January 28, 2026
Author(s)
Eric Switzer, Niall Robertson, Nathan Keenan, Angel Rodriguez, Andrea D'Urbano, Bibek Pokharel, Talat Rahman, Oles Shtanko, Sergiy Zhuk, Nicolas Lorente
A discrete time crystal (DTC) is an out-of-equilibrium phase of matter that spontaneously breaks discrete time-translation symmetry. Previous studies have been limited to a set of models with Ising-like couplings - and mostly only in one dimension - thus