Bistability and time crystals in long-ranged directed percolation

A model of a classical discrete time crystal satisfying the criteria of persistent subharmonic response robust against thermal noise and defects has been lacking. Here, the authors show that these criteria are satisfied in one-dimensional probabilistic cellular automata with long-range interactions...

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Main Authors: Andrea Pizzi, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Johannes Knolle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21259-4