Chetan Nayak - UC Santa Barbara - Floquet Time Crystals: Spontaneously Broken Discrete Time-Translational Symmetry in Periodically-Driven Systems

Event time:

Friday, May 6, 2016 - 12:00pm

Location:

Yale Quantum Institute See map

17 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven

Event description:

Floquet Time Crystals: Spontaneously Broken Discrete Time-Translational Symmetry in Periodically-Driven Systems

I will define what it means for time translation symmetry to be spontaneously broken in a quantum system, and show with analytical arguments and numerical simulations that this occurs in a large class of driven systems with discrete time-translation symmetry.

Friday 6 May, 12 noon, Lunch : 11.45 am

Common Space YQI, 4^th floor 17 Hillhouse Avenue

We hope to see you all there!

Hosts: Prof. Nicholas Read

Email: yqi@yale.edu