Zeitkristall
Materie, die in der Zeit schwingt.
Proposed by Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek in 2012, time crystals were first observed in 2016. They exist in 'floquet' non-equilibrium phases where the system's internal state repeats at a period that is an integer multiple of the driving period. This perpetual motion (in the ground state, not doing work) challenges standard thermodynamics and has potential applications in stable quantum memory.
graph LR
Center["Zeitkristall"]:::main
Rel_iteration["iteration"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_iteration "/terms/iteration"
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Time-crystals are a manifestation of 'Discrete Time-Translation Symmetry Breaking' (DTTB). In a periodically driven (Floquet) many-body localized (MBL) system, the response of the system shows a sub-harmonic frequency, meaning it returns to its state after $ n imes T $ where $ T $ is the driving period. This rigidity against perturbations makes them candidates for high-coherence qubits since they are immune to thermalization.