Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals

MP Zaletel, M Lukin, C Monroe, C Nayak, F Wilczek… - Reviews of Modern …, 2023 - APS
The spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry has led to the discovery of a new
phase of matter: the discrete time crystal. Discrete time crystals exhibit rigid subharmonic …

Sensitivity optimization for NV-diamond magnetometry

JF Barry, JM Schloss, E Bauch, MJ Turner, CA Hart… - Reviews of Modern …, 2020 - APS
Solid-state spin systems including nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond constitute an
increasingly favored quantum sensing platform. However, present NV ensemble devices …

Weak ergodicity breaking from quantum many-body scars

CJ Turner, AA Michailidis, DA Abanin, M Serbyn… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
The thermodynamic description of many-particle systems rests on the assumption of
ergodicity, the ability of a system to explore all allowed configurations in the phase space …

[HTML][HTML] Many-body localization: An introduction and selected topics

F Alet, N Laflorencie - Comptes Rendus Physique, 2018 - Elsevier
What happens in an isolated quantum system when both disorder and interactions are
present? Over the recent years, the picture of a non-thermalizing phase of matter, the many …

Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations

CJ Turner, AA Michailidis, DA Abanin, M Serbyn… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent realization of a kinetically constrained chain of Rydberg atoms by Bernien,[Nature
(London) 551, 579 (2017) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature24622] resulted in the …

Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system

S Choi, J Choi, R Landig, G Kucsko, H Zhou, J Isoya… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding quantum dynamics away from equilibrium is an outstanding challenge in the
modern physical sciences. Out-of-equilibrium systems can display a rich variety of …

High-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a solid-state spin sensor

DR Glenn, DB Bucher, J Lee, MD Lukin, H Park… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Quantum systems that consist of solid-state electronic spins can be sensitive detectors of
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals, particularly from very small samples. For …

Discrete time crystals

DV Else, C Monroe, C Nayak… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Experimental advances have allowed for the exploration of nearly isolated quantum many-
body systems whose coupling to an external bath is very weak. A particularly interesting …

QuSpin: a Python package for dynamics and exact diagonalisation of quantum many body systems. Part II: bosons, fermions and higher spins

P Weinberg, M Bukov - SciPost Physics, 2019 - scipost.org
We present a major update to QuSpin, SciPostPhys. 2.1. 003--an open-source Python
package for exact diagonalization and quantum dynamics of arbitrary boson, fermion and …

Observation of non-Hermitian topology with nonunitary dynamics of solid-state spins

W Zhang, X Ouyang, X Huang, X Wang, H Zhang… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no
Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk …