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Random driving on a 78-qubit processor reveals controllable prethermal plateau
- January 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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Time-dependent driving has become a powerful tool for creating novel nonequilibrium phases such as discrete time crystals and Floquet topological phases, which do not exist in static systems. Breaking continuous time-translation symmetry typically leads to the outcome that driven quantum systems absorb energy and eventually heat up toward a featureless infinite-temperature state, where coherent structure is lost.
Originally published at Phys.org