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    Kleiner, Reinhold; Zhou, Xianjing; Dorsch, Eric; Zhang, Xufeng; Koelle, Dieter; Jin, Dafei

    Nature communications, 10/2021, Letnik: 12, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Abstract We theoretically demonstrate that the high-critical-temperature (high- T c ) superconductor Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+ x (BSCCO) is a natural candidate for the recently envisioned classical space-time crystal. BSCCO intrinsically forms a stack of Josephson junctions. Under a periodic parametric modulation of the Josephson critical current density, the Josephson currents develop coupled space-time crystalline order, breaking the continuous translational symmetry in both space and time. The modulation frequency and amplitude span a (nonequilibrium) phase diagram for a so-defined spatiotemporal order parameter, which displays rigid pattern formation within a particular region of the phase diagram. Based on our calculations using representative material properties, we propose a laser-modulation experiment to realize the predicted space-time crystalline behavior. Our findings bring new insight into the nature of space-time crystals and, more generally, into nonequilibrium driven condensed matter systems.