Quantum time crystals with programmable disorder in higher dimensions

Abstract

We present fresh evidence for the presence of discrete quantum time crystals in two spatial dimensions. Discrete time crystals are intricate quantum systems that break discrete time translation symmetry in driven quantum many-body systems undergoing non-equilibrium dynamics. They are stabilized by many-body localization arising from disorder. We directly target the thermodynamic limit using instances of infinite tensor network states and implement disorder in a translationally invariant setting by introducing auxiliary systems at each site. We discuss how such disorder can be realized in programmable quantum simulators: This gives rise to the interesting situation in which a classical tensor network simulation can contribute to devising a blueprint of a quantum simulator featuring pre-thermal time crystalline dynamics, one that will yet ultimately have to be built in order to explore the stability of this phase of matter for long times.

arXiv comment13 pages, 9 figures, replaced by final version

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