Boundary time crystals

Volume: 121, Issue: 3, Pages: 035301 - 035301
Published: Jul 16, 2018
Abstract
In this work we introduce boundary time crystals. Here continuous time-translation symmetry breaking occurs only in a macroscopic fraction of a many-body quantum system. After introducing their definition and properties, we analyze in detail a solvable model where an accurate scaling analysis can be performed. The existence of the boundary time crystals is intimately connected to the emergence of a time-periodic steady state in the thermodynamic...
Paper Details
Title
Boundary time crystals
Published Date
Jul 16, 2018
Volume
121
Issue
3
Pages
035301 - 035301
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