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 …

Long-range interacting quantum systems

N Defenu, T Donner, T Macrì, G Pagano, S Ruffo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
In this review recent investigations are summarized of many-body quantum systems with
long-range interactions, which are currently realized in Rydberg atom arrays, dipolar …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays

D Bluvstein, A Omran, H Levine, A Keesling… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The control of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in many-body systems is challenging
because interactions typically lead to thermalization and a chaotic spreading throughout …

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 …

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 …

Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system

S Choi, J Choi, R Landig, G Kucsko, H Zhou, J Isoya… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding quantum dynamics away from equilibrium is an outstanding challenge in the
modern physical sciences. Out-of-equilibrium systems can display a rich variety of …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Colloquium: Atomic quantum gases in periodically driven optical lattices

A Eckardt - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Time-periodic forcing in the form of coherent radiation is a standard tool for the coherent
manipulation of small quantum systems like single atoms. In the last years, periodic driving …

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 …