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 …

Observation of a continuous time crystal

P Kongkhambut, J Skulte, L Mathey, JG Cosme… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Time crystals are classified as discrete or continuous depending on whether they
spontaneously break discrete or continuous time translation symmetry. Although discrete …

Observation of a dissipative time crystal

H Keßler, P Kongkhambut, C Georges, L Mathey… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We present the first experimental realization of a time crystal stabilized by dissipation. The
central signature in our implementation in a driven open atom-cavity system is a period …

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 …

Algebraic theory of quantum synchronization and limit cycles under dissipation

B Buča, C Booker, D Jaksch - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display
non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without …

Many-body physics in the nisq era: Quantum programming a discrete time crystal

M Ippoliti, K Kechedzhi, R Moessner, SL Sondhi… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in the realm of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices [J.
Preskill, Quantum 2, 79 (2018)] represents an exciting opportunity for many-body physics by …

Absolutely stable time crystals at finite temperature

F Machado, Q Zhuang, NY Yao, MP Zaletel - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that locally interacting, periodically driven (Floquet) Hamiltonian dynamics coupled
to a Langevin bath support finite-temperature discrete time crystals (DTCs) with an infinite …

Realization of a periodically driven open three-level dicke model

P Kongkhambut, H Keßler, J Skulte, L Mathey… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
A periodically driven open three-level Dicke model is realized by resonantly shaking the
pump field in an atom-cavity system. As an unambiguous signature, we demonstrate the …

Dissipative time crystal in an atom-cavity system: Influence of trap and competing interactions

RJL Tuquero, J Skulte, L Mathey, JG Cosme - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
While the recently realized dissipative time crystal in a laser-pumped atom-cavity system in
the experiment of Keßler et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043602 (2021) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

Dynamical l-bits and persistent oscillations in Stark many-body localization

TM Gunawardana, B Buča - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Stark many-body localized (SMBL) systems have been shown both numerically and
experimentally to have Bloch many-body oscillations, quantum many-body scars, and …