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  • Soft-matter physics
  • Condensed matter theory
  • Quantum gas dynamics

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  • Studying particle systems with soft-core potentials is crucial for understanding colloidal and quantum atomic gases.
  • Equilibrium phases typically maintain continuous translational and dynamic space-time homogeneity.
  • Glassy phenomena are often associated with the absence of these symmetries, usually in out-of-equilibrium systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the equilibrium phases and dynamics of monodisperse particles with soft-core interactions in 2D.
  • To determine if classical systems can exhibit properties typically associated with non-equilibrium or quantum phenomena.
  • To explore the behavior of cluster-glassy crystals under quantum fluctuations and bosonic statistics.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized exact theoretical methods for analysis.
  • Investigated the breaking of continuous translational symmetry.
  • Examined the simultaneous breaking of dynamic space-time homogeneity.

Main Results:

  • Identified an equilibrium low-temperature classical phase that breaks both translational and dynamic space-time symmetries.
  • Observed the formation of an exotic self-assembled cluster crystal.
  • This crystal exhibits liquid-like long-time dynamical properties, analogous to supersolid behavior.

Conclusions:

  • The classical system demonstrates an exotic phase with supersolid-like characteristics.
  • Quantum fluctuations and bosonic statistics have competing effects on cluster-glassy crystals.
  • Zero-point motion destabilizes order, while bosonic statistics can restore it.