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Non-Hermitian phase transition and eigenstate localization induced by asymmetric coupling

P. Wang, L. Jin, and Z. Song
Phys. Rev. A 99, 062112 – Published 19 June 2019

Abstract

We investigate a uniformly coupled non-Hermitian system with asymmetric coupling amplitude. The asymmetric coupling equals to a symmetric coupling threaded by an imaginary gauge field. In a closed configuration, the imaginary gauge field leads to an imaginary magnetic flux, which induces a non-Hermitian phase transition. For an open boundary, the imaginary gauge field results in an eigenstate localization. The eigenstates under Dirac and biorthogonal norms and the scaling laws are quantitatively investigated to show the affect of asymmetric coupling induced one-way amplification. However, the imaginary magnetic flux does not inevitably induce the non-Hermitian phase transition for systems without translation invariance, which is elucidated from the non-Hermitian phase transition in the non-Hermitian ring with a single coupling defect. Our findings provide insights into the non-Hermitian phase transition and one-way localization.

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  • Received 5 March 2019
  • Revised 14 May 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.062112

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

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Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Atomic, Molecular & OpticalGeneral PhysicsCondensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

P. Wang, L. Jin*, and Z. Song

  • School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

  • *jinliang@nankai.edu.cn
  • songtc@nankai.edu.cn

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Vol. 99, Iss. 6 — June 2019

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