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Time Crystals

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Periodic motion can be observed everywhere ranging from atomic systems and a clock on a wall to the Solar System and beyond the Milky Way. Periodic evolution in time can be considered as a temporal counterpart of periodic behavior in the space dimensions which is also common because there are solid state crystals. Research of periodic motion of systems as crystalline structures in the time domain is a novel field initiated by Alfred Shapere and Frank Wilczek in the classical systems and by Wilczek himself in the quantum case.

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Sacha, K. (2020). Introduction. In: Time Crystals. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 114. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52523-1_1

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