Abstract
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is responsible for rich quantum phenomena from crystalline structures to superconductivity. This concept was boldly extended to the breaking of time translation, opening an avenue to finding exotic phases of quantum matter with collective time modulation and correlation. Here we report that a thermally open quantum ensemble manifests in the dual space of imaginary time with crystalline ordering due to a bath-induced retarded interaction. Exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations are performed to show that this imaginary time crystal phase exhibits characteristic ground-state and thermal properties absent in conventional quantum manybody systems, especially the striking temperature-oscillating behavior of its physical observables.
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