Floquet Time Crystals

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

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.