Alex Greilich

Professor at Technische Universität Dortmund, lead researcher

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Time crystals synchronize across long distances in a semiconductor

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Leading the synchronization research program

In 2012, physicist Frank Wilczek proposed the time crystal: a system that oscillates forever with no external drive. Now a German team has shown that separate time crystals inside a semiconductor can lock into one shared rhythm, up to 40 micrometers apart.

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