Unleashing spontaneity in a time crystal

@article{LeBlanc2022UnleashingSI,
  title={Unleashing spontaneity in a time crystal},
  author={Lindsay J. LeBlanc},
  journal={Science},
  year={2022},
  volume={377},
  pages={576 - 577},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253524941}
}
Description Ordered patterns reoccur over time in an ultracold atomic gas trapped in light The quest to understand how systems develop order underlies the fundamental understanding of almost all sciences, from the origin of galaxies to the origin of life. Over the past decade, ideas about temporal crystallization have been explored theoretically and experimentally, probing the question of whether systems can develop regular, repeating behavior through time, in the same way that spatial crystals… 
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