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Continuous time-translation symmetry is often spontaneously broken in open quantum systems, and the condition for their emergence has been actively investigated. However, there are only a few cases in which its condition for appearance has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Yuma Nakanishi , Ryo Hanai , Tomohiro Sasamoto

Discrete time quasicrystals (DTQC) constitute a class of non-equilibrium matter characterized by temporal order without strict periodicity, in contrast to conventional time crystals. Investigating these phenomena is essential for expanding…

Time-translation symmetry breaking is a mechanism for the emergence of non-stationary many-body phases, so-called time-crystals, in Markovian open quantum systems. Dynamical aspects of time-crystals have been extensively explored over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Mauro Antezza , Gabriele De Chiara

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

Discrete time crystals are periodically driven systems that display spontaneous symmetry breaking of time translation invariance in the form of indefinite subharmonic oscillations. We introduce a thermodynamically consistent model for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-20 Lukas Oberreiter , Udo Seifert , Andre C. Barato

Discrete time crystals are a many-body state of matter where the extensive system's dynamics are slower than the forces acting on it. Nowadays, there is a growing debate regarding the specific properties required to demonstrate such a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Toni L. Heugel , Matthias Oscity , Alexander Eichler , Oded Zilberberg , R. Chitra

Discrete time crystals are periodically driven systems characterized by a response with periodicity $nT$, with $T$ the period of the drive and $n>1$. Typically, $n$ is an integer and bounded from above by the dimension of the local (or…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-27 Andrea Pizzi , Johannes Knolle , Andreas Nunnenkamp

Quasiperiodic potentials and dipolar interactions each impose long-range order in quantum systems, but their interplay unlocks a rich landscape of unexplored quantum phases. In this work, we investigate how dipolar bosonic crystals respond…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-01 Paolo Molignini , Barnali Chakrabarti

Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which…

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…

Motivated by recent experimental findings, we investigate the possible occurrence and characteristics of quasicrystalline order in two-dimensional mixtures of point dipoles with two sorts of dipole moments. Despite the fact that the dipolar…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Falk Scheffler , Philipp Maass , Johannes Roth , Holger Stark

We consider the non-equilibrium behavior of a central spin system where the central spin is periodically reset to its ground state. The quantum mechanical evolution under this effectively dissipative dynamics is described by a discrete-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-01 Albert Cabot , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Investigation of states with a periodic time dependence of physical quantities attracts a considerable interest now. Although it has been proposed initially that such states (coined Quantum Time Crystals) might be macroscopic and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-07 Konstantin B. Efetov

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 show that optomechanical quantum systems can undergo dissipative phase transitions within the limit of small nonlinear interaction and strong external drive. In such a defined thermodynamical limit, the nonlinear interaction stabilizes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Fatemeh Bibak , Uroš Delić , Markus Aspelmeyer , Borivoje Dakić

We investigate the time-dependent, coherent, and dissipative dynamics of bound particles in single multilevel quantum dots in the presence of sequential tunnelling transport. We focus on the nonequilibrium regime where several channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Eduardo Vaz , Jordan Kyriakidis

Overdamped stochastic systems maintained far from equilibrium can display sustained oscillations with fluctuations that decrease with the system size. The correlation time of such noisy limit cycles expressed in units of the cycle period is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-31 Davide Santolin , Gianmaria Falasco

Despite being forbidden in equilibrium, spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry can occur in periodically driven, Floquet systems with discrete time-translation symmetry. The period of the resulting discrete time crystal is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-06-21 Norman Y. Yao , Andrew C. Potter , Ionut-Dragos Potirniche , Ashvin Vishwanath

We study prethermal time quasicrystalline (TQC) order in a quasiperiodically driven chain of non-interacting spin-1/2 particles. The drive consists of two parts, switched on and off periodically with frequency $\omega_d$: (i) disordered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-01 Davood Marripour , Jahanfar Abouie

Chaos is an inherently dynamical phenomenon traditionally studied for trajectories that are either permanently erratic or transiently influenced by permanently erratic ones lying on a set of measure zero. The latter gives rise to the final…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-12 Adilson E. Motter , Marton Gruiz , Gyorgy Karolyi , Tamas Tel