Creating big time crystals with ultracold atoms
arXiv:2004.00755 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aba3e6
Abstract
We investigate the size of discrete time crystals s (ratio of response period to driving period) that can be created for a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) bouncing resonantly on an oscillating mirror. We find that time crystals can be created with sizes in the range s = 20 - 100 and that such big time crystals are easier to realize experimentally than a period-doubling (s = 2) time crystal because they require either a larger drop height or a smaller number of bounces on the mirror. We also investigate the effects of having a realistic soft Gaussian potential mirror for the bouncing BEC, such as that produced by a repulsive light-sheet, which is found to make the experiment easier to implement than a hard-wall potential mirror. Finally, we discuss the choice of atomic system for creating time crystals based on a bouncing BEC and present an experimental protocol for realizing big time crystals. Such big time crystals provide a flexible platform for investigating a broad range of non-trivial condensed matter phenomena in the time domain.
arXiv comment19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables
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