Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices
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Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices. / Alaeian, Hadiseh; Buca, Berislav.
In: Communications Physics, Vol. 5, No. 1, 318, 07.12.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices
AU - Alaeian, Hadiseh
AU - Buca, Berislav
PY - 2022/12/7
Y1 - 2022/12/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - QUANTUM
KW - SYMMETRIES
KW - DYNAMICS
U2 - 10.1038/s42005-022-01090-z
DO - 10.1038/s42005-022-01090-z
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
JO - Communications Physics
JF - Communications Physics
SN - 2399-3650
IS - 1
M1 - 318
ER -
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