Synchronizing time crystals can help harness energy
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To save energy with a time crystal, make it double. A mathematical analysis shows that placing two time crystals in a coordinated state can create a quantum device similar to a battery.
Time crystals are distinguished from other quantum states of matter by having a time-repeating structure: they cycle through the same set of configurations over and over without energy. Although physicists once worried that it would break the fundamental laws of physics and make them impossible, over the past decade researchers have created…
