Nonexistence of spontaneous symmetry breakdown of time-translation symmetry on general quantum systems: Any macroscopic order parameter moves not!
arXiv:2201.06051 · doi:10.1142/S0129055X2330008X
Abstract
This review informs that the impossibility of genuine quantum time crystals has been known in the C*-algebraic quantum statistical mechanics since 1970s. The KMS condition implies that spontaneous breakdown of time-translation symmetry is impossible in general quantum systems. In particular, any non-trivial order, such as periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic order cannot exist in the time direction of equilibrium states, meaning that genuine quantum time crystals are excluded from the outset.
This is a review paper to be published in Reviews in Mathematical Physics
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