Floquet Time Crystals.
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.
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Dominic V
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Else
Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6105, USA.
Bela
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Bauer
Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.|Station Q, Microsoft Research, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6105, USA.
Chetan
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Nayak