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 …

[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 …

Discrete time crystals

DV Else, C Monroe, C Nayak… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-
body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting …

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 …

A brief history of time crystals

V Khemani, R Moessner, SL Sondhi - arxiv preprint arxiv:1910.10745, 2019 - arxiv.org
The idea of breaking time-translation symmetry has fascinated humanity at least since
ancient proposals of the perpetuum mobile. Unlike the breaking of other symmetries, such …

Quantum metrology with boundary time crystals

V Montenegro, MG Genoni, A Bayat… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum sensing is one of the arenas that exemplifies the superiority of quantum
technologies over their classical counterparts. Such superiority, however, can be diminished …

All-optical dissipative discrete time crystals

H Taheri, AB Matsko, L Maleki, K Sacha - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-
independent or periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification …

Floquet time crystals as quantum sensors of ac fields

F Iemini, R Fazio, A Sanpera - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
The long-range spatial and temporal ordering displayed by discrete time crystals, can
become advantageous properties when used for sensing extremely weak signals. Here, we …

Measurement-induced continuous time crystals

M Krishna, P Solanki, M Hajdušek, S Vinjanampathy - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Strong measurements usually restrict the dynamics of measured finite dimensional systems
to the Zeno subspace, where subsequent evolution is unitary due to the suppression 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 …