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COMMUNICATIONS PHYSICS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-022-01090-z
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- Purdue University Startup fund
- EPSRC programme [EP/P009565/1]
- EPSRC National Quantum Technology Hub in Networked Quantum Information Technology [EP/M013243/1]
- VILLUM FONDEN [42085]
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In this study, by utilizing modulated dynamical symmetries, the existence of multistability in the presence of quantum fluctuations is exactly proven in a driven-dissipative fermionic chain. Unlike the mean-field level, the quantum fluctuations themselves exhibit multistability.
The existence of multistability in quantum systems beyond the mean-field approximation remains an intensely debated open question. Quantum fluctuations are finite-size corrections to the mean-field as the full exact solution is unobtainable and they usually destroy the multistability present on the mean-field level. Here, by identifying and using exact modulated dynamical symmetries in a driven-dissipative fermionic chain we exactly prove multistability in the presence of quantum fluctuations. Further, unlike common cases in our model, rather than destroying multistability, the quantum fluctuations themselves exhibit multistability, which is absent on the mean-field level for our systems. Moreover, the studied model acquires additional thermodynamic dynamical symmetries that imply persistent periodic oscillations, constituting the first case of a boundary time crystal,to the best of our knowledge, a genuine extended many-body quantum system with the previous cases being only in emergent single- or few-body models. The model can be made into a dissipative time crystal in the limit of large dissipation (i.e. the persistent oscillations are stabilized by the dissipation) making it both a boundary and dissipative time crystal.
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