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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 15, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160402
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- NSF [PHY-0970069, PHY-0855614]
- DOE Grant [DE-FG02-05ER41360]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0970069, 0855614] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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- Division Of Physics [1214341] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics [0855614, 0970069] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We consider the possibility that classical dynamical systems display motion in their lowest-energy state, forming a time analogue of crystalline spatial order. Challenges facing that idea are identified and overcome. We display arbitrary orbits of an angular variable as lowest-energy trajectories for nonsingular Lagrangian systems. Dynamics within orbits of broken symmetry provide a natural arena for formation of time crystals. We exhibit models of that kind, including a model with traveling density waves.
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