English
Related papers

Related papers: Localization Transition in Incommensurate non-Herm…

200 papers

We present a combination of analytical and numerical calculations for the critical behavior of a supersymmetric non-linear $\sigma$-model within the context of the localization transition of a disordered one-electron system. As a result, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas Dupré

Disorder in a 1D quantum lattice induces Anderson localization of the eigenstates and drastically alters transport properties of the lattice. In the original Anderson model, the addition of a periodic driving increases, in a certain range…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-17 O. S. Vershinina , E. A. Kozinov , T. V. Laptyeva , S. V. Denisov , M. V. Ivanchenko

By analyzing the Lyapunov exponent (LE), we develop a rigorous, fundamental scheme for the study of general non-Hermitian quasicrystals with both complex phase factor and non-reciprocal hopping. Specially, the localization-delocalization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-07-07 Yanxia Liu , Qi Zhou , Shu Chen

We investigate the parity- and time-reversal ($\mathcal{PT}$)-symmetry breaking in lattice models in the presence of long-ranged, non-hermitian, $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potentials that remain finite or become divergent in the continuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Derek D. Scott , Avadh Saxena

The use of quantum entanglement to study condensed matter systems has been flourishing in critical systems and topological phases. Additionally, using real-space entanglement entropies and entanglement spectra one can characterize localized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Ian Mondragon-Shem , Mayukh Khan , Taylor L. Hughes

The interaction between non-reciprocity and disorder-free localization has emerged as a fascinating open question. Here, we explore the effects of pseudo mobility edges (MEs) along with different types of eigenstates in a one-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-01-30 Yu-Jun Zhao , Han-Ze Li , Xuyang Huang , Shan-Zhong Li , Jian-Xin Zhong

We introduce a partial state fidelity approach to quantum phase transitions. We consider a superconducting lattice with a magnetic impurity inserted at its centre, and look at the fidelity between partial (either one-site or two-site)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Paunkovic , P. D. Sacramento , P. Nogueira , V. R. Vieira , V. K. Dugaev

We complexify a 1-d potential which exhibits bound, reflecting and free states to study various properties of a non-Hermitian system. This potential turns out a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian potential when one of the parameters becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ananya Ghatak , Raka Dona Ray Mandal , Bhabani Prasad Mandal

We consider a particle governed by a one-dimensional Hamiltonian in which artificial periodic spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman lattice have incommensurate periods. Using best rational approximations to such quasiperiodic Hamiltonian, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-23 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

Transitions from delocalized to localized eigenstates have been extensively studied in both quadratic and interacting models. The delocalized regime typically exhibits diffusion and quantum chaos, and its properties comply with the random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-16 Mateusz Lisiecki , Lev Vidmar , Patrycja Łydżba

We study ground-state quantum entanglement in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model in the presence of a harmonic trap. We focus on two transitions that occur upon increasing the characteristic particle density: the formation of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-20 Yicheng Zhang , Lev Vidmar , Marcos Rigol

Excited state quantum phase transitions (ESQPTs) are generalizations of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) to excited levels. They are associated with local divergences in the density of states. Here, we investigate how the presence of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-27 Lea F. Santos , Marco Távora , Francisco Pérez-Bernal

Motivated by the problem of Many-Body Localization and the recent numerical results for the level and eigenfunction statistics on the random regular graphs, a generalization of the Rosenzweig-Porter random matrix model is suggested that…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-12-29 V. E. Kravtsov , I. M. Khaymovich , E. Cuevas , M. Amini

We provide the first experimental demonstration of defect states in parity-time (PT) symmetric mesh-periodic potentials. Our results indicate that these localized modes can undergo an abrupt phase transition in spite of the fact that they…

We report the existence of algebraically localized eigenstates embedded within the continuum spectrum of 2D non-Hermitian systems with a single impurity. These modes, which we term algebraic states in continuum (AICs), decay algebraically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ao Yang , Kai Zhang , Chen Fang

Random defects do not constitute the unique source of electron localization in two dimensions. Lattice quasidisorder generated from two inplane superimposed rotated, main and secondary, square lattices, namely monolayers where moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Christian Madroñero , Gustavo Alexis Dominguez Castro , Rosario Paredes

When one applies a type of non-Hermitian effect, constant imaginary vector potential, to disordered systems, delocalization is induced even in two or lower dimension. By using the non-Hermitian induced transition as a probe, We propose a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-10-23 Tsunenao Kuwae , Nobuhiko Taniguchi

We report a novel mechanism of boundary-sensitive PT symmetry breaking in one-dimensional Floquet systems. By designing a time-periodic driving protocol, we realize a Floquet Hamiltonian that is Hermitian under periodic boundary conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Bo Li , He-Ran Wang , Fei Song

We study a system where the two edges of a non-Hermitian lattice with asymmetric nearest-neighbor hopping are connected with two Hermitian lattices with symmetric nearest-neighbor hopping. In the absence of those Hermitian lattices, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-11 Ranjan Modak

We study the hierarchical analogue of power-law random band matrices, a symmetric ensemble of random matrices with independent entries whose variances decay exponentially in the metric induced by the tree topology on $\mathbb{N}$. We map…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-19 Per von Soosten , Simone Warzel