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 …

Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

Thermalization and prethermalization in isolated quantum systems: a theoretical overview

T Mori, TN Ikeda, E Kaminishi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is
among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have …

[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 …

Equilibration and order in quantum Floquet matter

R Moessner, SL Sondhi - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Equilibrium thermodynamics is characterized by two fundamental ideas: thermalization—
that systems approach a late time thermal state; and phase structure—that thermal states …

Universal many-body response of heavy impurities coupled to a Fermi sea: a review of recent progress

R Schmidt, M Knap, DA Ivanov, JS You… - Reports on Progress …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In this report we discuss the dynamical response of heavy quantum impurities immersed in a
Fermi gas at zero and at finite temperature. Studying both the frequency and the time …

Long-range prethermal phases of nonequilibrium matter

F Machado, DV Else, GD Kahanamoku-Meyer… - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We prove the existence of nonequilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of
periodically driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent α> d, where d …

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 …

Long-lived interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically driven systems

DV Else, WW Ho, PT Dumitrescu - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
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 …

Floquet prethermalization with lifetime exceeding 90 s in a bulk hyperpolarized solid

W Beatrez, O Janes, A Akkiraju, A Pillai, A Oddo… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We report the observation of long-lived Floquet prethermal states in a bulk solid composed
of dipolar-coupled C 13 nuclei in diamond at room temperature. For precessing nuclear …