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January 29, 2018 05:30 am PST

Scientists figure out how to make and measure time crystals

Time crystals, a theoretical phase of matter proposed in 2012, can now be reliably created and measured, thanks to researchers at UC Berkeley. Above: a great primer on time crystals.

The discovery built on the work of several teams of researchers:

Time crystals repeat in time because they are kicked periodically, sort of like tapping Jell-O repeatedly to get it to jiggle, Yao said. The big breakthrough, he argues, is less that these particular crystals repeat in time than that they are the first of a large class of new materials that are intrinsically out of equilibrium, unable to settle down to the motionless equilibrium of, for example, a diamond or ruby.

This is a new phase of matter, period, but it is also really cool because it is one of the first examples of non-equilibrium matter, Yao said. For the last half-century, we have been exploring equilibrium matter, like metals and insulators. We are just now starting to explore a whole new landscape of non-equilibrium matter.

Maybe the next step is the development of these time crystals:

https://youtu.be/6dQN1IvG13A?t=10m12s

Scientists unveil new form of matter: time crystals (UC Berkeley via EurekAlert)


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