2 papers
quant-ph2025
Thermodynamics and Protection of Discrete-Time Crystals
Gabriele Cenedese, Samuel T. Mister, Mauro Antezza +2
Discrete-Time Crystals (DTC) are a non-equilibrium phase of matter characterized by the breaking of time-translation symmetry in periodically driven quantum systems. In this work,…
quant-ph2025
Thermodynamics of coupled time crystals with an application to energy storage
Paulo J. Paulino, Albert Cabot, Gabriele De Chiara +3
Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time…