Floquet Time Crystals Could Exist And Break Time Translation Symmetry

• Floquet Time Crystals Could Exist And Break Time Translation Symmetry by Star One on 12 Sep, 2016 06:57
• 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
  
  
• #1 by Ludus on 21 Nov, 2016 02:35
• Quote from: Star One on 12 Sep, 2016 06:57

  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.
• #2 by Star One on 29 Jan, 2017 10:01
• Now been an update on these.
  
  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