Tuning between continuous time crystals and many-body scars in long-range XYZ spin chains
arXiv:2205.02246 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.140602
Abstract
Persistent oscillatory dynamics in non-equilibrium many-body systems is a tantalizing manifestation of ergodicity breakdown that continues to attract much attention. Recent works have focused on two classes of such systems: discrete time crystals and quantum many-body scars (QMBS). While both systems host oscillatory dynamics, its origin is expected to be fundamentally different: discrete time crystal is a phase of matter which spontaneously breaks the symmetry of the external periodic drive, while QMBS span a subspace of non-thermalizing eigenstates forming an su(2) algebra representation. Here we ask a basic question: is there a physical system that allows to tune between these two dynamical phenomena? In contrast to much previous work, we investigate the possibility of a \emph{continuous} time crystal (CTC) in undriven, energy-conserving systems exhibiting prethermalization. We introduce a long-range XYZ spin model and show that it encompasses both a CTC phase as well as QMBS. We map out the dynamical phase diagram using numerical simulations based on exact diagonalization and time-dependent variational principle in the thermodynamic limit. We identify a regime where QMBS and CTC order co-exist, and we discuss experimental protocols that reveal their similarities as well as key differences.
7 pages, 3 figures. (6 pages, 5 figures in Supplementary Material)
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