Sound-levitated time crystal ticks by breaking symmetry
TL;DR
NYU physicists levitated tiny beads with sound to create a visible, classical time crystal whose nonreciprocal, uneven interactions between particles break Newton’s third law and drive self-sustained oscillations in a compact device; the simple setup could inform future quantum technologies and offer insights into biological timing systems, with the work published in Physical Review Letters.
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