Sensing with discrete time crystals.

Leo Joon Il Moon, Paul M Schindler, Ryan J Smith, Emanuel Druga, Zhuo-Rui Zhang, Marin Bukov, Ashok Ajoy

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Article in Nature physics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Dynamical freezing for magnetometry in an interacting spin ensemble.Nature · 2026
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Leo Joon Il Moon *Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA.ORCID 0009-0009-0017-7950

Paul M Schindler *Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0973-5444

Ryan J Smith *Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA.

Emanuel DrugaDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA.

Zhuo-Rui ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA.ORCID 0009-0008-9340-2856

Marin BukovMax Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3688-9599

Ashok AjoyDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3242-2913

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Abstract

Prethermal discrete time crystals are non-equilibrium states of matter with long-range spatiotemporal order and a subharmonic response stabilized by many-body interactions under periodic driving. The robustness of time-crystalline order to perturbations in the drive protocol makes these systems attractive for quantum sensing. Here we exploit the sensitivity of prethermal discrete time crystal order to deviations in its order parameter to implement the frequency-selective detection of time-varying magnetic fields in a system of strongly driven, dipolar-coupled

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Condensed-matter physicsQuantum metrologyStatistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics

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PMID41940163

DOI10.1038/s41567-025-03163-6

PMCPMC13046468

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