The fate of a discrete time crystal in an open system

Abstract

Following the recent realisation that periodically driven quantum matter can support new types of spatiotemporal order, now known as discrete time crystals (DTCs), we consider the stability of this phenomenon. Motivated by its conceptual importance as well as its experimental relevance we consider the effect of coupling to an external environment. We use this to argue, both analytically and numerically, that the DTC in disordered one-dimensional systems is destroyed at long times by any such natural coupling. This holds true even in the case where the coupling is such that the system is prevented from heating up by an external thermal bath.

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