Summary:
- This article reports on the discovery of a new type of time crystal, a novel phase of matter that exhibits persistent oscillations even in the absence of an external drive.
- The researchers created the time crystal using a system of interacting spins in a quantum simulator, demonstrating that the time crystal persists for hundreds of thousands of oscillation cycles.
- This breakthrough in the field of nonequilibrium quantum many-body physics could lead to new applications in quantum sensing, timekeeping, and the study of fundamental physics.