Continuous time crystal from a spontaneous many-body Floquet state
arXiv:2107.00674 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.105.043302
Abstract
Floquet driven systems represent an extremely interesting arena to study out-of-equilibrium phenomena. For instance, they provide realizations of discrete time crystals, where the discrete time translation symmetry of the periodic Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken by a subharmonic response of the system. However, the continuous presence of an external periodic driving is required within the current Floquet paradigm. We propose here the concept of spontaneous many-body Floquet state. This is a state that, in the absence of external periodic driving, self-oscillates like in the presence of a periodic Hamiltonian, this behavior being spontaneously induced by many-body interactions. In addition, its quantum fluctuations are described by regular Floquet theory. Furthermore, it is also a time crystal, presenting long-range time-periodic order. However, this crystalline behavior is very different to that of conventional Floquet discrete time crystals: here, there is no external periodic driving, energy is conserved, and the nature of the spontaneous symmetry breaking is continuous instead of discrete. We demonstrate that spontaneous many-body Floquet states can emerge in a variety of canonical many-body problems, ranging from interacting fermions to Bose-Hubbard models. We specifically show that a spontaneous many-body Floquet state is a universal intrinsic state of a one-dimensional flowing atom condensate, both subsonic and supersonic, resulting from a dynamical phase transition and robust against external perturbations and quantum fluctuations, proposing also realistic experimental scenarios for its observation. A spontaneous many-body Floquet state not only represents a realization of a continuous time crystal, but also a novel paradigm in Floquet physics.
arXiv commentMain text: 6 pages, 4 figures. Supplemental Material: 18 pages, 8 figures
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