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 …

Colloquium: Nonthermal pathways to ultrafast control in quantum materials

A De La Torre, DM Kennes, M Claassen, S Gerber… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Recent progress in utilizing ultrafast light-matter interaction to control the macroscopic
properties of quantum materials is reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on photoinduced …

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 …

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 …

Observing non-ergodicity due to kinetic constraints in tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

S Scherg, T Kohlert, P Sala, F Pollmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems is deeply related to fundamental
questions of quantum information theory. While integrable or many-body localized systems …

Observation of a prethermal discrete time crystal

A Kyprianidis, F Machado, W Morong, P Becker… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Extending the framework of statistical physics to the nonequilibrium setting has led to the
discovery of previously unidentified phases of matter, often catalyzed by periodic driving …

Thermalization and prethermalization in isolated quantum systems: a theoretical overview

T Mori, TN Ikeda, E Kaminishi… - Journal of Physics B …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The approach to thermal equilibrium, or thermalization, in isolated quantum systems is
among the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. Recent theoretical studies have …

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 …

Noise-resilient edge modes on a chain of superconducting qubits

X Mi, M Sonner, MY Niu, KW Lee, B Foxen, R Acharya… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Inherent symmetry of a quantum system may protect its otherwise fragile states. Leveraging
such protection requires testing its robustness against uncontrolled environmental …

Quantum equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization in ultracold atoms

M Ueda - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, there has been remarkable progress in our understanding of
equilibration, thermalization and prethermalization, due in large part to experimental …