http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/floquet-time-crystals-could-exist-and.html

Time Crystals in their ground state are moving through time, not space, breaking quantum time translation symmetry.
more detail, sorta layman
http://www.sciencealert.com/time-crystals-might-exist-after-all-and-they-could-break-the-symmetry-of-space-and-time

“The significance of our work is two-fold: on one hand, it demonstrates that time-translation symmetry is not immune to being spontaneously broken,” said coauthor Bela Bauer, a researcher at Microsoft Station Q. “On the other hand, it deepens our understanding that non-equilibrium systems can host many interesting states of matter that cannot exist in equilibrium systems.” Read more
and some more:
rambling nonsense has some fine comments about it here:

 

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