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Characterizing the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence of one-dimensional non-Hermitian interacting systems by edge entanglement entropy

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2022-02-16 v2

Abstract

Dramatically different from the Hermitian systems, the conventional Bulk-Boundary Correspondence (BBC) is broken in the non-Hermitian systems. In this article, we use edge entanglement entropy to characterize the topological properties of non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hubbard model. For free Fermions, we study the scaling behavior of entanglement entropy and demonstrate that the edge entanglement entropy is a good indicator to delimit different phases of non-Hermitian systems. We further generalize the edge entanglement entropy to the non-Hermitian interacting Hubbard chain, and obtain the topological phase diagram in the plane of interaction and non-Hermitian hopping amplitudes. It is found that the Hubbard interaction diminishes and weakens the breakdown of Bulk-Boundary Correspondence, which eventually disappears at some critical value of interaction.

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@article{arxiv.2108.00607,
  title  = {Characterizing the Bulk-Boundary Correspondence of one-dimensional non-Hermitian interacting systems by edge entanglement entropy},
  author = {Weitao Chen and Liangtao Peng and Hantao Lu and Xiancong Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.00607},
  year   = {2022}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures