Bistability and time crystals in long-ranged directed percolation

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 1061 - 8
• Main Authors: Pizzi, Andrea, Nunnenkamp, Andreas, Knolle, Johannes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 16.02.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/766/119; 639/766/530; Bistability; Cellular automata; Crystal defects; Crystals; Dynamical systems; Equilibrium; Humanities and Social Sciences; Initial conditions; Laboratories; Modulation; multidisciplinary; Noise; Percolation; Physics; Probability theory; Random variables; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Stochastic processes; Symmetry; System dynamics; Thermal noise

Stochastic processes govern the time evolution of a huge variety of realistic systems throughout the sciences. A minimal description of noisy many-particle systems within a Markovian picture and with a notion of spatial dimension is given by probabilistic cellular automata, which typically feature t...