Exact solution of a boundary time-crystal phase transition: time-translation symmetry breaking and non-markovian dynamics of correlations

F Carollo, I Lesanovsky - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
The breaking of the continuous time-translation symmetry manifests, in Markovian open
quantum systems, through the emergence of nonstationary dynamical phases. Systems that …

Symmetries and conserved quantities of boundary time crystals in generalized spin models

G Piccitto, M Wauters, F Nori, N Shammah - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We investigate how symmetries and conserved quantities relate to the occurrence of the
boundary time crystal (BTC) phase in a generalized spin model with Lindblad dissipation …

Non-stationarity and dissipative time crystals: spectral properties and finite-size effects

C Booker, B Buča, D Jaksch - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We discuss the emergence of non-stationarity in open quantum many-body systems. This
leads us to the definition of dissipative time crystals which display experimentally …

Dynamical phases and quantum correlations in an emitter-waveguide system with feedback

G Buonaiuto, F Carollo, B Olmos, I Lesanovsky - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We investigate the creation and control of emergent collective behavior and quantum
correlations using feedback in an emitter-waveguide system using a minimal model …

Biased ensembles of pulsating active matter

WD Piñeros, É Fodor - Physical Review Letters, 2025 - APS
We discover unexpected connections between packing configurations and rare fluctuations
in dense systems of active particles subject to pulsation of size. Using large deviation theory …

Exotic synchronization in continuous time crystals outside the symmetric subspace

P Solanki, M Krishna, M Hajdušek, C Bruder… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Exploring continuous time crystals (CTCs) within the symmetric subspace of spin systems
has been a subject of intensive research in recent times. Thus far, the stability of the time …

Large deviation full counting statistics in adiabatic open quantum dynamics

PJ Paulino, I Lesanovsky, F Carollo - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The state of an open quantum system undergoing an adiabatic process evolves by following
the instantaneous stationary state of its time-dependent generator. This observation allows …

Genuine multipartite correlations in a boundary time crystal

AC Lourenço, LF Prazeres, TO Maciel, F Iemini… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this paper we study genuine multipartite correlations (GMC's) in a boundary time crystal
(BTC). Boundary time crystals are nonequilibrium quantum phases of matter in contact to an …

Boundary time crystals in collective -level systems

LF Prazeres, LS Souza, F Iemini - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Boundary time crystals (BTC's) are nonequilibrium phases of matter occurring in quantum
systems in contact to an environment, for which a macroscopic fraction of the many-body …

Thermal melting of discrete time crystals: A dynamical phase transition induced by thermal fluctuations

M Yue, X Yang, Z Cai - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The stability of a discrete time crystal against thermal fluctuations has been studied
numerically by solving a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation of a periodically driven …