Non-Hermitian Mott Skin Effect

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Main Authors: Yoshida, Tsuneya, Zhang, Song-Bo, Neupert, Titus, Kawakami, Norio
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Published: 2023
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author Yoshida, Tsuneya
Zhang, Song-Bo
Neupert, Titus
Kawakami, Norio
author_facet Yoshida, Tsuneya
Zhang, Song-Bo
Neupert, Titus
Kawakami, Norio
contents We propose a novel type of skin effects in non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems which we dub a non-Hermitian Mott skin effect. This phenomenon is induced by the interplay between strong correlations and the non-Hermitian point-gap topology. The Mott skin effect induces extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions only in the spin degree of freedom (i.e., the charge distribution is not sensitive to boundary conditions), which is in sharp contrast to the ordinary non-Hermitian skin effect in non-interacting systems. Concretely, we elucidate that a bosonic non-Hermitian chain exhibits the Mott skin effect in the strongly correlated regime by closely examining an effective Hamiltonian. The emergence of the Mott skin effect is also supported by numerical diagonalization of the bosonic chain. The difference between the ordinary non-Hermitian skin effect and the Mott skin effect is also reflected in the time-evolution of physical quantities; under the time-evolution spin accumulation is observed while the charge distribution remains spatially uniform.
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spellingShingle Non-Hermitian Mott Skin Effect
Yoshida, Tsuneya
Zhang, Song-Bo
Neupert, Titus
Kawakami, Norio
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
We propose a novel type of skin effects in non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems which we dub a non-Hermitian Mott skin effect. This phenomenon is induced by the interplay between strong correlations and the non-Hermitian point-gap topology. The Mott skin effect induces extreme sensitivity to the boundary conditions only in the spin degree of freedom (i.e., the charge distribution is not sensitive to boundary conditions), which is in sharp contrast to the ordinary non-Hermitian skin effect in non-interacting systems. Concretely, we elucidate that a bosonic non-Hermitian chain exhibits the Mott skin effect in the strongly correlated regime by closely examining an effective Hamiltonian. The emergence of the Mott skin effect is also supported by numerical diagonalization of the bosonic chain. The difference between the ordinary non-Hermitian skin effect and the Mott skin effect is also reflected in the time-evolution of physical quantities; under the time-evolution spin accumulation is observed while the charge distribution remains spatially uniform.
title Non-Hermitian Mott Skin Effect
topic Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Quantum Gases
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14111