Time Crystals: Eternal Ticking Clocks Made of Atoms ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Time crystals in cavity-BEC systems"
Physicists created three types of time crystals and learned to distinguish them.
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A cloud of ultracold atoms, trapped in a mirror cavity, spontaneously began to pulse like an eternal pendulum. That’s a time crystal—a new form of matter that 'ticks' without stopping. Such systems could become the basis for clocks that never need winding.
🎯 Theorists described time crystals in 2012, but the scientific community initially rejected the idea, thinking it violated the laws of thermodynamics.
🎬 The idea of structures living in time cycles echoes the plot of the movie 'Groundhog Day'—only here it’s not a day that repeats, but a quantum state.