Seeding crystallization in time
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04395v2
- Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:14:05 GMT
- Title: Seeding crystallization in time
- Authors: Michal Hajdu\v{s}ek and Parvinder Solanki and Rosario Fazio and Sai
Vinjanampathy
- Abstract summary: We introduce the concept of seeding of crystallization in time by studying the dynamics of an ensemble of coupled continuous time crystals.
A single subsystem in a broken-symmetry phase acting as a nucleation center may induce time-translation symmetry breaking across the entire ensemble.
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- Abstract: We introduce the concept of seeding of crystallization in time by studying
the dynamics of an ensemble of coupled continuous time crystals. We demonstrate
that a single subsystem in a broken-symmetry phase acting as a nucleation
center may induce time-translation symmetry breaking across the entire
ensemble. Seeding is observed for both coherent as well as dissipative
coupling, and for a broad range of parameter regimes. In the spirit of mutual
synchronization, we investigate the parameter regime where all subsystems are
in the broken symmetry phase. We observe that more broadly detuned time
crystals require weaker coupling strength to be synchronized. This is in
contrast to basic knowledge from classical as well as quantum synchronization
theory. We show that this surprising observation is a direct consequence of the
seeding effect.
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