Time Crystals on Quantum Devices
Abstract
Time crystals are nonequilibrium phases of matter characterized by the emergence of temporal ordering, in which an interacting many-body system develops robust structure in its time evolution that is not trivially dictated by the external driving or environment. While related phenomena have long been studied in classical nonlinear systems, their realization in entangled quantum matter represents a distinct frontier. The theoretical understanding of discrete time crystals has substantially advanced, yet recent experiments using modern quantum devices and quantum processors reveal regimes beyond established paradigms. These developments call for an extended classification of time-crystalline phases according to both their stabilization mechanisms and their physical character, including discrete and continuous, closed and open, critical, topological, quasiperiodic, and controlled realizations. We review recent implementations of time crystals on quantum platforms and propose such a classification framework, identifying promising directions for the discovery of novel time-crystalline phases of matter.
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BibTeX
@misc{camacho2026time,
title = {{Time Crystals on Quantum Devices}},
author = {Gonzalo Camacho and Benedikt Fauseweh},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.27211},
eprint = {2605.27211},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27211},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Time Crystals on Quantum Devices
AU - Gonzalo Camacho
AU - Benedikt Fauseweh
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.27211
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27211
AB - Time crystals are nonequilibrium phases of matter characterized by the emergence of temporal ordering, in which an interacting many-body system develops robust structure in its time evolution that is not trivially dictated by the external driving or environment. While related phenomena have long been studied in classical nonlinear systems, their realization in entangled quantum matter represents a distinct frontier. The theoretical understanding of discrete time crystals has substantially advanced, yet recent experiments using modern quantum devices and quantum processors reveal regimes beyond established paradigms. These developments call for an extended classification of time-crystalline phases according to both their stabilization mechanisms and their physical character, including discrete and continuous, closed and open, critical, topological, quasiperiodic, and controlled realizations. We review recent implementations of time crystals on quantum platforms and propose such a classification framework, identifying promising directions for the discovery of novel time-crystalline phases of matter.
ER -