Effective impurity behavior emergent from non-Hermitian proximity effect

Autor: Deguang Wu, Jiasong Chen, Wei Su, Rui Wang, Baigeng Wang, D. Y. Xing
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Communications Physics, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-023-01282-1
Popis: Abstract Non-Hermitian boundaries commonly take place in many open quantum systems locally coupled to a surrounding environment. Here, we reveal a type of non-Hermitian effect induced by non-Hermitian boundaries, the non-Hermitian proximity effect (NHPE), which describes the penetration of non-Hermiticity from the boundary into the bulk. For gapped quantum systems, the NHPE generates in-gap states with imaginary eigenenergies, termed “imaginary in-gap states". The imaginary in-gap states are localized at the system boundary and decay into the bulk, analogous to the behaviors of the conventional impurity states. However, in contrast to impurity states, the imaginary in-gap states exhibit distinct dynamical behaviors under time-evolution. Moreover, they are physically manifested as corner modes under open boundaries, as a combined result of the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE) and NHPE. These results not only uncover implicit similarities between quantum systems with non-Hermitian boundaries and impurity physics, but also point to intriguing non-Hermitian phenomena broadly relevant to open quantum systems.
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