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Title: Floquet Time Crystals Could Exist And Break Time Translation Symmetry
Post by: Star One on 09/12/2016 06:57 am

Could someone translate this virtually impenetrable article into terms a layman can understand and would this be of any use in technology.

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/floquet-time-crystals-could-exist-and.html?m=1

Title: Re: Floquet Time Crystals Could Exist And Break Time Translation Symmetry
Post by: Ludus on 11/21/2016 02:35 am

Quote from: Star One on 09/12/2016 06:57 am

Could someone translate this virtually impenetrable article into terms a layman can understand and would this be of any use in technology.

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/floquet-time-crystals-could-exist-and.html?m=1

This wiki does a pretty good job.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-time_crystal

It's something like a possible sort of perpetual motion.

Title: Floquet Time Crystals Could Exist And Break Time Translation Symmetry
Post by: Star One on 01/29/2017 10:01 am

Now been an update on these.

http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-just-announced-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals (http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-just-announced-a-brand-new-form-of-matter-time-crystals)

Two teams -- one at   Harvard and the other at the University of Maryland  -- have submitted their findings to peer-reviewed publications,  according to the article, and "the fact that two separate teams have  used the same blueprint to make time crystals out of vastly different  systems is promising."

http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.030401 (http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.030401)