Quasi Potentials of Six Parametric Oscillators (IMAGE)

ETH Zurich Department of Physics

Quasi Potentials of Six Parametric Oscillators

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Quasi potentials of six parametric oscillators with weak all-to-all coupling. Stable solutions are located at the minima. The balls indicate the symmetric solution, where all oscillators are in phase. The Hamiltonian H govern the motion of the system has period T, while the solution itself has period 2T. This discrete time translation symmetry breaking makes the system a discrete time crystal.

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ETH Zurich/D-PHYS Toni Heugel

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