Classical Time Crystals
We consider the possibility that classical dynamical systems display motion in their lowest-energy state, forming a time analogue of crystalline spatial order. Challenges facing that idea are identified and overcome. We display arbitrary orbits of an angular variable as lowest-energy trajectories fo...
Main Authors: | Shapere, Alfred, Wilczek, Frank |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Physical Society
2013
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76210 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6489-6155 |
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