'Forbidden' time crystals created from new recipe

• Autores: Jennifer Ouellette
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3111, 2017, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It's no longer just a wild theory. Two independent teams of physicists have followed a recipe to build the world's first versions of an enigmatic form of matter--time crystals. MIT physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek first speculated about the existence of time crystals in 2012, while teaching a class on ordinary crystals, such as salt or snowflakes. In a typical crystal, the atoms or molecules are tightly arranged in regularly repeating patterns in three-dimensional space, resembling a lattice.