Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
by swypych on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:47PM
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"..."time crystal" is referring to a state of a particular "driven" system"
eli5 please
Re:Yale physicists find signs of a time crystal
by posterboy on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:07PM
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They drive a pulse of electro magnetic radiation (e.g. light) through it, and it takes a very long time to go through, perhaps the signal is altered and ideally it isn't emitted from the system until made to. That's more or less the same explanation as for magnetic and electronic memories, too.
Explained like I was five.
However, for applications, one could imagine a packaged system+driving apparatus with potentially useful properties... but that is just speculation on my part.