Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices

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The existence of multistability in quantum systems beyond the mean-field approximation remains an intensely debated open question. Quantum fluctuations are finite-size corrections to the mean-field as the full exact solution is unobtainable and they usually destroy the multistability present on the mean-field level. Here, by identifying and using exact modulated dynamical symmetries in a driven-dissipative fermionic chain we exactly prove multistability in the presence of quantum fluctuations. Further, unlike common cases in our model, rather than destroying multistability, the quantum fluctuations themselves exhibit multistability, which is absent on the mean-field level for our systems. Moreover, the studied model acquires additional thermodynamic dynamical symmetries that imply persistent periodic oscillations, constituting the first case of a boundary time crystal,to the best of our knowledge, a genuine extended many-body quantum system with the previous cases being only in emergent single- or few-body models. The model can be made into a dissipative time crystal in the limit of large dissipation (i.e. the persistent oscillations are stabilized by the dissipation) making it both a boundary and dissipative time crystal.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer318
TidsskriftCommunications Physics
Vol/bind5
Udgave nummer1
Antal sider9
ISSN2399-3650
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 7 dec. 2022

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