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Loss-induced universal one-way transport in periodically driven systems

Quantum Physics 2024-05-10 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we show that a periodically driven Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper model with imbalanced on-site gain/loss supports universal one-way transport that is immune to impurities and independent of initial excitations. We reveal the underlying mechanism that the periodic driving gives rise to the non-Hermitian skin effect in the effective Floquet Hamiltonian, thereby causing universal non-reciprocal transport. Additionally, we probe the time-average decay rate of the propagator under long-time bulk dynamics as a signature of the Floquet emergent non-Hermitian skin effect. Our results provide a feasible and controllable way to realize universal one-way transport that is easily accessible to experiments.

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@article{arxiv.2306.10000,
  title  = {Loss-induced universal one-way transport in periodically driven systems},
  author = {Chang Shu and Kai Zhang and Kai Sun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.10000},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 14 figures