{"id":232442,"date":"2026-03-03T01:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/superfluids-emerge-in-2d-moire-crystal-formed-from-time-study-predicts"},"modified":"2026-03-03T01:26:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:26:47","slug":"superfluids-emerge-in-2d-moire-crystal-formed-from-time-study-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/superfluids-emerge-in-2d-moire-crystal-formed-from-time-study-predicts","title":{"rendered":"Superfluids emerge in 2D moir\u00e9 crystal formed from time, study predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superfluids-emerge-in-2d-moire-crystal-formed-from-time-study-predicts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time without constantly heating up, breaking a physical rule known as time-translation symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at East China Normal University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently predicted the formation of a new type of time crystal, dubbed a two-dimensional (2D) moir\u00e9 time crystal. This crystal was theorized to emerge when periodic perturbations (i.e., regular, repeated disturbances) are applied to ultracold atoms held in a smooth, continuous trap, as opposed to an optical lattice trap. The paper is <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/thvw-pdtd\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were inspired by two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-07-physicists-electronic-properties-moir-crystals.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">exciting concepts<\/a> in physics,\u201d Keye Zhang, professor at East China Normal University and co-senior author of the paper, told Phys.org. \u201cThe first is the concept of \u2018twistronics,\u2019 where twisting atom-thin layers creates moir\u00e9 patterns with exotic material properties. While the second is that of \u2018time crystals\u2019 (a new phase of matter with persistent rhythmic motion). We wondered: could we combine these ideas by treating time itself as a dimension that can be \u2018twisted\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional crystals are materials in which atoms arrange themselves in repeating spatial patterns. Time crystals, on the other hand, are phases of matter characterized by repeating motions over time without constantly heating up, breaking a physical rule known as time-translation symmetry. Researchers at East China Normal University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University recently predicted the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232442","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=232442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}