Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals

MP Zaletel, M Lukin, C Monroe, C Nayak, F Wilczek… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry has led to the discovery of a new
phase of matter: the discrete time crystal. Discrete time crystals exhibit rigid subharmonic …

Long-range interacting quantum systems

N Defenu, T Donner, T Macrì, G Pagano, S Ruffo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
In this review recent investigations are summarized of many-body quantum systems with
long-range interactions, which are currently realized in Rydberg atom arrays, dipolar …

[HTML][HTML] Out-of-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems with long-range interactions

N Defenu, A Lerose, S Pappalardi - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Experimental progress in atomic, molecular, and optical platforms in the last decade has
stimulated strong and broad interest in the quantum coherent dynamics of many long-range …

Higher-order and fractional discrete time crystals in Floquet-driven Rydberg atoms

B Liu, LH Zhang, QF Wang, Y Ma, TY Han… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Higher-order and fractional discrete time crystals (DTCs) are exotic phases of matter where
the discrete time translation symmetry is broken into higher-order and non-integer category …

Quantum metrology with boundary time crystals

V Montenegro, MG Genoni, A Bayat… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum sensing is one of the arenas that exemplifies the superiority of quantum
technologies over their classical counterparts. Such superiority, however, can be diminished …

All-optical dissipative discrete time crystals

H Taheri, AB Matsko, L Maleki, K Sacha - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-
independent or periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification …

Classical prethermal phases of matter

A Pizzi, A Nunnenkamp, J Knolle - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Systems subject to a high-frequency drive can spend an exponentially long time in a
prethermal regime, in which novel phases of matter with no equilibrium counterpart can be …

Discrete time-crystalline order enabled by quantum many-body scars: Entanglement steering via periodic driving

N Maskara, AA Michailidis, WW Ho, D Bluvstein… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
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 …

Bifurcation of time crystals in driven and dissipative Rydberg atomic gas

B Liu, LH Zhang, Y Ma, QF Wang, TY Han… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
A time crystal is an exotic phase of matter where time-translational symmetry is broken; this
phase differs from the spatial symmetry breaking induced in conventional crystals. Lots of …

Floquet time crystals as quantum sensors of ac fields

F Iemini, R Fazio, A Sanpera - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The long-range spatial and temporal ordering displayed by discrete time crystals, can
become advantageous properties when used for sensing extremely weak signals. Here, we …