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NEW POSSIBILITIES. “This allows the creation of big discrete time crystals possessing a large number of temporal lattice sites, which are suitable for realizing a broad range of condensed matter phenomena in the time dimension.” https://lnkd.in/e5UXiem5 View in LinkedIn

LONG PERIODS. “Such a system has been shown to exhibit dramatic breaking of discrete time-translation symmetry in which the bouncing atoms can evolve with periods up to about 100 times longer than the period of the drive.” https://lnkd.in/e5UXiem5 View in LinkedIn

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SMART BEES. “Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers.” https://lnkd.in/e6GJdWKi View in LinkedIn

CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS. “We consider the case of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms bouncing resonantly on an oscillating atom mirror.” https://lnkd.in/e5UXiem5 View in LinkedIn

VALIDATION. “A number of experiments providing evidence of discrete time crystals have been reported.” https://lnkd.in/e5UXiem5 View in LinkedIn

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COLLECTIVE HIVE MIND. “The juxtaposition of insect and human collectives is instructive in showing up common elements in terms of large-scale structures and how the needs of the overall collective can dwarf those of the individual.” https://lnkd.in/e2ktPTqP View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends on the theme of time crystals. The ideas presented here are not entirely new, and come in part from Nobel prize winner Philip Anderson, the “pope of solid-state physics.” Condensed matter physics is the closest thing we have on Earth to investigating extreme conditions in outer space, with enormous densities, magnetism, heat, and cold, that likely require new physics to describe them. https://lnkd.in/e3uyixHV View in LinkedIn

ULTRACOLD ATOMS. “Another example is ultracold atoms in optical lattice potentials which are routinely created in the laboratory by means of electromagnetic standing waves. There, ultracold atoms behave like solid state systems but the crystalline structures in space do not emerge spontaneously.” https://lnkd.in/e5UXiem5 View in LinkedIn