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Discrete time crystals in Bose-Einstein condensates and the symmetry-breaking edge in a simple two-mode theory

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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
卷 104, 期 5, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.053327

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  1. ARC [DP190100815]
  2. ARC DECRA [DE180100592]
  3. National Science Centre Poland [2018/31/B/ST2/00349]
  4. Australian Research Council [DE180100592] Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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Discrete time crystals (DTCs) are studied in a periodically driven quantum system, focusing on a Bose-Einstein condensate bouncing on an oscillating mirror. Characteristic features of DTC formation and long-time behavior, including the appearance of a symmetry-breaking edge and the occurrence of quantum revivals, are identified.
Discrete time crystals (DTCs) refer to a novel many-body steady state that spontaneously breaks the discrete time-translational symmetry in a periodically driven quantum system. Here, we study DTCs in a Bose-Einstein condensate bouncing resonantly on an oscillating mirror, using a two-mode model derived from a standard quantum field theory. We investigate the validity of this model and apply it to study the long-time behavior of our system. A wide variety of initial states based on two Wannier modes are considered. We find that in previous studies the investigated phenomena in the evolution time window (-2000 driving periods) are actually short-time transient behavior though DTC formation signaled by the subharmonic responses is still shown if the interboson interaction is strong enough. After a much longer (about 20 times) evolution time, initial states with no long-range correlations relax to a steady state, where time-symmetry breaking can be unambiguously defined. Quantum revivals also eventually occur. This long-time behavior can be understood via the many-body Floquet quasieigenenergy spectrum of the two-mode model. A symmetry-breaking edge for DTC formation appears in the spectrum for strong enough interaction, where all quasieigenstates below the edge are symmetry breaking while those above the edge are symmetric. The late-time steady state's time-translational symmetry depends solely on whether the initial energy is above or below the symmetry-breaking edge. A phase diagram showing regions of symmetry-broken and symmetric phases for differing initial energies and interaction strengths is presented. We find that, according to this two-mode model, the discrete time crystal survives for times out to at least 250 000 driving periods.

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