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Dissipative time crystals with long-range Lindbladians

Quantum Physics 2022-12-22 v3

Abstract

Dissipative time crystals can appear in spin systems, when the Z2Z_2 symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken by the environment, and the square of total spin operator S2S^2 is conserved. In this manuscript, we relax the latter condition and show that time-translation-symmetry breaking collective oscillations persist, in the thermodynamic limit, even in the absence of spin symmetry. We engineer an \textit{ad hoc} Lindbladian using power-law decaying spin operators and show that time-translation symmetry breaking appears when the decay exponent obeys 0<η10<\eta\leq 1. This model shows a surprisingly rich phase diagram, including the time-crystal phase as well as first-order, second-order, and continuous transitions of the fixed points. We study the phase diagram and the magnetization dynamics in the mean-field approximation. We prove that this approximation is quantitatively accurate, when 0<η10<\eta\leq1 and the thermodynamic limit is taken, because the system does not develop sizable quantum fluctuations, if the Gaussian approximation is considered.

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@article{arxiv.2208.11659,
  title  = {Dissipative time crystals with long-range Lindbladians},
  author = {Gianluca Passarelli and Procolo Lucignano and Rosario Fazio and Angelo Russomanno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.11659},
  year   = {2022}
}

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13 pages, 11 figures

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