Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate vibration phase reversal transition in a discrete time-translational symmetry broken cold atomic system by the application of a pulsed bias-field opposite to the existing phase of the symmetry broken vibrational state. The reversal transition depends on the strength and the duration of the applied pulse. Consequently, we obtain a phase boundary with a divergent relaxation time due to the critical slowdown behavior. Interestingly, the dependence of the dynamic phase boundary and relaxation time on the noise-induced switching rate implies that the system is out of equilibrium, though not so in the Ising model of a spin system.
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