Time Crystals as Passively Protected Oscillating Qubits

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20269v1
• Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:01:02 GMT
• Title: Time Crystals as Passively Protected Oscillating Qubits
• Authors: Mert Esencan, A. I. Lvovsky, Berislav Buča,
• Abstract summary: We show that a driven-dissipative bosonic system can encode a persistently oscillating qubit within a noiseless subsystem.<n>Results establish dissipative time-crystalline dynamics as a mechanism for passive protection of dynamical quantum information.
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• Abstract: Protecting information against decoherence in open quantum systems remains a central challenge for quantum computing. In particular, passive error correction schemes have so far been limited to static memories rather than dynamical qubits. We demonstrate that a driven-dissipative bosonic system can encode a persistently oscillating qubit within a noiseless subsystem, realized explicitly in the Bose-Hubbard dimer (BHD). The strong parity symmetry of the model leads to degenerate stationary states. This symmetry is further broken into non-stationary states in the thermodynamic limit, which exhibit persistent oscillations. As the driving force increases, the Liouvillian spectrum of these states features a phase transition. Above the transition point, the non-stationary state encodes quantum information, preserving it in a noiseless subsystem. In addition to global loss that affects both bosonic modes identically, we further add global dephasing and show that the oscillating qubit is preserved. Finally, in order to gain additional physical insight, we study the effect of phase perturbation to both modes and observe that likewise they are passively protected, returning approximately to their initial configurations. These results establish dissipative time-crystalline dynamics as a mechanism for passive protection of dynamical quantum information, enabling autonomously stabilized oscillating qubits.

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