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Main Authors: Mo, Liang-Hong, Xiao, Zhenyu, Moessner, Roderich, Zhao, Hongzheng
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12490
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author Mo, Liang-Hong
Xiao, Zhenyu
Moessner, Roderich
Zhao, Hongzheng
author_facet Mo, Liang-Hong
Xiao, Zhenyu
Moessner, Roderich
Zhao, Hongzheng
contents Potential disorder in 1D leads to Anderson localization of the entire spectrum. Upon sacrificing hermiticity by adding non-reciprocal hopping, the non-Hermitian skin effect competes with localization. We find another route for delocalization, which involves imaginary potential disorder. While an entirely random potential generally still leads to localization, imposing minimal spatial structure to the disorder can protect delocalization: it endows the concomitant transfer matrix with an SU(2) structure, whose compactness in turn translates into an infinite localization length. The fraction of delocalized states can be tuned by the choice of boundary conditions.
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spellingShingle Non-Hermitian delocalization in 1D via emergent compactness
Mo, Liang-Hong
Xiao, Zhenyu
Moessner, Roderich
Zhao, Hongzheng
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
Potential disorder in 1D leads to Anderson localization of the entire spectrum. Upon sacrificing hermiticity by adding non-reciprocal hopping, the non-Hermitian skin effect competes with localization. We find another route for delocalization, which involves imaginary potential disorder. While an entirely random potential generally still leads to localization, imposing minimal spatial structure to the disorder can protect delocalization: it endows the concomitant transfer matrix with an SU(2) structure, whose compactness in turn translates into an infinite localization length. The fraction of delocalized states can be tuned by the choice of boundary conditions.
title Non-Hermitian delocalization in 1D via emergent compactness
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12490