Wave Coarsening Drives Time Crystallization in Mechatronic Metamaterials
Jonas Veenstra
Jack Binysh
Vito Seinen
Roger Solé Borràs
Rutger Naber
Damien Robledo-Poisson
Andres Hunt
Wim van Saarloos
Anton Souslov
Corentin Coulais
Abstract
Wave coarsening in one- and two-dimensional mechatronic metamaterials leads to synchronized time-crystalline states. Experiments and theory reveal growing wavelengths, periods and amplitudes, while friction arrests the process and produces edge-localized waves.
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Nature