{"id":243141,"date":"2026-08-25T01:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/physicists-discover-time-crystals-can-communicate-across-a-semiconductor"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T06:25:21","slug":"physicists-discover-time-crystals-can-communicate-across-a-semiconductor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/physicists-discover-time-crystals-can-communicate-across-a-semiconductor","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Discover Time Crystals Can Communicate Across a Semiconductor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-discover-time-crystals-can-communicate-across-a-semiconductor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Separate time crystals inside a semiconductor can \u201cfind\u201d each other across surprising distances and lock into the same rhythm.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at TU Dortmund University demonstrated the effect using a semiconductor system in which electron and nuclear spins form continuous time crystals. Their latest experiments, published in <em><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/em>, reveal that spatially separated oscillators can lock to the same frequency even when they begin with different rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>The finding builds on the team\u2019s earlier demonstration of an unusually robust continuous time crystal in a semiconductor. That system produced persistent electron-nuclear spin oscillations with coherence lasting for hours, giving the researchers a stable platform for exploring what happens when several time crystals occupy the same material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate time crystals inside a semiconductor can \u201cfind\u201d each other across surprising distances and lock into the same rhythm. Researchers at TU Dortmund University demonstrated the effect using a semiconductor system in which electron and nuclear spins form continuous time crystals. Their latest experiments, published in Nature Communications, reveal that spatially separated oscillators can lock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243141","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=243141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}