Floquet Time Crystals

2016/03/31 by Dominic V. Else, Bela Bauer, Chetan Nayak · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.stat-mech #cond-mat.str-el #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.117.090402

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 090402 (2016) · 4 pages + 3 pages supplementary materials. Comments welcome. v4: rewritten introduction

arxiv created 2016/06/08 · arxiv updated 2016/08/31

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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