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. 2016 Aug 26;117(9):090402.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.090402. Epub 2016 Aug 25.

Floquet Time Crystals

Dominic V Else  1 , Bela Bauer  2 , Chetan Nayak  1   2
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Floquet Time Crystals

Dominic V Else et al. Phys Rev Lett. .

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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