Interactions Protect Periodically Driven Time Crystals Against Dephasing but Destabilise Multipolar-Driven Order

arXiv:2609.33574 · quant-ph, cond-mat.dis-nn · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

quant-ph, cond-mat.dis-nn

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Trace — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal: Temporal Disorder in Spatiotemporal Order
• Prethermalization by Random Multipolar Driving on a 78-Qubit Superconducting Processor

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