Floquet Time Crystals
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.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 2016
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1603.08001
- Bibcode:
- 2016PhRvL.117i0402E
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Disordered Systems and Neural Networks;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics;
- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages + 3 pages supplementary materials. Comments welcome. v4: rewritten introduction