Controlling quantum many-body dynamics in driven Rydberg atom arrays

Dynamic stabilization of an array Large-scale systems comprising one-dimensional chains and two-dimensional arrays excited atoms held in a programmable optical lattice are powerful platform with which to simulate emergent phenomena. Bluvstein et al. built up 200 Rydberg subjected the system periodic excitation. Under such driven excitation, they found that stabilized, freezing periodically into what looked like time crystals. Understanding controlling dynamic interactions quantum many-body lies at heart contemporary condensed matter physics exotic phenomena can occur. Science , this issue p. 1355