{"id":140363,"date":"2022-06-10T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researchers-observe-continuous-time-crystal"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:03:01","slug":"researchers-observe-continuous-time-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/researchers-observe-continuous-time-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Researchers observe continuous time crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-observe-continuous-time-crystal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universit\u00e4t Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time translation symmetry. They report their observation in a study published online by the journal <i>Science<\/i> on Thursday, 9 June, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a time crystal goes back to Nobel laureate Franck Wilczek, who first proposed the phenomenon. Similar to water spontaneously turning into ice around the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/freezing+point\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">freezing point<\/a>, thereby breaking the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/translation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">translation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/symmetry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">symmetry<\/a> of the system, the time translation symmetry in a dynamical many-body system spontaneously breaks when a time crystal is formed.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, researchers have already observed discrete or Floquet time crystals in periodically driven closed and open quantum systems. \u201cIn all previous experiments, however, the continuous-time translation symmetry is broken by a time-periodic drive,\u201d says Dr. Hans Ke\u00dfler from Prof. Andreas Hemmerich\u2019s group at the Cluster of Excellence CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter. \u201cThe challenge for us was to realize a system that spontaneously breaks the continuous time translation symmetry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universit\u00e4t Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time translation symmetry. They report their observation in a study published online by the journal Science on Thursday, 9 June, 2022. The idea of a time crystal goes back to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140363","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}