Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190100815

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP190100815

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Building time crystals with ultracold atoms. This project aims to create a new exotic form of quantum matter in which a many-body system of ultracold atoms bouncing on a vibrating mirror spontaneously self-organises its motion with a period tens of times longer than the driving period of the mirror. Such ‘time crystals’ are predicted to be robust against external perturbations and to persist for very long times. The project expects to generate new knowledge on exotic non-equilibrium crystalline phenomena in the time domain, such as many-body localisation with temporal disorder, which has counter-intuitive characteristics such as absence of thermalisation and vanishing direct current transport. Time crystals could provide significant benefits for the storage and transfer of quantum information, and this, and other outcomes may ultimately lead to commercial products.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2019

End Date: 30-06-2023

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $483,401.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quantum Physics | Degenerate Quantum Gases and Atom Optics | Condensed Matter Physics not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Condensed Matter Physics not elsewhere classified | Degenerate Quantum Gases and Atom Optics | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Quantum Physics

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