DCMPMS Seminars

A brief history of time crystals

by Prof. Shivaji Sondhi (Department of Physics, Princeton University, USA)

Asia/Kolkata
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AG69

Description
The last few years have seen a flurry of work on "time crystals". I will review the history of this idea and describe how - when it seemed to be going nowhere -  it found an unexpected realization at the intersection of many body localized and periodically driven (or Floquet) systems.