Phase Transitions and Generalized Biorthogonal Polarization in Non-Hermitian Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12898v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:08:50 GMT
• Title: Phase Transitions and Generalized Biorthogonal Polarization in Non-Hermitian Systems
• Authors: Elisabet Edvardsson, Flore K. Kunst, Tsuneya Yoshida, Emil J. Bergholtz
• Abstract summary: Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians can be used to describe dissipative systems. We show that a biorthogonal polarization functions as a real-space invariant signaling the presence of boundary states.
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• Abstract: Non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians can be used to describe dissipative systems, and are currently intensively studied in the context of topology. A salient difference between Hermitian and NH models is the breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary correspondence invalidating the use of topological invariants computed from the Bloch bands to characterize boundary modes in generic NH systems. One way to overcome this difficulty is to use the framework of biorthogonal quantum mechanics to define a biorthogonal polarization, which functions as a real-space invariant signaling the presence of boundary states. Here, we generalize the concept of the biorthogonal polarization beyond the previous results to systems with any number of boundary modes, and show that it is invariant under basis transformations as well as local unitary transformations. Additionally, we propose a generalization of a perviously-developed method with which to find all the bulk states of system with open boundaries to NH models. Using the exact solutions in combination with variational states, we elucidate genuinely NH aspects of the interplay between bulk and boundary at the phase transitions.

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