here we show that their disordered Floquet many-body localized counterparts can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-23 Vedika Khemani , Achilleas Lazarides , Roderich Moessner , S. L. Sondhi

Continuous time crystals (CTCs) are characterized by sustained oscillations that break the time translation symmetry. Since the ruling out of equilibrium CTCs by no-go theorems, the emergence of such dynamical phases has been observed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ya-Xin Xiang , Qun-Li Lei , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

We show that a one-dimensional chain of trapped ions can be engineered to produce a quantum mechanical system with discrete scale invariance and fractal-like time dependence. By discrete scale invariance we mean a system that replicates…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-31 Dean Lee , Jacob Watkins , Dillon Frame , Gabriel Given , Rongzheng He , Ning Li , Bing-Nan Lu , Avik Sarkar