Continuous time crystal from a spontaneous many-body Floquet state
J. R. M. de Nova,
F. Sols
Abstract:We propose the concept of a spontaneous many-body Floquet state. This is a state that, in the absence of external periodic driving, still self-oscillates like in the presence of a Floquet Hamiltonian, this behavior being spontaneously induced by many-body interactions. Furthermore, we prove that it is also a time crystal, presenting long-range time-periodic order. However, its time crystalline behavior is very different to that of conventional Floquet discrete time crystals: here, there is no external periodic… Show more
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