Generating discrete time crystals through optimal control

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Main Authors: Sahoo, Mrutyunjaya, Ghosh, Rahul, Das, Bandita, Mahunta, Shishira, Santra, Bodhaditya, Mukherjee, Victor
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author Sahoo, Mrutyunjaya
Ghosh, Rahul
Das, Bandita
Mahunta, Shishira
Santra, Bodhaditya
Mukherjee, Victor
author_facet Sahoo, Mrutyunjaya
Ghosh, Rahul
Das, Bandita
Mahunta, Shishira
Santra, Bodhaditya
Mukherjee, Victor
contents In this work we use optimal control to generate Discrete Time Crystals (DTC) in generic many-body quantum systems. We define appropriate cost functions, which, when optimized, result in the formation of DTCs. This hitherto unexplored method represents DTCs as an optimization problem, and allows us to find non-trivial realistic periodic control pulses and parameter regimes which result in spontaneous breaking of time-translational symmetry in quantum systems. We exemplify our approach using many-body quantum systems in the presence, as well as absence of dissipation. We also discuss possible experimental realization of the control protocol for generating DTCs.
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spellingShingle Generating discrete time crystals through optimal control
Sahoo, Mrutyunjaya
Ghosh, Rahul
Das, Bandita
Mahunta, Shishira
Santra, Bodhaditya
Mukherjee, Victor
Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
In this work we use optimal control to generate Discrete Time Crystals (DTC) in generic many-body quantum systems. We define appropriate cost functions, which, when optimized, result in the formation of DTCs. This hitherto unexplored method represents DTCs as an optimization problem, and allows us to find non-trivial realistic periodic control pulses and parameter regimes which result in spontaneous breaking of time-translational symmetry in quantum systems. We exemplify our approach using many-body quantum systems in the presence, as well as absence of dissipation. We also discuss possible experimental realization of the control protocol for generating DTCs.
title Generating discrete time crystals through optimal control
topic Quantum Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23021