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 …

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 …

Topological phases of non-Hermitian systems

Z Gong, Y Ashida, K Kawabata, K Takasan… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
While Hermiticity lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, recent experimental advances in
controlling dissipation have brought about unprecedented flexibility in engineering non …

Long-range entanglement from measuring symmetry-protected topological phases

N Tantivasadakarn, R Thorngren, A Vishwanath… - Physical Review X, 2024 - APS
A fundamental distinction between many-body quantum states are those with short-and long-
range entanglement (SRE and LRE). The latter cannot be created by finite-depth circuits …

Observation of a discrete time crystal

J Zhang, PW Hess, A Kyprianidis, P Becker, A Lee… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is a fundamental concept in many areas of physics,
including cosmology, particle physics and condensed matter. An example is the breaking of …

Digital quantum simulation of Floquet symmetry-protected topological phases

X Zhang, W Jiang, J Deng, K Wang, J Chen, P Zhang… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum many-body systems away from equilibrium host a rich variety of exotic phenomena
that are forbidden by equilibrium thermodynamics. A prominent example is that of discrete …

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 …

Discrete time crystals: Rigidity, criticality, and realizations

NY Yao, AC Potter, ID Potirniche, A Vishwanath - Physical review letters, 2017 - APS
Despite being forbidden in equilibrium, spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry
can occur in periodically driven, Floquet systems with discrete time-translation symmetry …

Discrete time crystals

DV Else, C Monroe, C Nayak… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-
body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting …

Mixed-state long-range order and criticality from measurement and feedback

TC Lu, Z Zhang, S Vijay, TH Hsieh - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
We propose a general framework for using local measurements, local unitaries, and
nonlocal classical communication to construct quantum channels, which can efficiently …