Proof of the absence of long-range temporal orders in Gibbs states
arXiv:1911.12939 · doi:10.1007/s10955-019-02471-5
Abstract
We address the question whether time translation symmetry can be spontaneously broken in a quantum many-body system. One way of detecting such a symmetry breaking is to examine the time-dependence of a correlation function. If the large-distance behavior of the correlation function exhibits a nontrivial time-dependence in the thermodynamic limit, the system would develop a temporal long-range order, realizing a time crystal. In an earlier publication, we sketched a proof for the absence of such time dependence in the thermal equilibrium described by the Gibbs state [H. Watanabe and M. Oshikawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 251603 (2015)]. Here we present a complete proof and extend the argument to a more general class of stationary states than the Gibbs states.
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