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 …

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 …

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 …

Long-lived interacting phases of matter protected by multiple time-translation symmetries in quasiperiodically driven systems

DV Else, WW Ho, PT Dumitrescu - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
We show how a large family of interacting nonequilibrium phases of matter can arise from
the presence of multiple time-translation symmetries, which occur by quasiperiodically …

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 …

From a continuous to a discrete time crystal in a dissipative atom-cavity system

H Keßler, JG Cosme, C Georges, L Mathey… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose the dynamical stabilization of a nonequilibrium order in a driven dissipative
system comprised an atomic Bose–Einstein condensate inside a high finesse optical cavity …

Higher-order and fractional discrete time crystals in clean long-range interacting systems

A Pizzi, J Knolle, A Nunnenkamp - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Discrete time crystals are periodically driven systems characterized by a response with
periodicity n T, with T the period of the drive and n> 1. Typically, n is an integer and bounded …

Time crystals protected by floquet dynamical symmetry in hubbard models

K Chinzei, TN Ikeda - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We investigate an unconventional symmetry in time-periodically driven systems, the Floquet
dynamical symmetry (FDS). Unlike the usual symmetries, the FDS gives symmetry sectors …

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 …

Time crystals in a shaken atom-cavity system

JG Cosme, J Skulte, L Mathey - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate the emergence of a time crystal of atoms in a high-finesse optical cavity
driven by a phase-modulated transverse pump field, resulting in a shaken lattice. This …