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Structure and properties

Structure and properties

Time crystals enter the real world of condensed matter

17 Mar 2020
Taken from the March 2020 issue of Physics World.

Time crystals break time-translational symmetry rather than spatial symmetry, as ordinary crystals do. Peter Hannaford and Krzysztof Sacha look at how this exotic state could have similar applications to condensed-matter devices

Time crystals
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Peter Hannaford is an emeritus professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, e-mail phannaford@swin.edu.au, and Krzysztof Sacha is a professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, e-mail krzysztof.sacha@uj.edu.pl
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