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Original publication:
| Title: | Time crystals made of electron-positron pairs |
| Author(s): | Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Zofia Bialynicka-Birula |
| As Contributors: | (none claimed) |
| Journal ref.: | Physical Review A 104, 022203 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.022203 |
| Date: | Aug. 6, 2021 |
Abstract:
We show that in the greatly simplified model of mutually interacting electron-positron pairs and an electric field, time-crystal structures can spontaneously form. For a special choice of parameters, we find periodic fluctuations of the pair number and the electric field.