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Yang-Baxter Integrability and Exceptional-Point Structure in Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum Impurity Systems

Mathematical Physics 2026-05-01 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We develop a mathematically controlled framework for Yang--Baxter integrability in pseudo-Hermitian quantum impurity systems arising from periodic driving of a Dirac-like bath. The effective impurity Hamiltonian possesses a dynamically generated \PT\PT symmetry and exhibits exceptional points (EPs) where it becomes non-diagonalizable. We construct the Yang--Baxter generator as a rank-one operator on the two-particle contact space, built from biorthogonal impurity eigenvectors, and prove that it satisfies the Temperley-Lieb relations. Its standard Baxterization gives an RR-matrix, an RLL relation, an RTT structure,and a commuting family of transfer matrices. At the exceptional point(EP), the semisimple biorthogonal eigenvector construction is replaced by a Jordan-chain contact vector, while the Hamiltonian itself develops a nilpotent Jordan block. Within this framework we derive biorthogonal Bethe equations and show that the Gaudin matrix becomes defective at the EP, establishing that the smallest singular value σN(G)0\sigma_N(G)\to0 at the EP while remaining \OO(1)\OO(1) at the Kondo critical point,providing a sharp algebraic diagnostic. We further prove that Bethe rapidities exhibit square-root coalescence and Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 monodromy at the EP, reflecting the underlying Jordan structure, and that the effective pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian emerges from the periodically driven microscopic system by adiabatic coarse graining of off-shell angular-momentum modes, with corrections controlled by the auxiliary-mode gap.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2604.21547,
  title  = {Yang-Baxter Integrability and Exceptional-Point Structure in Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum Impurity Systems},
  author = {Vinayak M. Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21547},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

v2: 32 pages, 1 figure. Corrected EP R-matrix (R^EP=Pi, permutation), EP diagnostic (sigma_N(G) not kappa|det G|), and two symmetry errors. Rotating-frame derivation replaces Floquet-Magnus. Explicit 4x4 R-matrix added

R2 v1 2026-07-01T12:32:17.298Z