{"id":103746,"date":"2020-03-13T19:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/searching-for-discrete-time-crystals-in-classical-many-body-systems"},"modified":"2020-03-13T19:42:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:42:46","slug":"searching-for-discrete-time-crystals-in-classical-many-body-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/searching-for-discrete-time-crystals-in-classical-many-body-systems","title":{"rendered":"Searching for discrete time crystals in classical many-body systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/searching-for-discrete-time-crystals-in-classical-many-body-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our current, well-established understanding of phases of matter primarily relates to systems that are at or near thermal equilibrium. However, there is a rich world of systems that are not in a state of equilibrium, which could host new and fascinating phases of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, studies focusing on systems outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/thermal+equilibrium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thermal equilibrium<\/a> have led to the discovery of new phases in periodically driven quantum systems, the most well-known of which is the discrete time crystal (DTC) phase. This unique phase is characterized by collective subharmonic oscillations arising from the interplay between many-body interactions and non-equilibrium driving, which leads to a loss of ergodicity.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, subharmonic oscillations are also known to be a characteristic of dynamical systems, such as predator-prey models and parametric resonances. Some researchers have thus been exploring the possibility that these <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/classical+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">classical systems<\/a> may exhibit similar features to those observed in the DTC phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our current, well-established understanding of phases of matter primarily relates to systems that are at or near thermal equilibrium. However, there is a rich world of systems that are not in a state of equilibrium, which could host new and fascinating phases of matter. Recently, studies focusing on systems outside of thermal equilibrium have led [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}