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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

Probing entanglement in a many-body–localized system

A Lukin, M Rispoli, R Schittko, ME Tai, AM Kaufman… - Science, 2019 - science.org
An interacting quantum system that is subject to disorder may cease to thermalize owing to
localization of its constituents, thereby marking the breakdown of thermodynamics. The key …

[HTML][HTML] Many-body localization: An introduction and selected topics

F Alet, N Laflorencie - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
What happens in an isolated quantum system when both disorder and interactions are
present? Over the recent years, the picture of a non-thermalizing phase of matter, the many …

Observation of a discrete time crystal

J Zhang, PW Hess, A Kyprianidis, P Becker, A Lee… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a fundamental concept in many areas of physics,
including cosmology, particle physics and condensed matter. An example is the breaking of …

A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits

C Neill, P Roushan, K Kechedzhi, S Boixo, SV Isakov… - Science, 2018 - science.org
A key step toward demonstrating a quantum system that can address difficult problems in
physics and chemistry will be performing a computation beyond the capabilities of any …

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 …