Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Time crystals: a review

K Sacha, J Zakrzewski - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Time crystals are time-periodic self-organized structures postulated by Frank Wilczek in
2012. While the original concept was strongly criticized, it stimulated at the same time an …

Irradiated graphene as a tunable Floquet topological insulator

G Usaj, PM Perez-Piskunow, LEF Foa Torres… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
In the presence of a circularly polarized mid-infrared radiation graphene develops
dynamical band gaps in its quasienergy band structure and becomes a Floquet insulator …

Observation and manipulation of quantum interference in a superconducting Kerr parametric oscillator

D Iyama, T Kamiya, S Fujii, H Mukai, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum tunneling is the phenomenon that makes superconducting circuits “quantum”.
Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using quantum tunneling in phase space of a …

Observation of a space-time crystal in a superfluid quantum gas

J Smits, L Liao, HTC Stoof, P van der Straten - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Time crystals are a phase of matter, for which the discrete time symmetry of the driving
Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken. The breaking of discrete time symmetry has been …

Quantum critical regime in a quadratically driven nonlinear photonic lattice

R Rota, F Minganti, C Ciuti, V Savona - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We study an array of coupled optical cavities in the presence of two-photon driving and
dissipation. The system displays a critical behavior similar to that of a quantum Ising model …

Driven-dissipative quantum Kerr resonators: New exact solutions, photon blockade and quantum bistability

D Roberts, AA Clerk - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We present a new approach for deriving exact closed-form solutions for the steady state of a
wide class of driven-dissipative nonlinear resonators that is distinct from more common …

Condensed matter physics in time crystals

L Guo, P Liang - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Time crystals are physical systems whose time translation symmetry is spontaneously
broken. Although the spontaneous breaking of continuous time-translation symmetry in static …

Time crystals: Analysis of experimental conditions

K Giergiel, A Kosior, P Hannaford, K Sacha - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
Time crystals are quantum many-body systems which are able to self-organize their motion
in a periodic way in time. Discrete time crystals have been experimentally demonstrated in …

Autonomous quantum error correction in a four-photon Kerr parametric oscillator

S Kwon, S Watabe, JS Tsai - npj Quantum Information, 2022 - nature.com
Autonomous quantum error correction has gained considerable attention to avoid
complicated measurements and feedback. Despite its simplicity compared with the …