Probing two-body exceptional points in open dissipative systems
Abstract
We study two-body non-Hermitian physics in the context of an open dissipative system depicted by the Lindblad master equation. Adopting a minimal lattice model of a handful of interacting fermions with single-particle dissipation, we show that the non-Hermitian effective Hamiltonian of the master equation gives rise to two-body scattering states with state- and interaction-dependent parity-time transition. The resulting two-body exceptional points can be extracted from the trace-preserving density-matrix dynamics of the same dissipative system with three atoms. Our results not only demonstrate the interplay of PT symmetry and interaction on the exact few-body level, but also serve as a minimal illustration on how key features of non-Hermitian few-body physics can be probed in an open dissipative many-body system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.10139,
title = {Probing two-body exceptional points in open dissipative systems},
author = {Peize Ding and Wei Yi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10139},
year = {2022}
}