Realizing discrete time crystal in an one-dimensional superconducting qubit chain

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00942v1
• Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2021 14:44:30 GMT
• Title: Realizing discrete time crystal in an one-dimensional superconducting qubit chain
• Authors: Huikai Xu, Jingning Zhang, Jiaxiu Han, Zhiyuan Li, Guangming Xue, Weiyang Liu, Yirong Jin, Haifeng Yu
• Abstract summary: Floquet systems can support a discrete time-translation symmetry (TTS) broken phase, dubbed the discrete time crystal (DTC) Here we report the observation of the DTC in an one-dimensional superconducting qubit chain.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Floquet engineering, i.e. driving the system with periodic Hamiltonians, not only provides great flexibility in analog quantum simulation, but also supports phase structures of great richness. It has been proposed that Floquet systems can support a discrete time-translation symmetry (TTS) broken phase, dubbed the discrete time crystal (DTC). This proposal, as well as the exotic phase, has attracted tremendous interest among the community of quantum simulation. Here we report the observation of the DTC in an one-dimensional superconducting qubit chain. We experimentally realize long-time stroboscopic quantum dynamics of a periodically driven spin system consisting of 8 transmon qubits, and obtain a lifetime of the DTC order limited by the coherence time of the underlying physical platform. We also explore the crossover between the discrete TTS broken and unbroken phases via various physical signatures. Our work extends the usage of superconducting circuit systems in quantum simulation of many-body physics, and provides an experimental tool for investigating non-equilibrium dynamics and phase structures.

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