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 …

Dissipative time crystals with long-range Lindbladians

G Passarelli, P Lucignano, R Fazio, A Russomanno - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Dissipative time crystals can appear in spin systems, when the Z 2 symmetry of the
Hamiltonian is broken by the environment, and the square of total spin operator S 2 is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Floquet phases of matter via classical prethermalization

B Ye, F Machado, NY Yao - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We demonstrate that the prethermal regime of periodically driven (Floquet), classical many-
body systems can host nonequilibrium phases of matter. In particular, we show that there …

Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices

H Alaeian, B Buča - Communications Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The existence of multistability in quantum systems beyond the mean-field approximation
remains an intensely debated open question. Quantum fluctuations are finite-size …

Theory for dissipative time crystals in coupled parametric oscillators

S Yi-Thomas, JD Sau - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Discrete time crystals are novel phases of matter that break the discrete time translational
symmetry of a periodically driven system. In this Letter, we propose a classical system of …

Microwave seeding time crystal in Floquet driven Rydberg atoms

B Liu, LH Zhang, Y Ma, TY Han, QF Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Crystal seeding enables a deeper understanding of phase behavior, leading to the
development of methods for controlling and manipulating phase transitions in various …