The conjecture on exponentially long-lived discrete time-crystalline behavior

Consider the Floquet system defined by the Hamiltonian model in equation, with parameters (h,J)[20,20]×(3N1)(\mathbf h,\mathbf J)\in[-20,20]^{\times(3N-1)}. Discrete time-crystal stability conjecture. There is (h,J)[20,20]×(3N1)(\mathbf h,\mathbf J)\in[-20,20]^{\times(3N-1)} at which discrete time-crystalline behavior is stable up to time eΩ(N)e^{\Omega(N)} with respect to extensive periodic perturbations of period 11. This conjecture concerns stability at short and intermediate times, whereas the paper explains that discrete time-crystalline behavior at the longest time scales is unstable under infinitesimal symmetry-preserving perturbations. The source presents proving or disproving this statement as an important question, although the supplied parser status marks it as disproved.

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Yichen Huang, “Long-time properties of generic Floquet systems are approximately periodic with the driving period”, arXiv:2309.05641 (2024).

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