Abstract
Dissipative time crystals can appear in spin systems, when the ${Z}_{2}$ symmetry of the Hamiltonian is broken by the environment, and the square of total spin operator ${S}^{2}$ is conserved. In this paper, we relax the latter condition and show that time-translation-symmetry-breaking collective oscillations persist, in the thermodynamic limit, even in the absence of spin symmetry. We engineer an ad hoc Lindbladian using power-law-decaying spin operators and show that time-translation-symmetry breaking appears when the decay exponent obeys $0<\ensuremath{\eta}\ensuremath{\le}1$. This model shows a surprisingly rich phase diagram, including the time-crystal phase as well as first-order, second-order, and continuous transitions of the fixed points. We study the phase diagram and the magnetization dynamics in the mean-field approximation. We prove that this approximation is quantitatively accurate, when $0<\ensuremath{\eta}<1$ and the thermodynamic limit is taken, because the system does not develop sizable quantum fluctuations, if the Gaussian approximation is considered.
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