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 …

Strongly correlated electron–photon systems

J Bloch, A Cavalleri, V Galitski, M Hafezi, A Rubio - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
An important goal of modern condensed-matter physics involves the search for states of
matter with emergent properties and desirable functionalities. Although the tools for material …

A programmable qudit-based quantum processor

Y Chi, J Huang, Z Zhang, J Mao, Z Zhou, X Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Controlling and programming quantum devices to process quantum information by the unit
of quantum dit, ie, qudit, provides the possibilities for noise-resilient quantum …

Time-crystalline eigenstate order on a quantum processor

X Mi, M Ippoliti, C Quintana, A Greene, Z Chen, J Gross… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature
equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, it was …

Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays

D Bluvstein, A Omran, H Levine, A Keesling… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The control of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is challenging
because interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout …

Many-body localization in the age of classical computing

P Sierant, M Lewenstein, A Scardicchio… - Reports on Progress …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Statistical mechanics provides a framework for describing the physics of large, complex
many-body systems using only a few macroscopic parameters to determine the state of the …

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 …

Observation of a continuous time crystal

P Kongkhambut, J Skulte, L Mathey, JG Cosme… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Time crystals are classified as discrete or continuous depending on whether they
spontaneously break discrete or continuous time translation symmetry. Although discrete …

Band structure engineering and non-equilibrium dynamics in Floquet topological insulators

MS Rudner, NH Lindner - Nature reviews physics, 2020 - nature.com
Non-equilibrium topological phenomena can be induced in quantum many-body systems
using time-periodic fields (for example, by laser or microwave illumination). This Review …

Recent advances and applications of random lasers and random fiber lasers

ASL Gomes, AL Moura, CB de Araújo… - Progress in Quantum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Random Lasers (RLs) and Random Fiber Lasers (RFLs) have been the subject of
intense research since their first experimental demonstration in 1994 and 2007, respectively …