Thermodynamics of coupled time crystals with an application to energy storage
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| author | Paulino, Paulo J. Cabot, Albert De Chiara, Gabriele Antezza, Mauro Lesanovsky, Igor Carollo, Federico |
| author_facet | Paulino, Paulo J. Cabot, Albert De Chiara, Gabriele Antezza, Mauro Lesanovsky, Igor Carollo, Federico |
| contents | Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which typically manifests through persistent oscillations of an order parameter. A paradigmatic model displaying such a symmetry breaking is the boundary time crystal, which has been extensively analyzed experimentally and theoretically. Despite the broad interest in these nonequilibrium phases, their thermodynamics and their fluctuating behavior remain largely unexplored, in particular for the case of coupled time crystals. In this work, we consider two interacting boundary time crystals and derive a consistent interpretation of their thermodynamic behavior. We fully characterize their average dynamics and the behavior of their quantum fluctuations, which allows us to demonstrate the presence of quantum and classical correlations in both the stationary and the time-crystal phases displayed by the system. We furthermore exploit our theoretical derivation to explore possible applications of time crystals as quantum batteries, demonstrating their ability to efficiently store energy. |
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| spellingShingle | Thermodynamics of coupled time crystals with an application to energy storage Paulino, Paulo J. Cabot, Albert De Chiara, Gabriele Antezza, Mauro Lesanovsky, Igor Carollo, Federico Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics Open many-body quantum systems can exhibit intriguing nonequilibrium phases of matter, such as time crystals. In these phases, the state of the system spontaneously breaks the time-translation symmetry of the dynamical generator, which typically manifests through persistent oscillations of an order parameter. A paradigmatic model displaying such a symmetry breaking is the boundary time crystal, which has been extensively analyzed experimentally and theoretically. Despite the broad interest in these nonequilibrium phases, their thermodynamics and their fluctuating behavior remain largely unexplored, in particular for the case of coupled time crystals. In this work, we consider two interacting boundary time crystals and derive a consistent interpretation of their thermodynamic behavior. We fully characterize their average dynamics and the behavior of their quantum fluctuations, which allows us to demonstrate the presence of quantum and classical correlations in both the stationary and the time-crystal phases displayed by the system. We furthermore exploit our theoretical derivation to explore possible applications of time crystals as quantum batteries, demonstrating their ability to efficiently store energy. |
| title | Thermodynamics of coupled time crystals with an application to energy storage |
| topic | Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04836 |