articlePhysical Review LettersAug 25, 2016GREEN OA

Floquet Time Crystals

DVDominic V. ElseBBBela BauerCNChetan Nayak

University of California, Santa Barbara · Microsoft (United States)

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Abstract

We define what it means for time translation symmetry to be spontaneously broken in a quantum system and show with analytical arguments and numerical simulations that this occurs in a large class of many-body-localized driven systems with discrete time-translation symmetry.

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  • Floquet theory
  • Physics
  • Materials science
  • Quantum mechanics
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