Using a diamond as a quantum simulator, scientists created a rondeau time crystal, which exhibited both long-range temporal order and short-time disorder. These crystals, the thinking goes, could form stable forms of quantum memory and error-free quantum circuits, drastically improving a quantum computer’s performance. Case in point, a new study published in the journal explores the concept of a rondeau time crystal, a new phase of matter that contains both long-range temporal order and short-time disorder, according to Phys.org . With microwave pulses boosting the polarization were combined with “protective ‘spin-locking’ pulses with strategically timed polarization-flipping pulses,” Phys.org reports, Moon and his team created a rondeau crystal. “Our experiments open a promising new avenue to investigate temporal order, demonstrating the long-lived stable coexistence of long-range temporal order and micromotion disorder at short timescales.”