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Non-Hermitian Maryland Model

Quantum Physics 2021-06-30 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Optics

Abstract

Non-Hermitian systems with aperiodic order display phase transitions that are beyond the paradigm of Hermitian physics. Unfortunately, owing to the incommensurability of the potential most of known non-Hermitian models are not integrable. This motivates the search for exactly solvable models, where localization/delocalization phase transitions, mobility edges in complex plane and their topological nature can be unraveled. Here we present an exactly solvable model of quasi crystal, which is a non-pertrurbative non-Hermitian extension of a famous integrable model of quantum chaos proposed by Grempel {\it at al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 49}, 833 (1982)] and dubbed the Maryland model. Contrary to the Hermitian Maryland model, its non-Hermitian extension shows a richer scenario, with a localization-delocalization phase transition via topological mobility edges in complex energy plane.

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@article{arxiv.2106.00230,
  title  = {Non-Hermitian Maryland Model},
  author = {Stefano Longhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00230},
  year   = {2021}
}

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14 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B

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