New state of matter: Scientists develop world’s first ‘time crystal’

‘An ‘impossible’ state of matter heralded as the world’s first ‘time crystal’ has been created in a laboratory five years after the existence of these fourth dimension atoms was suggested.
The ‘time crystal’ was created using a chain of atomic ions which move in a pattern that repeats in time rather than space. This contrasts from other crystals such as salt, snowflakes and diamonds which are arranged in repetitive 3D patterns.
Researchers from a number of US educational institutes including the Joint Quantum Institute and the University of Maryland published their groundbreaking discovery in Nature.
Lead author and JQI postdoctoral researcher Jiehang Zhang, said that nature usually responds in sync to things that change in time, however time crystals disturb regularity in time.’
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