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REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 81, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aa8b38
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time crystals; many-body interacting systems; spontaneous breaking of time symmetry; many-body localization; periodic driving
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- EU Horizon FET project QUIC [641122]
- National Science Centre, Poland [2016/21/B/ST2/01095, 2016/21/B/ST2/01086]
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Time crystals are time-periodic self-organized structures postulated by Frank Wilczek in 2012. While the original concept was strongly criticized, it stimulated at the same time an intensive research leading to propositions and experimental verifications of discrete (or Floquet) time crystals-the structures that appear in the time domain due to spontaneous breaking of discrete time translation symmetry. The struggle to observe discrete time crystals is reviewed here together with propositions that generalize this concept introducing condensed matter like physics in the time domain. We shall also revisit the original Wilczek's idea and review strategies aimed at spontaneous breaking of continuous time translation symmetry.
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